Foreword to the series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i
Acknowledgement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii
GENERAL INTRODUCTION
HERVÉ VARENNE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Alternative Anthropological Perspectives on Education Framework
FRAMEWORK
LAWRENCE A. CREMIN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Public Education and the Education of the Public
HERVÉ VARENNE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Difficult Collective Deliberations: Anthropological Notes Toward a Theory of Education
PART I – LOCAL EDUCATION INTO CULTURAL CONDITIONS
HERVÉ VARENNE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Introduction to Part I: Local Education into Cultural Conditions
GREY GUNDAKER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Hidden Education among African Americans during Slavery
LESLEY BARTLETT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Human Capital or Human Connections? The Cultural Meanings of Education in Brazil
TRACY JOHNSON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Enclothing Identity: A Hmong Girl’s Journey into the Politics of Identification in Thailand
FIDA ADELY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Is Music ‛Haram’? Jordanian Girls Educating Each Other About Nation, Faith and Gender in School
PORTIA SABIN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
On Sentimental Education among American College Students
PART II – RENEWED EDUCATIVE CONSTITUTIONS OF FUTURE CONDITIONS
HERVÉ VARENNE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Introduction to Part II: Renewed Educative Constitutions of Future ConditionsANNE LORIMER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
The Cockpit’s Empty Chair: Education through Appropriating Alienation at a Chicago Technology Museum
LINDA LIN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
(Mis-) Education into American Racism
JAMES MULLOOLY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
Regrading the Eighth Grade: Disciplining those who Discipline in a Jesuit Middle School of the American Midwest
ALISON STRATTON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
Hard of Hearing in Sweden: Educating about and for Pathology
ILANA GERSHON AND SOLONAIMA COLLINS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261
Outspoken Indigenes and Nostalgic Migrants: Maori and Samoan Educating Performances in an Aotoearoa New Zealand Cultural Festival
DISCUSSION
RAY MCDERMOTT AND JASON RALEY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285
From John Dewey to an Anthropology of EducationED GORDON AND MICHAEL REBELL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301
Toward a Comprehensive System of Education i
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
This volume is a reprint of the July 2007 issue of the Teachers College Record guest edited by Hervé Varenne. The text of this reprint is identical to that of the issue except for the correction of a few minor typographical errors. The editor wants to thank again the Teachers College Record for the forum its editor, Professor Gary Natriello, first gave to the efforts of all those who collaborated on this volume. The editor also wants to thank the Teachers College Record for giving the permission for this reprinting.