Minority Education: Anthropological Perspectives / Edition 1

by Evelyn Jacob, Cathie Jordan

Overview

This volume brings the perspectives of educational anthropology to the consideration of the education of ethnic and linguistic minority students and to the challenges often associated with that enterprise. Built around a core of chapters originally published in the Anthropology and Education Quarterly, which presented two major anthropological perspectives on school success and failure for minority students, focuses on the cultural difference approach and the discontinuity approach. Each is represented by a theoretical chapter and two case studies. Chapters contrast anthropological and nonanthropological perspectives on minority education, outlining key concepts and methods in educational anthropology for readers who may be unfamiliar with the field. A later section offers recent modifications or additions to the two major perspectives. These chapters examine the role of parents and community in minority education, call attention to the cultural groupings that an form in response to the school context itself, focus attention on children as active decision-makers in school, and question the validity of the whole conceptualization of school success and failure. Concluding chapters on applying anthropological perspectives to policy and practice.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780893919375
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	01/01/1993
Series:	Social and Policy Issues in Education Series
Pages:	292
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.61(d)

About the Author

cob /f Evelyn

dan /f Cathie

Table of Contents

Cultural Continuity and Discontinuity
Societal Forces and Minority Responses
Additional Issues and Alternative Perspectives
Policy and Practice Considerations