Anthropology of Education
For the anthropologist, education is the mechanism of social reproduction, a strategy not limited to schooling but in fact encompassing a person's entire life. For much of the world, the privileging of schooling as a site of education has had real ramifications on the possibility of maintaining cultural forms that go against the pressures of globalization and capitalism. This course opens with a broad consideration of education before focusing on schooling as the preferred institutional form of education under early 21st century globalism. Our questions will include both how schooling operates to maintain existing social structures and power relations and the possibilities - and consequences - of schools as a site of change.
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George Argiropoulos
Elisabeth Bacon
Gabriella Bomben
Emily Bowens
Kristin Bradford
Aidan Bybee
Diana Caballero
Jack Hirsch
Rebecca Howell
Tatyana Hyles
Victoria Karker
Ryan Kelekian
Damali Mills
Asher Mintzer
Kara Norvet
Victoria Parrott
Alexis Smith
Shin Suzuki