this class meets on Tuesdays, from 5:10 to 6:50 in 465 Dodge
[where to look for the required and recommended readings]
I - Introduction: Definitions of Education.
September 9th -- The major issue: when is education?
• Cremin, Lawrence "Public Education and the Education of the Public" Teachers College Record 77:1-12, 1975.
September 16th -- Definitions and consequences
• Varenne, Hervé "Difficult collective deliberations: anthropological notes towards a theory of education." Teachers College Record (2007)
recommended:
- Cremin, Lawrence Public Education (1976)
- Garfinkel, Harold Ethnomethodology's program Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. 2002. (Chapter 6 on instructing)
- Lave, Jean "A comparative approach to educational forms and learning processes." Anthropology and Education Quarterly 13 (2): 181-187. 1982
- Selections from George Spindler, ed. Education and anthropology Stanford: Stanford University Press. 1955. (everything that is linked from the book)
II - Framework and issues
September 23rd -- Contrasting ignorance: disabling
• Lareau, Annette Home advantage: Social class and parental intervention in elementary education. New York: The Falmer Press. 1989 (Chapters 1, 6, 9)
alternate ethnography:
• Ogbu, John The next generation: An ethnography of education in an urban neighborhood New York: Academic Press. 1974
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 5: 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
September 30 -- Contrasting ignorance: enabling
• Gundaker, Grey "Hidden Education among African Americans during Slavery." Teachers College Record (2007)
• Ranciere, 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]
- Merleau-Ponty, Maurice The prose of the world. Tr. by J. O'Neil . Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press 1973 [1969].
- Plato Meno
October 7 -- Communities of educational practice
• 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 - Cases
October 14 -- Instruction into languages and speaking
• Miller, Peggy Amy, Wendy, and Beth: Learning Language in South Baltimore. Austin: University of Texas Press. 1982
alternate ethnography:
- Schieffelin, Bambi The Give and Take of Everyday Life: Language Socialization of Kaluli Children. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1990
recommended:
- Ochs, Elinor Culture and language development: Language acquisition and language socialization in a Samoan village. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1988
October 21 -- Instruction into telling and reading
• 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)
alternate ethnography:
- Kalmar, Tomás Illegal alphabets and adult literacy: Latino migrants crossing the linguistic border. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. 2001
recommended:
- Philips, Susan The invisible culture: Communication in classroom and community on the Warm Springs Indian reservation. New York: Longman. 1983
October 28 -- Classrooms: interactional structures
• Mehan, Bud Learning lessons: Social organization in the classroom. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 1979
alternate ethnography:
- 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 Henry Tylbor "On the necessity of collusion in conversation." Text 3, 3: 277-297. 1983
November 4 -- Classrooms: comparative perspectives
• 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:
- 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
November 11 -- High school (dis-)organization and the everyday construction of academic failure
• Page, Reba Lower-track classrooms: A curricular and cultural perspective. New York: Teachers College Press. 1991 (chapters 1, 2, 3, 6, 7)
alternate ethnography:
- Varenne (with Shelley Goldman and Rosemary Rizzo-Tolk) Chapters 4 and 5 of Varenne and McDermott Successful failure Boulder, CO: Westview. 1998
recommended:
- McDermott, R. and Varenne, H. "Culture as disability" Anthropology and Education Quarterly 26: 324-348. 1995. (expanded version published on line by Serendip)
November 18 -- College: friendship, love (academics?)
• Moffatt, Michael Coming of age in New Jersey: College and American culture. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. 1989
alternate ethnography:
- Holland, Dorothy and Margaret Eisenhart
Educated in romance: Women, achievement and college culture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1990
recommended:
- Sabin, Portia Truths, universally acknowledged: Friendship and romance as education between college students in America Ph.D. dissertation. New York: Columbia University 2004
November 25 -- Other routes to adult participation
• Bartlett, Lesley " Human Capital or Human Connections? The Cultural Meanings of Education in Brazil" Teachers College Record (2007)
• Lave, Jean Cognition in practice: Mind, mathematics, and culture in everyday life. New York: Cambridge University Press. 1988 (Chapters 3, 5, 6, 7)
recommended:
- 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
December 2 -- Education into disability: compulsion and resistance
• Lave, Jean and Etienne Wenger Situated learning: Legitimate peripheral participation. New York: Cambridge University Press. 1991. (Chapter 3)
• Stratton, Alison " Hard of Hearing in Sweden: Educating about and for Pathology." Teachers College Record (2007)
alternate ethnography:
- 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:
- McDermott, R. and Varenne, H. "Culture as disability" Anthropology and Education Quarterly 26: 324-348. 1995. (expanded version published on line by Serendip)
December 9 -- Education into ecological adaptation ("development")
• 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
• Aporta, Claudio, and Eric Higgs "Satellite culture." Current Anthropology 46 (5): 729-753. 2005
• Arora, Payal " Karaoke for social and cultural change." Information, communication & Ethics 3: 121-130. 2006
recommended:
December 16 -- Conclusion
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