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Monkman, Karen, Ed.; Frkovich, Ann, Ed.; Proweller, Amira, Ed. – Routledge Research in Education, 2022
This volume offers a timely collection of research-based studies that engage with contemporary conditions of precarity across an array of locations, exploring how it is understood, experienced, and acted upon by educators in schools, universities, and nonformal educational spaces. Precarity presents as layered, unpredictable, destabilizing, and…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Social Justice, Multicultural Education, Educational Policy
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Tassinari, Antonella Imperatriz; Cohn, Clarice – Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 2009
The article analyzes the Brazilian Indigenous formal educational policies through two ethnographic cases (Karipuna and Mebengokre-Xikrin) that allow us to approach the Indigenous perspective on schooling. We first discuss the possibilities and limitations of past and current legal references and educational policies. In the analysis of the two…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Educational Anthropology, Ethnography
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Da Silva Macedo, Silvia Lopes – Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 2009
In this article, I aim to demonstrate the relationships between the educational policies of the Brazilian and French Guyana governments and the sociopolitical structure of the Wayapi in respect to these educational practices. My main objective is to go beyond the normal concept that the school is an external interference that catalyzes processes…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Educational Practices, Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis
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Delamont, Sara – Sport, Education and Society, 2005
"Capoeira," the Brazilian dance and martial art, is now taught in many countries outside Brazil. Reflections on a year's fieldwork on capoeira teaching in the UK are used to make educational ethnography anthropologically strange. Issues of locality, noise, uncertainty and bodily contact are explored in a reflexive way. (Contains 7 notes.)
Descriptors: Ethnography, Foreign Countries, Educational Anthropology, Art Activities