Companion to the Anthropology of Education

Bradley A. Levinson is Professor of Education and Adjunct Professor of Anthropology and Latino and Latin American Studies at Indiana University.He is the author of We are All Equal: Student Culture and Identity at a Mexican Secondary School (2001) and Beyond Critique: Exploring Critical Social Theories and Education (2010), and editor or co-editor of Policy as Practice: Toward a Comparative Sociocultural Analysis of Educational Policy (with M. Sutton, 2001), and Reimagining Civic Education: How Diverse Societies Form Democratic Citizens (with D. Stevick, 2007). Mica Pollock is Professor of Education Studies and Director of the Center for Research on Educational Equity, Assessment, and Teaching Excellence (CREATE) at the University of California, San Diego. She is the author of two ethnographies, Colormute: Race Talk Dilemmas in an American School (2004) and Because of Race: How Americans Debate Harm and Opportunity in Our Schools (2008), and the editor of a volume for educators that includes many anthropologists, Everyday Antiracism: Getting Real about Race in School (2008).

• List of Contributors viiiIntroduction 1Mica Pollock and Bradley A.U. LevinsonPart I Histories and Generations 91 World Anthropologies of Education 11Kathryn M. Anderson-Levitt2 Culture 25Frederick Erickson3 The Ethnography of Schooling Writ Large, 1955–2010 34Ray McDermott and Jason Duque Raley4 Education, Cultural Production, and Figuring Out What to Do Next 50Hervé Varenne, with Jill Koyama5 Recovering History in the Anthropology of Education 65Elsie Rockwell6 The Rise of Class Culture Theory in Educational Anthropology 81Douglas Foley7 “If There’s Going to Be an Anthropology of Education …” 97Harry F. Wolcott8 Building an Applied Educational Anthropology beyond the Academy 112Jean J. SchensulPart II Education via Language: Speaking, Writing, Playing 1359 Linguistic Anthropology of Education 137Stanton Wortham and Angela Reyes10 The Anthropology of Literacy 154Lesley Bartlett, Dina López, Lalitha Vasudevan, and Doris Warriner11 The Anthropology of Language Planning and Policy 177Teresa L. McCarty and Larisa Warhol12 Language Socialization across Educational Settings 197Patricia Baquedano-López and Sera Jean Hernandez13 Ethnographic Studies of Children and Youth and the Media 212Joseph Tobin and Allison Henward14 Hip Hop and the Politics of Ill-literacy 232H. Samy Alim15 Argumentation and the Negotiation of Scientific Authority in Classrooms 247Laura J. Wright, Joel Kuipers, and Gail ViechnickiPart III States, Identities, and Education 26316 The Predicament of Embodied Nationalisms and Educational Subjects 265Véronique Benei17 Toward an Anthropology of (Democratic) Citizenship Education 279Bradley A.U. Levinson18 Development, Post-colonialism, and Global Networks as Frameworks for the Study of Education in Africa and Beyond 299Amy Stambach and Zolani Ngwane19 Civil Sociality and Childhood Education 316Sally Anderson20 Anthropological Perspectives on Chinese Children, Youth, and Education 333Vanessa L. Fong and Sung won Kim21 Schools, Skills, and Morals in the Contemporary Middle East 349Fida Adely and Gregory Starrett22 Educational Policy, Anthropology, and the State 368Carlos Miñana Blasco and Carolina Arango VargasPart IV Roles, Experiences, and Institutions 38923 Immigrants and Education 391Margaret A. Gibson and Jill P. Koyama24 Variations on Diversity and the Risks of Bureaucratic Complicity 408Ángel Díaz de Rada and Livia Jiménez Sedano25 Toward an Anthropology of Teachers and Teaching 425Sarah Jewett and Katherine Schultz26 Cultural Anthropology Looks at Higher Education 445Wesley Shumar and Shabana Mir27 What Makes the Anthropology of Educational Policy Implementation ‘Anthropological’? 461Edmund T. Hamann and Lisa RosenPart V Interventions 47928 The Past, Present, and Future of “Funds of Knowledge” 481Norma González, Leisy Wyman, and Brendan H. O’Connor29 Multiculturalism and Intercultural Education Facing the Anthropology of Education 495Gunther Dietz and Laura Selene Mateos Cortés30 A Sociohistorical Perspective for Participatory Action Research and Youth Ethnography in Social Justice Education 517Julio Cammarota31 Parents as Critical Educators and Ethnographers of Schooling 530Janise Hurtig and Andrea Dyrness32 The Critical Ethnography of Public Policy for Social Justice 547Patricia D. Lopez, Angela Valenzuela, and Emmanuel GarcíaIndex 563