Difference and Sameness in Schools

Laura Gilliam is an anthropologist and Associate Professor in Educational Anthropology, at School of Education, Aarhus University, Denmark. With Eva Gulløv, she is the author of Children of the Welfare State: Civilizing Practices in Schools, Childcare and Families, (Pluto Books, 2017).

“This book is the product of high levels of expertise and provides a great deal of information and insights about how schools in different regions of Europe deal with the contemporary challenge of diversity (difference) and ‘sameness’.” • Cristina Allemann-Ghionda, University of Cologne

• Introduction: The Anthropological Study of Schools. Presenting European Anthropology of EducationLaura Gilliam and Christa MarkomPart I: Constructing and Handling Difference and Sameness in the Everyday of SchoolChapter 1. Rendering Sameness and Difference Pedagogical. Care for Kindergarten Pupils in a Stigmatized Swiss SuburbUrsina JaegerChapter 2. Teaching Equality, Teaching Hierarchy: Moral Lessons in the Schools of the Danish Welfare StateLaura GilliamChapter 3. Approaching Difference through Control or Care: Diverging School Ethos in the Norwegian Unified SchoolIngrid SmetteChapter 4. “Silencing” or “Being Silent” from a Child-Centred Perspective: Accomplices to the Invisibility of Differences in an Austrian SchoolChrista MarkomPart II: Constructing and Handling Difference and Sameness through the Policies, Curriculum and Structures of SchoolChapter 5. Schooling and Age Imaginaries: Establishing the Foundations of Sameness and Difference in an English Secondary SchoolPatrick AlexanderChapter 6. Education and integration of the Others: Roma Education in the Czech RepublicMarkéta Levínská, David Doubek and Dana BittnerováChapter 7. Regionalism and Minority Identities in Putin’s Russia: Ethnographic Perspectives on School Education and BelongingDilyara Müller-SuleymanovaChapter 8. Activating Muslims: Citizenship in Dutch Islamic schools#Jamal Ahajjaj, Martijn de Koning and Thijl SunierChapter 9. Teaching History and Performing the Nation: The Production of National Citizens in Greek Primary EducationIoannis ManosPart III: Special ContributionsChapter 10. Anthropology and/in Intercultural Education in Italy: The Winding Roads to Diversity and IdentityFrancesca GobboChapter 11. Civil Enculturation in The Netherlands, Britain, Germany, and France: a Look Back and AheadSabine Mannitz and Thijl SunierAfterword: Towards an Anthropology of Education in Europe: Insights, Challenges and PotentialSpyrou Spyros