"What stultifies the common people is not the lack of instruction, but the [uncommon people] belief in the inferiority of their intelligence"
Jacques Rancière

HERVÉ VARENNE

Professor of Education

Programs in Anthropology and Education & Applied Anthropology
Department of International and Transcultural Studies
Teachers College, Columbia University

Fields of Research

• Culture Theory and structural semiotics.
• Anthropology and education,
• Discourse and conversational analysis, ethnomethodology.
• American culture in the United States and around the world
• Education in families and communities

Activities