Key themes in the ethnography of education / Sara Delamont.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Delamont, Sara, 1947- author.

Series:

Sage knowledge.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Educational anthropology.

Ethnology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Thousand Oaks, CA : SAGE Publications, 2017.

Summary:

This book is a synoptic survey of fifty years of ethnography in formal and informal educational settings. Uniquely, 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.

Contents:

chapter 1. Introduction : a detective of some kind

chapter 2. One page of notes and no hypotheses : the spyglass of anthropology

chapter 3. Places and spaces : a group on the store porch

chapter 4. time and timescapes : 'We were to dance three hours'

chapter 5. Memories and memorials : a diploma and a Chevrolet

chapter 6. Movement and mobilities : heading my toenails

chapter 7. Bodies and performativity : not pleasure dancing but ceremonial

chapter 8. Groups and identities : the profound silence of the initiated

chapter 9. Narratives and other tales : 'Ah come to collect some old stories'

chapter 10. Senses and multi-sensory matters : indescribable noises, sights, feelings

chapter 11. Knowledge and its transmission : 'Taught me all that he could'

chapter 12. Conclusions : throught the roiling smoke.

Notes:

Part of the SAGE Knowledge collection.

Description based on MARC record for print version.

Other Format:

Print version :

ISBN:

9781526401700 (ebook) :

OCLC:

1017730818

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.