Educational Anthropology
Code: 101253 ECTS Credits: 6| Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2500256 Social and Cultural Anthropology | OB | 3 | 2 |
Contact
- Name:
- Silvia Carrasco Pons
- Email:
- silvia.carrasco@uab.cat
Use of Languages
- Principal working language:
- catalan (cat)
- Some groups entirely in English:
- No
- Some groups entirely in Catalan:
- Yes
- Some groups entirely in Spanish:
- No
Teachers
- Laia Narciso Pedro
Prerequisites
There are no pre- requisites
Objectives and Contextualisation
Anthropology of Education is a subject of 6 compulsory ECTS that is part of the general thematic areas of Anthropology.
The Anthropology of Education is the specialized study of the objectives, processes and contexts of cultural acquisition/transmission that turn human beings into specific cultural subjects of a group or society, and of the inequality and diversity in the conditions of learning and social reproduction that affect them in contemporary societies.
The formative objectives of the subject are threefold:
To know and understand the conditions and practices of upbringing, enculturation and socialization from a cross-cultural perspective 2.
2. To analyze the school institution and its hegemonic expansion in the global world.
3. To learn to read, do and write ethnography in formal and non-formal educational contexts of learning.
This course is taught from the principles of the 2006 Mission Statement of the Council on Anthropology of Education of the AAA, and its commitment to social justice in all settings in which learning takes place in the research and application of the Anthropology of Education.
Competences
- Act with ethical responsibility and respect for fundamental rights and duties, diversity and democratic values.
- Apprehending cultural diversity through ethnography and critically assessing ethnographic materials as knowledge of local contexts and as a proposal of theoretical models.
- Carry out effective written work or oral presentations adapted to the appropriate register in different languages.
- Demonstrate skills for working autonomously or in teams to achieve the planned objectives including in multicultural and interdisciplinary contexts.
- Demonstrating they know and comprehend the epistemological and methodological debates in Anthropology and the main investigation techniques.
- Students must be capable of applying their knowledge to their work or vocation in a professional way and they should have building arguments and problem resolution skills within their area of study.
- Students must be capable of collecting and interpreting relevant data (usually within their area of study) in order to make statements that reflect social, scientific or ethical relevant issues.
- Take sex- or gender-based inequalities into consideration when operating within one's own area of knowledge.
- Use digital tools and critically interpret specific documentary sources.
- Using the discipline's ethnographic and theoretical corpus with analytical and synthesis skills.
Learning Outcomes
- Analysing a contemporary fact from an anthropological perspective.
- Applying the knowledge of cultural variability and its genesis to avoid ethnocentric projections.
- Apprehending cultural diversity through ethnography and critically assessing ethnographic materials as local context knowledge.
- Carry out ethical use of the information especially when it is of a personal nature.
- Communicate using language that is not sexist or discriminatory.
- Distinguishing between the theoretical concepts of Anthropology and the indigenous concepts.
- Effectively working in teams and respecting different opinions.
- Explain the explicit or implicit code of practice of one's own area of knowledge.
- Express ideas with a specific vocabulary appropriate to the discipline.
- Identify main and secondary ideas and express them with linguistic correctness.
- Identify the principal forms of sex- or gender-based inequality and discrimination present in society.
- Identifying the sociocultural variability through ethnographic texts and audiovisual resources.
- Identifying the transcultural variability of economic, kinship, political, symbolic and cognitive, educational and gender systems as well as their corresponding anthropological theory.
- Interpreting the cultural diversity through ethnography.
- Interpreting today's main events from physical, economic, social and cultural diversity.
- Knowing and assessing the various processes of intercultural relationship.
- Plan work effectively, individually or in groups, in order to fulfil the planned objectives.
- Summarising acquired knowledge about the origin and transformations experienced in the several fields of anthropology.
- Summarizing the characteristics of a written text in accordance to its communicative purposes.
- Theoretically analysing ethnographic examples of cultural diversity in the fields of education, gender and inclusion-exclusion systems.
- Using the ethnographic corpus in the cultural critique.
- Weigh up the impact of any long- or short-term difficulty, harm or discrimination that could be caused to certain persons or groups by the actions or projects.
Content
The program is structured in two parts. The first is organized around five major questions that the anthropology of education has been asking from its origins to the present day, within the framework of the intellectual project of anthropology as a discipline. The second part focuses on the ethnography of education from a multilevel approach.
Part I
I. Does the diversity of cultures promote diverse personalities?
II. How does the process of cultural transmission and acquisition take place in each context?
III. What is the impact of the universalization and hegemony of school education?
IV. Why do educational inequalities persist among diverse socio-cultural groups?
V. What do minority groups have to say?
Part Two
I. From classical ethnography to critical ethnography of education. The work of the personal equation.
II. Reading ethnography of education.
III. Doing ethnography of education.
IV. Writing ethnography of education.
V. Education and emancipation: ethnography of educational policies.
Methodology
The teaching is organized in a single three-hour weekly session that includes:
- Lectures on the topics of the program by the professor and invited speakers.
- Reading and analysis of cases and problems from different sources.
- Viewing and analysis of audiovisual materials.
- Reading groups, discussion and presentation of ethnographic monographs.
- Follow-up of individual work on school trajectory and social reproduction
- Follow-up of prospective ethnographic work in teams
Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.
Activities
| Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type: Directed | |||
| Theoretical classes with ICT support and practical classes for the analysis of cases and ethnographic texts | 35 | 1.4 | 20, 1, 3, 6, 13, 15, 14 |
| Type: Supervised | |||
| Descriptive or analytic exercises, individually or in groups. | 12 | 0.48 | 1, 2, 3, 16, 12, 15, 14, 19, 18 |
| Type: Autonomous | |||
| Reading, analysis of texts, drawing up diagrams and abstracts, searching for information and preparing discussions and presentations, drafting papers. | 60 | 2.4 | 20, 1, 3, 16, 6, 12, 13, 15, 14, 19, 18, 21 |
Assessment
The evaluation consists of 4 exercises:
- Individual auto-ethnographic essay on personal trajectory and personal equation 20%.
- Individual written test on lectures and other compulsory materials 30%.
- Classroom practice in a reading group: analysis and presentation of two monographs 20%.
- Ethnography work in teams 30%.
IMPORTANT NOTICES:
No late work will be accepted, nor will conditions be tolerated that favor the evaluation opportunities of some students over others.
Non-assessable: Students who have not taken any of the 4 evaluation tests without any justification will be considered non-assessable students.
Final grade: The final grade corresponds to the average of all the grades obtained.
Re-evaluation: This option is only possible for students who have taken all the evaluation tests but have failed one or more of them.
Plagiarism: In case the student performs any irregularity that could lead to a significant variation in the grade of an evaluation act, this evaluation act will be graded with 0, regardless of the disciplinary process that may be instituted. In case of several irregularities in the evaluation acts of the same subject, the final grade of this subject will be 0.
Assessment Activities
| Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ethnographic or analitic exercises, individually or in groups. | 50% | 30 | 1.2 | 20, 1, 2, 6, 8, 4, 15, 14, 17, 19, 22 |
| Individual written test | 30% | 3 | 0.12 | 20, 1, 2, 3, 5, 16, 6, 9, 12, 13, 15, 14, 19, 18, 21 |
| Participacion in reading groups and debates on monographs, presentation of team work | 20% | 10 | 0.4 | 20, 1, 16, 6, 12, 10, 11, 19, 18, 7 |
Bibliography
Some compilations of reference; specific readings will be provided for each section.
Anderson-Levitt, K. M. Ed. (2010). Anthropologies of Education. A Global Guide to Ethnographic Studies of Learning and Schooling, London: Berghahn Books.
Conteh, J.; Mor-Sommerfeld, A.; Kenner, Ch., Gregory, E.ar (2005). On Writing Educational Ethnographies. The art of collusion. London: Trentham Books.
García Castaño, F.J.; Carrasco, S. Eds. (2011). Población inmigrante y escuela. Conocimientos y saberes de investigación. Madrid: Ministerio de Educación.
García Castaño, F.J., Velasco, H., Pulido, R., Eds. (2007). Lecturas de Antropología para Educadores. Madrid: Trotta.
Gillian, L.; Markom, G., Eds. (2022). Doing difference and sameness in European schools. An Anthropology of Education. EASA Bergham Books (en premsa)
Hodges, D. H. (2011). The Anthropology of Education. Classic Readings. San Diego: Cognella.
Jociles, M.; Franzé, A. Eds. (2008). ¿Es la escuela el problema? Investigaciones en Antropología y Educación. Madrid: Trotta.
Lancy, D. (2008). The Anthropology of Childhood. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
LeCompte, M. & Schensul, J. (2012). Designing and Conducting Ethnographic Research. The Ethnographer's toolkit (7 vols). London: SAGE.
Levinson, B.; Foley, D.; Holland, D. Eds. (1997). The cultural production of the educated person. Critical Ethnographies of Schooling and Local Practice. NY: SUNY Press.
Spindler, G & L, Eds. (2000). Fifty years of Anthropology and Education, NY: LEA
Recursos en línea:
http://www.aaanet.org/sections/cae/
Actes de congressos:
http://grupsderecerca.uab.cat/emigra/content/emigra-working-papers-5
http://cieye.wordpress.com/ -
Software
It is necessary to guarantee that students can access the Teams platform, established by the UAB to carry out online activities.