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Key themes in the ethnography of education : achievements and agendas / Sara Delamont

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London, United Kingdom : Sage Publications, c2014Description: xi, 225 pages ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781412901598
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • LB 45 .D45 2014
Contents:
1. Introduction : a detective of some kind -- 2. One page of notes and no hypotheses : the spyglass of anthropology -- 3. Places and spaces : a group on the store porch -- 4. Time and timescapes : 'we were to dance three hours' -- 5. Memories and memorials : a diploma and a Chevrolet -- 6. Movement and mobilities : heading my toenails -- 7. Bodies and performativity : not pleasure dancing but ceremonial -- 8. Groups and identities : the profound silence of the initiated -- 9. Narratives and other tales : 'ah come to collect some old stories' -- 10. Senses and multi-sensory matters : indescribable noises, sights, feelings -- 11. Knowledge and its transmission : 'taught me all that he could' -- 12. Conclusions : through the roiling smoke
Summary: This work is a synoptic survey of fifty years of ethnography in formal and informal educational settings. It pulls together the core findings from both the anthropology and the sociology of education, drawing on international research to explore a range of themes, from movement and mobilities to the body, identity, time and space
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Books Books National University - Manila LRC - Annex General Circulation General Education GC LB 45 .D45 2014 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) c.1 Available NULIB000009523

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction : a detective of some kind -- 2. One page of notes and no hypotheses : the spyglass of anthropology -- 3. Places and spaces : a group on the store porch -- 4. Time and timescapes : 'we were to dance three hours' -- 5. Memories and memorials : a diploma and a Chevrolet -- 6. Movement and mobilities : heading my toenails -- 7. Bodies and performativity : not pleasure dancing but ceremonial -- 8. Groups and identities : the profound silence of the initiated -- 9. Narratives and other tales : 'ah come to collect some old stories' -- 10. Senses and multi-sensory matters : indescribable noises, sights, feelings -- 11. Knowledge and its transmission : 'taught me all that he could' -- 12. Conclusions : through the roiling smoke

This work is a synoptic survey of fifty years of ethnography in formal and informal educational settings. It pulls together the core findings from both the anthropology and the sociology of education, drawing on international research to explore a range of themes, from movement and mobilities to the body, identity, time and space

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