Examines the role of continuing education, both historically and in current sociological perspective, within the culture of higher education. Stresses the need for literature about the nature and culture of continuing higher education. (Author)

Disciplinary knowledge in anthropology occupies a unique position in relation to quality education: anthropology in education and the anthropology of education. This essay differentiates between anthropology as a field, as a repository of content and disciplinary knowledge (anthropology in education), and anthropology as a tool, as a theoretical…

The competing global forces of homogenizing commercialism and absolutist sectarianism continue to engender a regime of fear and have all but eclipsed what John Dewey called the democratic "habit of amicable cooperation." The values of cooperation are increasingly seen as "unrealistic" and even taken as signs of weakness in the…

Over a 50-year professional career, Dr. Beatrice Medicine never failed to assert the importance of Indigenous language rights or to challenge racism in the academy, public schools, and society. She urged educational anthropologists to confront racism in our research with Indigenous peoples. She challenged linguicism and urged the teaching of…

The author expounds on his philosophy of international education as a cross cultural experience, related to the open education concept, and presents the progressive stages of a British program for American students. (JH)

Summaries of seminar activities and copies of materials distributed before and during the meetings are presented in this report on the sixth in a series of seminars on dissemination processes. Focusing on collaboration in education among public and private organizations, the seminar aimed to help its participants increase their understanding of…

Ethnography is coming to be much discussed in education. A definition of ethnography is, however, an elusive and complicated question. Anthropologists do not themselves have a unified conception of ethnography, especially of ethnography in relation to the study of institutions of our own society, such as education. One difficulty with the notion…

"News and Notes" is published periodically during the academic year. Topics of typical issues are rotated to include each of the several social science disciplines and social science education. Usually included are: 1) A lead article focusing on what's new in the social sciences; 2) Descriptions of social studies/social science classroom…

By treating a school as a subculture, the Center for New Schools hopes to use the techniques of anthropology to elucidate behavioral problems which may be keeping school members from achieving their goals. (JC)

Children's school problems are often blamed on either the individual or one of the groups to which the child belongs. An interpretive approach views individuals and groups, the worlds of actions and ideas, as mutually defining and constitutive. (Author/LHW)

Based on research at an urban school with a day care program, this paper focuses on the gulf between students and day care center staff. Analyzes its implications and suggests solutions, utilizing four anthropological perspectives on the moral ordering of society. (Author/LHW)

Considers bias and subjectivity in ethnographic research. Since researchers cannot eliminate biographical determinants, the makeup of the researcher is critical to research quality. This article suggests ways to move this "bias in biography" toward a new era in anthropology and education. (Author/LHW)

Considers recent perspectives in educational research, particularly the use of critical ethnography in the study of comparative education. Reviews the origin and relationship to critical ethnography of sociological, anthropological, interpretive, and critical approaches in comparative education. Discusses specific utility to the study of…

The author finds the strength of the ethnomethodological approach to be its interest in understanding and describing day-to-day social interactions in the schools. He sees this as necessary to educational sociology, which has tried to explain "why" things happen in education without first describing "what" is happening. (Author/SJL)

Explores the function of reading in several societies. (MKM)