ED4928:04
Anthropology of Education and Schooling
Townsville
Inadmissable Subject Combination: SD3564
26 lectures, 13 tutorials. Second semester.
Available to level 3 and level 4 BEd students as an elective.
Staff: Mr G Coombs.
Ethnographic reports of education and schooling in ‘traditional’, modernising, and modern urban societies are critically reviewed. During tutorial discussions, students clarify their understanding of such issues as differential socialisation, social change and cultural maintenance, bilingual/bicultural education and minority group school performance.
Learning Objectives:
- be familiar with the ‘roots’ and development of the field of study, Anthropology of Education and have an understanding of the range of interests and concerns (past and present) of those working in this field;
- be familiar with anthropological approaches to research in educational settings and be able to critique anthroethnographic research results;
- feel confident to use the insights gained from the students’ study of Anthropology of Education to inform and evaluate and thereby improve their own teaching/learning skills.
Assessment by an article review essay (approx 1,500 words) (30%); review presentation (20%); essay (approximately 3,000 words) (50%).
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