Where we are: Struggles and challenges

Plenary session #2 -- Saturday October 19 -- 10-12 (Milbank Chapel)

 

By the late 1960s, anthropologists had started working on an agenda of research and advocacy that addressed many of the concerns of our professional audiences about human development and cognition, classrooms, school organization, etc., both in the United States and abroad. By the 1970s, this research blossomed across the country and the Council on Anthropology and Education became one of the larger sub-associations within the American Anthropological Association. In many schools of education, methods inspired by ethnography and qualitative sociology became the dominant mode of research. We must consider how the field evolved during the following decades, both in relation to its audiences in professional and policy circles, and in relation to major developments in the discipline itself.

  • Nancy Hornberger (University of Pennsylvania, GSE)
  • Kathy Hall (University of Pennsylvania, GSE)
  • Peter Demerath (University of Minnesota)
  • Harrington, Charles (Teachers College, Columbia University)

 

 

October 15, 2013