The class meets on Tuesdays, from 5:10 to 6:50 in TBA.

[where to look for the required and recommended readings]

I - Introduction: on (not) Defining Education.

• Cremin, Lawrence "Public Education and the Education of the Public" Teachers College Record 77:1-12, 1975.

• Varenne, Hervé Introduction and Chapter 1 of Educating in life: ethnographies of challenging new normals. Routledge (2019).

recommended:

Cremin, Lawrence Public Education (1976)
Ingold, Tim Anthropology and/as education. New York: Routledge. (2018)
Lave, Jean "A comparative approach to educational forms and learning processes." Anthropology and Education Quarterly 13 (2): 181-187. 1982
McClintock, Robbie On (Not) Defining Education. In Theoretical Perspectives on Comprehensive Education: The Way Forward. Edited by Hervé Varenne, Edmund W. Gordon, and Linda Lin, pp. 25-57. The Mellen Press: forthcoming
Selections from George Spindler, ed. Education and anthropology Stanford: Stanford University Press. 1955. (everything that is linked from the book)
Varenne, Hervé "Difficult collective deliberations: anthropological notes towards a theory of education." Teachers College Record (2007).

II - Framework and issues: knowledge, ignorance, practice

• Lareau, Annette Home advantage: Social class and parental intervention in elementary education. New York: The Falmer Press. 1989 (Chapters 1, 3, 4, 6, [9])

recommended:

Coleman, James and et al. Equality of educational opportunity Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office. 1966
Bourdieu, Pierre and Jean-Claude Passeron Reproduction in education, society and culture Tr. by R. Nice.. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage 1977 [1970]
Lewis, Oscar "The culture of poverty." Scientific American 215: 19-25. 1966
Ogbu, John "Low school performance as an adaptation: The case of Blacks in Stockton, California." in Minority status and schooling. Edited by M. Gibson and J. Ogbu, 249-285. New York: Garland Publishing 1991b
Willis, Paul Learning to labor: How working class kids get working class jobs. New York: Columbia University Press. 1977

• Gundaker, Grey "Hidden Education among African Americans during Slavery."in Anthropological perspectives on education. Edited by H. Varenne and E. Gordon, 53-74. Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press 2008 [2007]

• Rancière, Jacques The ignorant school master. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press 1999 [1987] (Chapters 1, 2, 3)

recommended:

de Certeau, Michel The practice of everyday life. Berkeley: University of California Press. 1984 [1980]
Garfinkel, Harold Ethnomethodology's program Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. 2002. (Chapter 6 on instructing)
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice The prose of the world. Tr. by J. O'Neil . Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press 1973 [1969].
Ortega y Gasset, Jose "The difficulty of reading." Diogenes 7, 28:1-17. 1959
Plato Meno

• Lave, Jean and Etienne Wenger Situated learning: Legitimate peripheral participation. New York: Cambridge University Press. 1991. (Chapters 1, 2, 4)

• Redfield, Robert The little community. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1960 [1956] (Chapters 1, 2, 3)

recommended:

Arensberg, Conrad and Solon Kimball Culture and community. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World. 1965
Lave and McDermott "Alienated (labor) learning"
Redfield, Robert The little community. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1960 [1956] (Chapters 8, 10 as well as all the other chapters)

III - Topics and their settings

• Gilmore, Perry Kisisi (our language); The story of Colin and Sadiki.Malden, MA: Blackwell. 2016 (particularly Chapters 1-3)

alternate ethnography (to be presented by Mako Miura):
Schieffelin, Bambi The Give and Take of Everyday Life: Language Socialization of Kaluli Children. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1990

recommended:

Mauss, Marcel "Techniques of the body." Economy and Society 2:70-88. 1973 [ 1934]
Ochs, Elinor Culture and language development: Language acquisition and language socialization in a Samoan village. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1988
Miller, Peggy Amy, Wendy, and Beth: Learning Language in South Baltimore. Austin: University of Texas Press. 1982 (Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4) •

• Kalmar, Tomás Illegal alphabets and adult literacy: Latino migrants crossing the linguistic border. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. 2001

alternate ethnography (to be presented by Youtian Lee):
• Heath, Shirley Brice Ways with words: Language, life, and work in communities and classrooms. New York: Cambridge University Press. 1983 (Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8)

recommended:

Philips, Susan The invisible culture: Communication in classroom and community on the Warm Springs Indian reservation. New York: Longman. 1983
Conklin, Harold "Bamboo literacy on Mindoro" Pacific Discovery 2:4-11.

IV - Schooling, inevitably

• Mehan, Bud Learning lessons: Social organization in the classroom. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 1979

alternate ethnography (to be presented by TBA):

• McDermott, Ray

and Jeffrey Aron "Pirandello in the classroom: On the possibility of equal educational opportunity in American culture." in Futures of education. Edited by M. Reynolds, 41-64. Reston, VA: Council on Exceptional Children 1978
and Kenneth Gospodinoff "Social context for ethnic borders and school failure." in Nonverbal behavior. Edited by A. Wolfgang, 175-195. New York: Academic Press 1979
and Jason Raley "Toward a natural history of human ingenuity." in Handbook of visual research. Edited by E. Margolis and L. Pauwels. Sage. 2011
(More on 'Rosa')

• Tobin, Joseph, J. and David Y.H. Wu, Dana H. Davidson Preschool in three cultures: Japan, China, and the United States. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. 1989

alternate ethnography (to be presented by TBA):
• Fuller, C, J The renewal of the priesthood: Modernity and traditionalism in a South Indian temple Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 2003 (chapters 1,2,3,4)

recommended:

Anderson-Levitt, Kathryn Teaching cultures: Knowledge for teaching first grade in France and the United States Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press. 2002

• Koyama, Jill Making failure pay: For-profit tutoring, high-stake testing, and public schools. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. 2010

alternate ethnography (to be presented by Léa Barouch):
• Page, Reba Lower-track classrooms: A curricular and cultural perspective. New York: Teachers College Press. 1991

recommended:

Foucault, Michael Discipline and punish. Tr. by A. Sheridan. New York: Penguin Books. 1978 [1975]
Varenne (with Shelley Goldman and Rosemary Rizzo-Tolk) Chapters 4 and 5 of Varenne and McDermott Successful failure Boulder, CO: Westview. 1998

• Moffatt, Michael Coming of age in New Jersey: College and American culture. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. 1989

alternate ethnography (to be presented by Esther Fan):
• Holland, Dorothy and Margaret Eisenhart Educated in romance: Women, achievement and college culture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1990.

recommended:

Gershon, Ilana The Break-Up 2.0: Disconnecting Over New Media. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. 2010
Posecznick, Alex Selling hope and college: Merit, markets, and recruitment in an unranked school. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. 2017
Sabin, Portia Truths, universally acknowledged: Friendship and romance as education between college students in America Ph.D. dissertation. New York: Columbia University 2004

V - Education (before, after, beyond, beneath, around) schooling

• Lave, Jean and Etienne Wenger Situated learning: Legitimate peripheral participation. New York: Cambridge University Press. 1991. (Chapter 3)

• Oliveira, Gabrielle and Hervé Varenne "Mothers, educating themselves about their children's futures in Mexico and the United States" (Chapter 7 of Educating in life: ethnographies of challenging new normals. Routledge (2019).)

alternate ethnography (to be presented by Muyan Guo):
• Jordan, Brigitte Birth in four cultures: A crosscultural investigation of childbirth in Yucatan, Holland, Sweden and the United States. Second Edition. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press.

recommended:

Bartlett, Lesley " Human Capital or Human Connections? The Cultural Meanings of Education in Brazil"in Anthropological perspectives on education. Edited by H. Varenne and E. Gordon, 75-98. Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press 2008 [2007]
Gershon, Ilana, ed. A world of work: Imagined manuals for real jobs. Ithaca, NY: Cornelly University Press. 2015
Lave, Jean Cognition in practice: Mind, mathematics, and culture in everyday life. New York: Cambridge University Press. 1988 (Chapters 3, 5, 6, 7)
Lave, Jean and Michael Murtaugh, and Olivia de la Rocha "The dialectic of arithmetic in grocery shopping" in Everyday cognition. Edited by B. Rogoff and J. Lave, 67-94. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press 1984
Burton, Richard, R., John Seely Brown, and Gerhard Fisher "Skiing as a model of instruction" in Everyday cognition. Edited by B. Rogoff and J. Lave, 139-150. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press 1984

• Groce, Nora E. and John W. Whiting Everyone Here Spoke Sign Language.

alternate ethnography (to be presented by Caitlyn Kanemitsu):
• report on Juliette de Wolfe's Parents of children with autism: An ethnography. New York: Palgrave. 2014. (the dissertation on which this is based is available on line.

recommended:

McDermott, R. and Varenne, H. "Culture as disability" Anthropology and Education Quarterly 26: 324-348. 1995. (expanded version published on line by Serendip)
Murphy, Robert The body silent. New York: Henry Holt & Co..
Stratton, Alison " Hard of Hearing in Sweden: Educating about and for Pathology." in Anthropological perspectives on education. Edited by H. Varenne and E. Gordon, 239-260. Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press 2008 [2007]

• Verrips, Jojada, and Birgit Meyer "Kwaku's car: The struggles and stories of a Ghanaian long-distance taxi-driver." in Car cultures. Edited by D. Miller, 153-184. New York: Berg 2001

• Sammadar, Sunanda, and Hervé Varenne "To Not/Wear or to Not Not/Wear Hijab: The Girls and Boys of Bangladesh Avenue, in America" (Chapter 8 of Educating in life: ethnographies of challenging new normals. Routledge (2019).)

recommended:

Arora, Payal Dot Com mantra: Social computing in the Central Himalayas. Burlington, VT: Ashgate. 2010
Kemble, Amanda, et al. How to be a cell phone repair technician. in A world of work. Edited by I. Gershon. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. pp. 179-193. 2015

• Varenne, Hervé "Education, Cultural Production, and Figuring Out What to Do Next" in Companion to the Anthropology of Education. Edited by Mica Pollock and Bradley Levinson. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. (with the collaboration of J. Koyama). pp. 50-64

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