Research Handbook on the Anthropology of Education

Edited by Margaret Eisenhart, Distinguished Professor Emerita of Educational Anthropology and Research Methods, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA

‘This Research Handbook gifts us a powerful and unique dossier on the anthropology of education as approached by experts with a plurality of perspectives in global context. With deep theoretical reflections, tangible examples of creative and innovative approaches to ethnography and teaching, this book shows us anthropology of education in action.’

• ContentsPART I INTRODUCTION1 Anthropology of education: past, present, emergent 2Margaret Eisenhart2 The power of ethnography to open worlds different from your own 5Margarita del OlmoPART II ADVANCING ANTHROPOLOGY OF EDUCATION3 The anthropocene as challenge to anthropology of education 16Christoph Wulf4 The road not taken? (Re)directing educational anthropology towardcultural processes of attention, becoming, and responsible agency 26Katherine Richardson Bruna5 Using anthropology to make schools more human 39Peter Demerath6 Anthropology of education and Cassandra’s dilemma 47Edmund (“Ted”) Hamann7 Capturing cultural change: approaches for attending to the creation andtransformation of cultural worlds 57Tricia NieszPART III EDUCATIONAL JUSTICE, INEQUALITY, AND POLICY INANTHROPOLOGY OF EDUCATION8 Analyzing research for education justice with meta-ethnography 69Dennis Beach9 “Access denied”: interrogating how inequality and injustice are producedin educational policymaking contexts 81Elena Aydarova10 Dealing with diversity in anthropology of education: some critical notes 93Adela Franzé Mudanó11 Space in anthropology and education research 103Aprille Phillips and Tricia Gray12 Learning and development in economies of care: a reading of researchpractices toward intergenerational equity 112Katie Headrick TaylorPART IV CHALLENGES TO CONVENTIONAL PRACTICES13 Anthropology in the United States for America and beyond 124Hervé Varenne14 Avoiding unthropology and rigor: remembering to put people first 136Nicholas Limerick and Grey Gundaker15 School education complicates complexity: elements to enhanceanthropological research on schooling 147Ángel Díaz de Rada16 Discomforting coherence: how and why should we keep studyingappropriation in educational processes 159Susana Ayala17 Avoiding the pendulum: contributions of anthropology to understandingthe production of knowledge in the contemporary world 171Ana PadawerPART V CHALLENGES TO CONVENTIONAL METHODS18 Toward participatory and educative research practices in anthropology andeducation1 182Frederick Erickson19 Multi-situated anthropology of education in international settings 190Lesley Bartlett, Ariel Borns, Jonathan Marino and Claudia M. Triana20 Cross-disciplinary research in the anthropology of education 202Jessica Sujata Chandras21 Critical relationality and relational accountability in educationalanthropology research 213Joaquín M.S. Noguera and Teresa L. McCarty22 Mindful approaches to seeing possibilities: from critical to transformativeeducational ethnography 224Marjorie Elaine23 Rethinking position statements in ethnographic research 235Jacqueline M. Manzo, Danielle N. Aguilar and Katherine Schultz24 Researchers’ positionalities: conducting team ethnography for educationalresearch 246Lu Liu and Sophia L. ÁngelesPART VI NEW DIRECTIONS IN PRACTICES AND METHODS25 Fugitive practices: researching learning, social marginalization, andpersonhood 258Diane M. Hoffman26 Centering lives in between: participatory approaches to ethnography withdiaspora youth 265Andrea Dyrness27 Analyses of power in designs for learning 276A. Susan Jurow and Ilana S. Horn28 Co-designing in relation for transformational practice: storied vignettes ofco-learning ethnic studies pedagogies with educators 289Josephine H. Pham, Christina Hewko, Emanuel Suarez Jimenez andIan Slattery29 Intimacy in and with data: affective landscapes of learning and doingeducational research 302Sarah El Halwany and Jrène Rahm30 Fostering community-sustaining pedagogies through STEAM education 312Cory Buxton31 Methodological innovations for collaborating with undergraduate STEMstudents in conducting ethnographic research 323Jennifer Radoff and Chandra Turpen32 Affordances of longitudinal and latitudinal case studies in IndigenousSTEAM (ISTEAM) education 336Nikki Barry and Megan Bang33 Mapping ways forward: centering youth knowledges in education’s spatialturn 348Yaa Oparebea Ampofo and Khrysta A. EvansPART VII INNOVATIVE FORMS OF REPRESENTATION IN ANTHROPOLOGYOF EDUCATION34 Bearing witness through creative expression: ethical ethnography for thefuture 362Thea Renda Abu El-Haj and Ellen Skilton35 Straight work and the skin horse: drawings and comics and how to usethem in the anthropology of education 372Sally Pirie36 AI (artifical intelligence) in anthropological education: a design-inspiredpedagogical approach 406Matt Artz37 Making meaning of and with artificial intelligence: digital materiality andmultimodality in education ethnography 420Yun Dai and Ziyan LinPART VIIICONCLUSION38 Anthropology on education 433Margaret Eisenhart