Research Handbook on the Anthropology of Education

Edited by Margaret Eisenhart

in Books from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This innovative Research Handbook explores how anthropological perspectives can help us to understand education in diverse contexts, providing an overview of recent research, current challenges and future directions in the field. Expert contributors examine how cultural practices, knowledge, meaning systems and historical traditions shape learning and teaching experiences around the world.

Keywords: Cultural Anthropology; Ethnographic Research; Educational Anthropology; Cultural Change; Educational Opportunities; Educational Inequities; Ethical Research (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026
ISBN: 9781035332908
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Anthropology of education: past, present, emergent

Margaret Eisenhart

Ch 2 The power of ethnography to open worlds different from your own

Margarita del Olmo

Ch 3 The anthropocene as challenge to anthropology of education

Christoph Wulf

Ch 4 The road not taken? (Re)directing educational anthropology toward cultural processes of attention, becoming, and responsible agency

Katherine Richardson Bruna

Ch 5 Using anthropology to make schools more human

Peter Demerath

Ch 6 Anthropology of education and Cassandra's dilemma

Edmund (“Ted”) Hamann

Ch 7 Capturing cultural change: approaches for attending to the creation and transformation of cultural worlds

Tricia Niesz

Ch 8 Analyzing research for education justice with meta-ethnography

Dennis Beach

Ch 9 “Access denied”: interrogating how inequality and injustice are produced in educational policymaking contexts

Elena Aydarova

Ch 10 Dealing with diversity in anthropology of education: some critical notes

Adela Franzé Mudanó

Ch 11 Space in anthropology and education research

Aprille Phillips and Tricia Gray

Ch 12 Learning and development in economies of care: a reading of research practices toward intergenerational equity

Katie Headrick Taylor

Ch 13 Anthropology in the United States for America and beyond

Hervé Varenne

Ch 14 Avoiding unthropology and rigor: remembering to put people first

Nicholas Limerick and Grey Gundaker

Ch 15 School education complicates complexity: elements to enhance anthropological research on schooling

Ángel Díaz de Rada

Ch 16 Discomforting coherence: how and why we should keep studying appropriation in educational processes

Susana Ayala

Ch 17 Avoiding the pendulum: contributions of anthropology to understanding the production of knowledge in the contemporary world

Ana Padawer

Ch 18 Toward participatory and educative research practices in anthropology and education1

Frederick Erickson

Ch 19 Multi-situated anthropology of education in international settings

Lesley Bartlett, Ariel Borns, Jonathan Marino and Claudia M Triana

Ch 20 Cross-disciplinary research in the anthropology of education

Jessica Sujata Chandras

Ch 21 Critical relationality and relational accountability in educational anthropology research

Joaquín M.S Noguera and Teresa L McCarty

Ch 22 Mindful approaches to seeing possibilities: from critical to transformative educational ethnography1

Marjorie Elaine

Ch 23 Rethinking position statements in ethnographic research

Jacqueline M Manzo, Danielle N Aguilar and Katherine Schultz

Ch 24 Researchers’ positionalities: conducting team ethnography for educational research

Lu Liu and Sophia L Ángeles

Ch 25 Fugitive practices: researching learning, social marginalization, and personhood

Diane M Hoffman

Ch 26 Centering lives in between: participatory approaches to ethnography with diaspora youth

Andrea Dyrness

Ch 27 Analyses of power in designs for learning

A. Susan Jurow and Ilana S Horn

Ch 28 Co-designing in-relation for transformational practice: storied vignettes of co-learning Ethnic Studies pedagogies with educators

Josephine H Pham, Christina Hewko, Emanuel Suarez Jimenez and Ian Slattery

Ch 29 Intimacy in and with data: affective landscapes of learning and doing educational research

Sarah El Halwany and Jrène Rahm

Ch 30 Fostering community-sustaining pedagogies through STEM education

Cory Buxton

Ch 31 Methodological innovations for collaborating with undergraduate STEM students in conducting ethnographic research

Jennifer Radoff and Chandra Turpen

Ch 32 Affordances of longitudinal and latitudinal case studies in Indigenous STEAM (ISTEAM) education

Nikki Barry and Megan Bang

Ch 33 Mapping ways forward: centering youth knowledges in education's spatial turn

Yaa Oparebea Ampofo and Khrysta A Evans

Ch 34 Bearing witness through creative expression: ethical ethnography for the future

Thea Renda Abu El-Haj and Ellen Skilton

Ch 35 Straight work and the skin horse: drawings and comics and how to use them in the anthropology of education

Sally Pirie

Ch 36 AI (artificial intelligence) in anthropological education: a design-inspired pedagogical approach

Matt Artz

Ch 37 Making meaning of and with artificial intelligence: digital materiality and multimodality in education ethnography

Yun Dai and Ziyan Lin

Ch 38 Anthropology of education

Margaret Eisenhart

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