EDUC 6325 Anthropology & Education


Professor Margaret Eisenhart
Thursdays, 4-6:30 p.m.; Fall 2001

Reference Materials and Required Texts
The following bibliography contains materials for anyone interested in a solid introduction to anthropology and education. Double asterisks (**) indicate required texts for the course. These texts are available at the university bookstores. Additional readings will be available in the Equity Library (Room 344) in the Education Building.

Anthropology and Education Quarterly. the journal of the Council on Anthropology and Education.

Calhoun, Craig and Ianni, Francis, eds. The Anthropological Study of Education (The Hague: Mouton, 1976).

Cole, Michael and Means, Barbara. Comparative Studies of How People Think (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1981).

Connell, R. W., Ashenden, D. W., Kessler, S. and Dowsett, G. W. Making the Difference. Schools, Families, and Social Division (Sydney: George Allen Unwin, 1982).

Davidson, Ann. Making and Molding Identity in Schools: Student Narratives on Race, Gender, and Academic Achievement (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996).

diLeonardo, Micaela. The Varieties of Ethnic Experience. Kinship, Class and Gender among California Italian-Americans (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1984).

Eckert, Penelope. Jocks and Burnouts. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1989).

Eddy, Elizabeth. Becoming a Teacher (New York: Teacher College Press, 1969).

Edwards, Derek and Mercer, Neil. Common Knowledge: The Development of Understanding in the Classroom (London: Routledge Press, 1987).

Fine, Michelle. Framing Dropouts: Notes on the Politics of an Urban Public High School (Albany: SUNY Press, 1991).

Everhart, Robert. Reading, Writing and Resistance. Adolescence and Labor in Junior High School (Boston: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1983).

Foley, Douglas. Learning Capitalist Culture: Deep in the Heart of Tejas. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1990).

Fuchs, Estelle. Teacher's Talk (Garden City, N.J.: Doubleday, 1969). Gallimore, Ronald et al. Culture, Behavior, and Education (Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications, 1974).

Gallimore, Ronald et al. Culture, Behavior, and Education (Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications, 1974).

Gearing, Frederick and Sangree, Lucinda, eds. Toward a Cultural Theory of Education and Schooling (The Hague: Mouton, 1979).

Giroux, Henry, Simon, Roger, and Contributors. Popular Culture: Schooling and Everyday Life. (Granby, MA: Bergin & Garvey, 1989).

Goodlad, John I. A Place Called School: Prospects for the Future (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1984).

Gordon, C. Wayne. The Social System of the High School (Glencoe, IL: Free Press, 1957).

Guthrie, Grace Peng. A School Divided. An Ethnography of Bilingual Education in a Chinese Community (Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1985).

**Heath, Shirley Brice. Ways with Words (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983).

**Holland, Dorothy and Eisenhart, Margaret. Educated in Romance: Women, Achievement and College Culture. (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1990).

Hostetler, John and Huntington, Gertrude. Children in Amish Society: Socialization and Community Education (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971).

Human Organization, the journal of the Society for Applied Anthropology.

Jackson, Philip. Life in Classrooms (New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1968).

Jacob, Evelyn and Jordan, Cathie, Eds. Explaining the School Performance of Minority Students. Theme Issue, In Anthropology and Education Quarterly 18(4), 1987.

Jenkins, Richard. Lads, Citizens, and Ordinary Kids: Working-Class Youth Life-Styles in Belfast (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1983).

Kleinfeld, Judith. Eskimo School on the Andreafsky. A Study of Effective Bicultural Education (New York: Praeger, 1979).

Latour, Bruno and Woolgar, Steve. Laboratory Life. The Social Construction of Scientific Facts (Beverly Hills, CA: Sage, 1979).

Lave, Jean. Cognition in Practice: Mind, Mathematics and Culture in Everyday Life. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988).

Lave, Jean and Wenger, Etienne. Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991).

Leacock, Eleanor. Teaching and Learning in City Schools (New York: Basic Books, 1969).

Leemon, Thomas. Rites of Passage in a Student Culture (New York: Teachers College Press, 1972).

** Levinson, Bradley, et al., eds. SChooling the Symbolic Animal: Social and Cultural Dimensions of Education. (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishing, 2000).

Levinson, Bradley, Foley, Douglas, and Holland, Dorothy, eds. The Cultural Production of the Educated Person (Albany, State University of the New York Press, 1996).

Limón, Jóse. Dancing with the Devil: Society and Cultural Poetics in Mexican-American South Texas (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1994).

Lortie, Dan C. Schoolteacher (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1975).

MacLeod, Jay. Ain't No Makin' It. Leveled Aspirations in a Low-Income Neighborhood (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1987).

McPherson, Gertrude H. Small Town Teacher (Cambridge, MA; Harvard University Press, 1972).

Mead, Margaret. Coming of Age in Samoa (New York: William Morrow, 1928).

Mehan, Hugh. Learning Lessons. Social Organization in the Classroom (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1979).

Mehan, Hugh, Hertweck, Alma and Meihls, J. Lee. Handicapping the Handicapped: Decision Making in Students' Educational Careers (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1986).

Metz, Mary. Classrooms and Corridors. The Crisis of Authority in Desegregated Secondary Schools (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978).

National Academy of Education. Anthropology and Education (Washington, D.C.: National Academy of Education, 1978).

Nespor, Jan. Knowledge in Motion: Space, Time, and Curriculum in Undergraduate Physics and Management (London: Falmer Press, 1994).

**Nespor, Jan. Tangled Up in School: Politics, Space, Bodies, and Signs in the Educational Process. (Mahwah, N. J.: L. Erlbaum Associates, 1997).

Ogbu, John. Minority Education and Caste (New York: Academic Press, 1978).

Ogbu, John. The Next Generation (New York: Academic Press, 1974).

Peshkin, Alan. The Imperfect Union. School Consolidation and Community Conflict (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982).

Philips, Susan. The Invisible Culture. Communication in Classroom and Community on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation (New York: Longman, 1983).

Plath, David. Long Engagements (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1980).

Quarterly Newsletter of the Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition.

Rist, Ray. Desegregated Schools. Appraisals of an American Experiment (New York: Academic Press, 1979).

Roberts, Joan and Akinsanya, Sherrie, eds. Educational Patterns and Cultural Configurations (New York: David McKay, 1976).

Roberts, Joan and Akinsanya, Sherrie, eds. Schooling in the Cultural Context (New York: David McKay, 1976).

Rohlen, Thomas. Japan's High Schools (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983).

Schlechty, Phillip. Teaching and Social Behavior. Toward an Organizational Theory of Instruction (Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1976).

Shimahara, Nobuo and Scrupski, Adam. Social Forces and Schooling (New York: David McKay, 1975).

Solomon, R. Patrick. Black Resistance in High School: Forging a Separatist Culture (Albany: SUNY Press, 1992).

Spindler, George, ed. Doing the Ethnography of Schooling. Educational Anthropology in Action (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1982).

Spindler, George, ed. Education and Cultural Process: Anthropological Approaches. Second Edition. (Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press, 1987).

Spradley, James P. Participant Observation (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1980).

Spradley, James P. The Ethnographic Interview (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1980).

Spradley, Thomas S. and Spradley, James P. Deaf Like Me (New York: Random House, 1978).

Tharp, Roland and Gillimore, Ronald. Rousing Minds to Life: Teaching, Learning, and Schooling in Social Context (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988.)

** Tillman-Healy, Lisa. Between Gay and Straight: Understanding Friendship across Sexual Orientation. (Walnut Creek, CA: Altamira Press, 2001). Tobin, Joseph, Wu, David and Davidson, Dana. Preschool in Three Cultures: Japan, China, and the United States. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989).

Weis, Lois. Between Two Worlds: Black Students in an Urban Community College (Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1985).

Weis, Lois. Working Class Without Work: High School Students in a De-industrializing Economy. (New York: Routledge, 1990).

Weis, Lois, ed. Class, Race and Gender in American Education (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1988).

Wexler, Philip. Becoming Somebody: Toward a Social Psychology of School. (London, Falmer Press, 1992).

**Willis Paul. Learning to Labor: How Working Class Kids Get Working Class Jobs (New York: Columbia University Press, 1977).

Wolcott, Harry. The Man in the Principal's Office. An Ethnography (Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press, 1984).

Wolcott, Harry. Teachers vs. Technocrats (Eugene, OR: Center for Educational Policy and Management, University of Oregon, 1977.)

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