Anthropology and Education

The Early Years

Setting the problematics: culture, class, and institutions

The word 'education' indexes what Cremin, later, refered to as the "deliberate and systematic" aspect of adult work with children. While this is useful in distinguishing work in anthropology and education from work in enculturation (or socialization) that I am not including here, it can be very dangerous if it equates 'education' with 'schooling' (and particularly Euro-American schooling) at the expense of other settings of deliberation, from families and peer groups, to apprenticeships, etc.

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