The Ethnography of Schooling Writ Large, 1955-2010
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Ruth Benedict (1948) offered an evocative image: that studying culture amounts to studying individual psychology writ large. We resurrect the writ large image to make the argument that all ethnography reaches for a portrait of everything at stage in the details of peopleÍs lives. Usual approaches to education -- psychology, economics, sociology, even history -- deliver important slices, but anthropologists seek the full schedule of struggles that make every moment significant, potentially treacherous, and likely political. A view of anthropology as inquiry into the layers of demanding and promising situations and interpretations should set the standard for how any cultural context -- including schools -- should be studied.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Date created | 2010 |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | McDermott, Ray |
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| Author | Raley, Jason Duque |
Subjects
| Subject | ethnography |
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| Subject | education |
| Genre | Book chapter |
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