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26 paź 2020 · The anthropology of education dedicates itself to the study of education, including schooling, but also the broader ways of educating found in homes, workplaces, and, indeed, all social interactions.
Anthropology may be considered the most molar of the social. sciences. Conceiving the largest possible units of society as areas of structural-functional study, anthropologists have developed theoretical tools and techniques for describing and analyzing "cultural wholes."
The early beginnings of educational anthropology are important, but contemporary educational anthropology is primarily the outgrowth of social and cultural anthropology as it developed during the 1920s.
28 mar 2024 · In this article Cristoph Wulf examines the basic concepts of pedagogy and educational science in the German-speaking world, looking at education and socialization from the perspective of educational anthropology.
Culture concept and education—exploration of the idea of culture and the meaning and dynamics of the culture concept in education. Anthropology of education—the anthropology of how culture is transmitted from generation to generation through child rearing and enculturation in the broadest sense.
12 sty 2023 · The field of anthropology and education, also referred to as educational anthropology, was formally organized in the mid-twentieth century, with primary research interests at the time in infant and childhood socialization as this took place in everyday life in families in non-Western, smaller-scale societies.
Anthropologists of education seek to understand how teaching and learning are organized socially and culturally, but teaching and learning encounters are embedded within social processes, and basic theoretical questions cannot be decontextualized from political and applied questions.
