Educational Anthropology
Code
722170084
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Antropologia
Credits
10
Weekly hours
3 letivas + 1 tutorial
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
1. Analyze the contribution of anthropology to the study of educational processes;
2. Develop the ability to analyze the cultural processes of teaching / learning;
3. Develop the capacity for analysis and evaluation of the dynamics present in the school education system and the
relationship between school and society.
4. Develop methodologic skills in the field of Anthropology of Education.
Prerequisites
None.
Subject matter
1. History of Anthropology of Education and the development of this subdiscipline in Portugal.
2. Contexts and processes of teaching / learning and the non-school transmission of culture.
3. An anthropological debate - cultures and epistemologies of childhood?
4. The ethnography of the school. Methodological tools for research in schools.
5. Literacy and orality as forms of social organization of thought.
6. Multiculturalism, interculturalism and the role of the anthropologist as mediator.
Bibliography
GOODY, Jack (1988 [1977]) Domesticação do Pensamento Selvagem, Lisboa: Presença.
ITURRA, Raúl (1990a) Fugirás à Escola para Trabalhar a Terra. Ensaios de Antropologia Social sobre o Insucesso Escolar, Lisboa: Escher.
JAMES, A., JENKS, C. e PROUST, A. (1998) Theorizing Childhood, Cambridge: Polity Press.
SOUTA, Luís (1997) Multiculturalidade e Educação, Lisboa: Profedições.
SPINDLER, G. (ed.) (2000) Fifty Years of Anthropology and Education 1950-2000: A Spindler Anthology, Nova Iorque: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Teaching method
Lectures and discussion seminars of theoretical texts and case studies.
Evaluation method