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Published September 2024 Women Becoming Practitioner Researchers
From School Teacher to Academic
Corcoran, S. L., Goodley, C., Hay, A., & Olsson Rost, A. (eds)
Sixteen early career researchers (ECRs) tell their stories in Women Becoming Practitioner Researchers, focusing on connecting potential and current doctoral students with an understanding of what to expect in the transition from professional or schoolteacher environments to working for universities.
Subjects: Educational Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published April 2024
Difference and Sameness in Schools
Perspectives from the European Anthropology of Education
Gilliam, L. & Markom, C. (eds)
Through eleven case studies across Europe, this book looks at the handling of difference and sameness in European schools from an anthropological perspective. It offers insights into the diversity of and within these central institutions and, in a broader sense, European society itself.
Subjects: Educational Studies Anthropology (General) Sociology
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Published November 2023
Individually Ourselves
Personhood, Ethics, and Everyday Life in School
Winkler-Reid, S.
Individually Ourselves addresses the process of identity and community building through an examination of individuality and group dynamics during a formative juncture of life (based on ethnographic fieldwork in a London high school).
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Educational Studies Sociology
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Published August 2023
That Sinking Feeling
On the Emotional Experience of Inferiority in Germany's Neoliberal Education System
Wellgraf, S.
Focusing on the emotions and affective states of students from poor migrant families, That Sinking Feeling presents a uniquely multi-layered ethnography on this under-represented area in the social and cultural sciences.
Subjects: Educational Studies Sociology Anthropology (General)
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Published February 2023
The Origins of German Self-Cultivation
Bildung and the Future of the Humanities
Ham, J., Kinzel, U., & Pan, D. T.-c. (eds)
Informing current debate about the future of the humanities, this volume focuses discussions on the Bildung’s original German context using a multi-disciplinary perspective root out the interesting ways that Bildung continues to shape our understanding of self-formation.
Subjects: History (General) Educational Studies
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Published September 2022
Humboldt Revisited
The Impact of the German University on American Higher Education
Brandser, G. C.
Humboldt Revisited offers a fresh perspective on the contemporary discourse surrounding reform of European universities. Drawing from a rich selection of historical sources, this volume challenges the conventional historical narratives on the Humboldt University, providing new insight into the American reception of the German ideas.
Subjects: Educational Studies History: 20th Century to Present Sociology
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Published April 2022
Collecting Educational Media
Making, Storing and Accessing Knowledge
Hertling, A. & Carrier, P. (eds)
Over the last two centuries, collectors from around the world have historicized, politicized, and digitized media in the pursuit of knowledge and education. This collected volume explores how collections of educational media influence the ways in which people learn in both the present and future.
Subjects: Educational Studies Media Studies Cultural Studies (General)
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Published February 2022
Opening Up the University
Teaching and Learning with Refugees
Cantat, C., Cook, I., & Rajaram, P. K. (eds)
Including contributions from educators, administrators, practitioners, and students, Opening Up the University addresses specific points relating to the access and success of refugees in higher education. This expansive collected volume aims to inspire and question those who are considering creating their own interventions, suggesting concrete avenues for further action within existing academic structures.
Subjects: Educational Studies Refugee and Migration Studies Sociology
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Published February 2022
Neoliberalizing Diversity in Liberal Arts College Life
Urciuoli, B.
Far from being synonymous with race or other forms of social difference, diversity is a construct frequently contrasting with the reality of students’ lives. Neoliberalizing Diversity in Liberal Arts College Life focuses on how neoliberal diversity operates at one liberal arts college, exploring the relationship between higher education and neoliberalism.
Subjects: Educational Studies Anthropology (General) Sociology
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Published March 2021
Peripheries at the Centre
Borderland Schooling in Interwar Europe
Venken, M.
Peripheries at the Centre reveals how Prussia, and later the German Empire, used educational policy to promote national identity along its geographical margins. It shows how policymakers sought to cultivate ideal German students who, it was hoped, would help to usher in a new, peaceful era in European history while reinforcing their status as German citizens.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Educational Studies
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Published October 2020
We Come as Members of the Superior Race
Distortions and Education Policy Discourse in Sub-Saharan Africa
Mfum-Mensah, O.
We Come as Members of the Superior Race discusses the stereotype of Africans as “primitive” and “unintelligent,” exploring how this legacy has enforced contemporary educational and development discourses which view African societies as subordinated in a global geopolitical order, and how it continues to influence education policy in Sub-Sahara Africa today.
Subjects: Educational Studies Development Studies Sociology
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Published May 2020
Can Academics Change the World?
An Israeli Anthropologist's Testimony on the Rise and Fall of a Protest Movement on Campus
Shokeid, M.
Moshe Shokeid narrates his experiences as a member of AD KAN (NO MORE), a protest movement of Israeli academics at Tel Aviv University, who fought against the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories, founded during the first Palestinian intifada/uprising (1987-1993).
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Jewish Studies Anthropology (General) Educational Studies
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Published February 2020
Beyond Posthumanism
The German Humanist Tradition and the Future of the Humanities
Mathäs, A.
Against the background of debates about a revival of humanist values, this volume seeks to recast the question of the viability of the humanities by analyzing their long-disputed premises in German literature and philosophy. It emphasizes the importance of the humanities’ original mission of establishing a universal ethics by contextualizing disciplinary knowledge and making human experiences, bodily sensations, and emotions comprehensible through literary imagination.
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Educational Studies
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Published December 2019
Teaching Modernization
Spanish and Latin American Educational Reform in the Cold War
Martín García, Ó. J. & Gómez-Escalonilla, L. D. (eds)
Amid the Cold War and global student protests, transnational forces significantly shaped the modernization of educational systems in Spain and Latin America during the 1960s and 1970s. Each study sheds new light on the transnational circulation of modernization discourses, practices, and ideology within the sphere of education.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Educational Studies
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Published October 2019
The World of Children
Foreign Cultures in Nineteenth-Century German Education and Entertainment
Lässig, S. & Weiß, A. (eds)
In an era of technological advances and rapidly increasing international exchange, how did young Germans come to understand the world beyond their doorstep? Bringing together contributions from specialists in historical, literary, and cultural studies, this is a fascinating kaleidoscopic exploration of the ways that children absorbed, combined, and adapted notions of the world in their own ways.
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Cultural Studies (General) Educational Studies
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Published September 2019
Ambiguous Childhoods
Peer Socialisation, Schooling and Agency in a Zambian Village
Clemensen, N.
Drawing on rich linguistic-ethnographic details of Zambian children interacting, combined with observations of school and household procedures, the author provides a rare insight into the lives, voices, and learning paths of children in a rural African setting.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Development Studies Educational Studies
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Published August 2019
When Will We Talk About Hitler?
German Students and the Nazi Past
Oeser, A.
What do ordinary Germans think of their country’s Nazi past? Do young Germans just want to "move on?" Combining observation, interviews, and archival work, the studies conducted in this book explore these questions to reveal the complexity of history and how young Germans view Nazism’s place in contemporary society.
Subjects: History (General) Educational Studies Anthropology (General) Memory Studies
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Published June 2019
Invisible Founders
How Two Centuries of African American Families Transformed a Plantation into a College
Rainville, L.
Literal and metaphorical excavations at Sweet Briar College reveal how African American labor enabled the transformation of Sweet Briar Plantation into a private women’s college in 1906. Despite being built and maintained by African American families, the college did not integrate its student body for sixty years after it opened. Invisible Founders challenges our ideas of what a college “founder” is, restoring African American narratives to their deserved and central place in the story of a single institution.
Subjects: Archaeology History (General) Educational Studies Heritage Studies
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Published February 2019
Public Engagement and Education
Developing and Fostering Stewardship for an Archaeological Future
Erdman, K. M. (ed)
Public Engagement and Education shares effective approaches for engaging and educating learners of all ages about archaeology and how one can encourage them to become stewards of the past. Offered are applied examples that are not bound to specific geographies or cultures, but rather, are approaches that can be implemented almost anywhere.
Subjects: Archaeology Educational Studies
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Published December 2018
Transforming Study Abroad
A Handbook
Doerr, N. M.
Written for study abroad practitioners, this book approaches key study abroad concepts – such as “culture”, “native speaker”, and “immersion” – from a number of theoretical perspectives, and considers study abroad not as an encounter with cultural others, but as an occasion to analyze constructions of “differences” in daily life.
Subjects: Travel and Tourism Educational Studies Mobility Studies
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Published July 2018
Empathy and History
Historical Understanding in Re-enactment, Hermeneutics and Education
Retz, T.
The History and Function of Empathy in Historical Studies is the first comprehensive account of empathy’s place in historical scholarship, history pedagogy, and the philosophy of history. It explains how empathy became central to teaching history in schools, and traces its roots in nineteenth-century German historicism.
Subjects: History (General) Educational Studies
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Published May 2018
Dreams Made Small
The Education of Papuan Highlanders in Indonesia
Munro, J.
Dreams Made Small offers an in-depth, ethnographic look at journeys of education among young Papuans under Indonesian rule, ultimately revealing how dreams of transformation, equality, and belonging are shaped and reshaped in the face of multiple constraints.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Educational Studies Cultural Studies (General)
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Published May 2018
The Experience of Neoliberal Education
Urciuoli, B. (ed)
The college experience is increasingly positioned to demonstrate its value as a worthwhile return on investment. Specific, definable activities, such as research experience, first-year experience, and experiential learning, are marketed as delivering precise skill sets in the form of an individual educational package.
Subjects: Educational Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published December 2017
Visitors to the House of Memory
Identity and Political Education at the Jewish Museum Berlin
Bishop Kendzia, V.
By accompanying a range of senior high school history students before, during and after their visits to the museum, Visitors to the House of Memory is an intimate exploration of how young Berliners from across the city experience the Jewish Museum Berlin.
Subjects: Museum Studies Jewish Studies Educational Studies Memory Studies
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Published October 2017
Growing Up in Transit
The Politics of Belonging at an International School
Tanu, D.
Tanu offers the first ethnographic study of young people who experience high levels of international mobility while growing up, either moving across national borders or by attending international schools with trans-national student bodies.
Subjects: Mobility Studies Anthropology (General) Educational Studies
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Published October 2017
Global Exchanges
Scholarships and Transnational Circulations in the Modern World
Tournès, L. & Scott-Smith, G. (eds)
Exchanges between different cultures and institutions of learning have taken place for centuries, yet formal exchange programs did not exist until the 20th century. The essays in Global Exchanges examine the most important scholarship programs, exploring the essential contributions of organized exchange.
Subjects: Mobility Studies History: 20th Century to Present Educational Studies
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Published May 2017
Death of the Public University?
Uncertain Futures for Higher Education in the Knowledge Economy
Wright, S. & Shore, C. (eds)
Continuous government reforms to make universities ‘world class’, entrepreneurial and drivers of the knowledge economy, are transforming the traditional mission and meaning of the public university and its ability to act as ‘critic and conscience’ of society. This collection explores the new landscapes of higher education emerging across Europe and Australasia.
Subjects: Educational Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published January 2017
The Romance of Crossing Borders
Studying and Volunteering Abroad
Doerr, N. M. & Davis Taïeb, H. (eds)
What draws people to study abroad or volunteer in far-off communities? This volume explores what draws students to study or volunteer abroad. In doing so, the book sheds light on how affect is managed by educators and mobilized by students and volunteers themselves, and how these structures of feeling related to broader social and economic forces.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Travel and Tourism Educational Studies
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Published December 2016
Sensitive Pasts
Questioning Heritage in Education
Boxtel, C. van, Grever, M., & Klein, S. (eds)
Heritage studies necessarily must deal with strong emotions and political commitments. In this, it poses particular challenges for teachers and their students. Guided by a shared focus on these “sensitive pasts,” the contributors to this volume draw on new theoretical and empirical research to provide valuable insights into heritage pedagogy.
Subjects: History (General) Educational Studies Heritage Studies
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Published November 2016
Creating a New Public University and Reviving Democracy
Action Research in Higher Education
Levin, M. & Greenwood, D. J.
Morten Levin and Davydd Greenwood analyze the wreckage created by neoliberal academic administrators and policymakers, before going on to propose Action Research processes that can transform public universities back into institutions that promote academic freedom, integrity, and democracy.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Educational Studies Sociology
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Published January 2014
Hindi Is Our Ground, English Is Our Sky
Education, Language, and Social Class in Contemporary India
LaDousa, C.
Subjects: Educational Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published September 2012
Playing with Languages
Children and Change in a Caribbean Village
Paugh, A. L.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Educational Studies Sociology
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Published June 2012
The Politics of Education Reform in the Middle East
Self and Other in Textbooks and Curricula
Alayan, S., Rohde, A., & Dhouib, S. (eds)
Subjects: Educational Studies Sociology
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Published October 2011
Anthropologies of Education
A Global Guide to Ethnographic Studies of Learning and Schooling
Anderson-Levitt, K. M. (ed)
Subjects: Educational Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published March 2011
Children, Families, and States
Time Policies of Childcare, Preschool, and Primary Education in Europe
Hagemann, K., Jarausch, K. H. & Allemann-Ghionda, C. (eds)
Subjects: History (General) Educational Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published September 2010
Raising Citizens in the 'Century of the Child'
The United States and German Central Europe in Comparative Perspective
Schumann, D. (ed)
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Educational Studies
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Published February 2010
Rhodes Scholars, Oxford, and the Creation of an American Elite
Schaeper, T. & Schaeper, K.
Subjects: Educational Studies History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)
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Published May 2008
Spirits and Letters
Reading, Writing and Charisma in African Christianity
Kirsch, T. G.
Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General) Colonial History Educational Studies
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