Culture and Education
ANT354 CULTURAL AND HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES OF U.S. EDUCATION
This course explores educational patterns in socialization and schooling and brings a comparative and historical anthropological perspective to contemporary US American K-12 education. We examine the role that education plays in the transmission of particular knowledges, histories, values and attitudes to young members of society and the ways that the educational system may serve as an agent of social change and/or of stasis. We use a cross-cultural perspective to gain insight into other systems and to the particularities of the US educational system |
The site is designed to share readings and information regarding the course that I offer at SUNY Plattsburgh Department of Anthropology. Shared sites are arranged in the categories explored in the course topics and enough information is given to access the site. Students using this site for class must critique the sources for academic acceptability and cite as per course guidelines.
Site is in constant development and additional sites are added as time allows.
Module: Becoming Part of Society
Module: History and Purpose of Education
Module: Education as Social Control
Module: Book Banning and Censorship
Module: Heterogeneity versus Homogeneity in Education
Module: Racism and Critical Race Theory
Module: U.S. Federal and State Roles in Education
Module: Japan Federal and Prefecture Roles in Education