The Cultural Production of the Educated Person: Critical Ethnographiew of Schooling and Local Practice

by Levinson, Bradley A.; Foley, Douglas E.

• ISBN13: 9780791428603
• ISBN10: 0791428605
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-04-01
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Summary

Eleven historical-ethnographic case studies examine the social and cultural projects of modern schools, and the contestations, dramatic and not, that emerge in and around and against them. These case studies, ranging from Taiwan to South Texas, build upon an original joining of anthropology, critical education theory, and cultural studies. The studies advance the concept of cultural production as a way of understanding the dynamics of power and identity formation underlying different forms of "education". Using the concept of the "educated person" as a culture-specific construct, the authors examine conflicts and points of convergence between cultural practices and knowledges that are produced in and out of schools.

Table of Contents

Preface

The Cultural Production of the Educated Person: An Introduction

Schools As Sites For The Cultural Production Of The Educated Person

Behind Schedule: Batch-Produced Children in French and U.S. Classrooms

The Silent Indian as a Cultural Production

Becoming Somebody in and against School: Toward a Psychocultural Theory of Gender and Self Making

In Search of Aztlán: Movimiento Ideology and the Creation of a Chicano Worldview Through Schooling

The Educated Person In Competing Sites Of Cultural Production

Formal Schooling and the Production of ModernCitizens in the Ecuadorian Amazon

The Production of Biologists at School and Work:Making Scientists, Conservationists, or Flowery Bone-Heads?

Taiwanese Schools against Themselves: School CultureVersus the Subjectivity of Youth

The Educated Person In State Discourse And Local Practice

Social Difference and Schooled Identity at a Mexican Secundaria

From Indios to Profesionales :Stereotypes and Student Resistance in Bolivian Teacher Training

Schools and the Cultural Production of the EducatedPerson in a Nepalese Hill Community

Keys to Appropriation: Rural Schooling in Mexico

Notes on Contributors

Index

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