Fifty years of anthropology and education, 1950-2000: a Spindler anthology

843 Pages·2000·2.59 MB·English

by  George Dearborn Spindler

Fifty Years of Anthropology and Education,
title:
1950-2000 : A Spindler Anthology
Spindler, George Dearborn.; Spindler,
author:
Louise S.
publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
isbn10 | asin: 0805834958
print isbn13: 9780805834956
ebook isbn13: 9780585351674
language: English
Educational anthropology, Educational
subject
sociology.
publication date: 2000
lcc: LB45.S66 2000eb
ddc: 306.43
Educational anthropology, Educational
subject:
sociology.
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Fifty Years of Anthropology and Education
19502000
A Spindler Anthology
George and Louise Spindler
Stanford University
Edited by
George Spindler
Copyright © 2000 by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
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Spindler, George Dearborn.
Fifty years of anthropology and education, 19502000: a Spindler anthology / George
and Louise Spindler; edited by George Spindler.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-8058-3495-8 (cloth: alk. paper)
1. Educational anthropology. 2. Educational sociology. I. Title. Spindler anthology. II.
Title: 50 years of anthropology and education 19502000. III. Spindler, Louise S. IV. Title.
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Acknowledgments/Sources
Chapter 1. Anthropology and Education: An Overview. From Education and
Anthropology. G. Spindler, ed. 1955. Stanford University Press. pp. 525.
Anthropology. G. Spindler, ed. 1955. Stanford University Press. pp. 525.
Chapter 2. The Transmission of American Culture. Adapted with abridgement and
revision from The Transmission of America Culture. Third Burton Lecture in Elementary
Education. G. Spindler. Copyright 1959 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College
and reprinted by permission of the publisher, Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Chapter 3. Education in a Transforming American Culture. Reprinted, with revisions from
The Harvard Educational Review, xxv, 1955, 3 (Summer). pp. 145156. Copyright © 1955
by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. All rights reserved.
(continued at back of book on page 421 which constitutes an extension of the copyright
page)
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CONTENTS
Foreword ix
Henry T. Trueba
Preface xvii
Acknowledgments xviii
About the Authors xix
A Life with Anthropology and Education: Interviews 1
with George and Louise Spindler
Ray McDermott and Frederick Erickson
Previews 25
Part I 49
Character Definition
Chapter 1 53
Anthropology and Education: An Overview: The 1954
Conference on Education and Anthropology. 1955.
Chapter 2 75
The Transmission of American Culture. 1959. (The Third
Burton Lecture. Harvard University)
Chapter 3 97
Education in a Transforming American Culture. 1955.
Page vi
Chapter 4 111
Beth Anne: A Case Study of Culturally Defined
Adjustment and Teacher Perceptions. 1974.
Chapter 5 127
Why Have Minority Groups in North America Been
Disadvantaged by Their Schools? 1974.
Chapter 6 141
The Transmission of Culture. 1967.
Part II 179
Comparisons
Chapter 7 181
There Are No Dropouts among the Arunta and the
Hutterites. 1989.
Chapter 8 191
Das Remstal (From Male and Female in Four Changing
Cultures). 1990.
Chapter 9 201
Roger Harker and Schoenhausen: From Familiar to
Strange and Back Again. 1982.
Chapter 10 227
Cultural Dialogue and Schooling in Schoenhausen and
Roseville. 1987.
Part III 243
Ethnography in Action
Chapter 11 247
Teaching and Learning How To Do the Ethnography of
Education. 1988.
Chapter 12 265
Transcultural Sensitization. 1997.
Chapter 13 281
Crosscultural, Comparative, Reflective Interviewing in
Schoenhausen and Roseville. 1993.
Part IV 305
American Culture
Chapter 14 309
Consensus and Continuity in American Culture. 1983.
Page vii
Chapter 15 333
Schooling in the American Cultural Dialogue. 1990.
Chapter 16 349
Cultural Politics of the White Ethni-class in the Mid-90s.
1998.
Part V 361
Cultural Therapy
Chapter 17 365
The Processes of Culture and Person: Cultural Therapy
and Culturally Diverse Schools. 1993.
Part VI 389
Orientation
Chapter 18 393
Making the Familiar Strange: The Anthropological
Dialogue of George and Louise Spindler. 1998.
Susan Parman
Memoir 417
Lorie Hammond
Conclusion 419
Sources 421
Author Index 423
Subject Index 427