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Author Wax, Murray Lionel, 1922-

Title Anthropological perspectives on education. / Edited by Murray L. Wax, Stanley Diamond [and] Fred O. Gearing.

Publication Info. New York : Basic Books, [1971]

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Description xv, 392 pages ; 25 cm
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 307-384.
Contents pt. 1. Theoretical and methodological: Cultural and linguistic: Great tradition, little tradition, and formal education / Murray L. Wax and Rosalie H. Wax ; Shaping of men's minds: adaptations to the imperatives of culture / Yehudi A. Cohen ; On linguistic theory, communicative competence, and the education of disadvantaged children / Dell Hymes -- Ethnopsychological and precultural: Early childhood experience and later education in complex cultures / Margaret Mead ; On the importance of the study of primate behavior for anthropologists / Sherwood L. Washburn -- Social and institutional: Handle with care: necessary precautions in the anthropology of schools / Harry F. Wolcott ; Comments on the science of teaching / Paul Goodman ; Art and science of teaching / Francis A.J. Ianni -- pt. 2. Schools in modern urban society: Mass education: general: Citizenship or certification / Thomas F. Green ; School as a small society / Bud B. Khleif ; Is education possible? / Jules Henry ; Toward a philosophy of education given the crisis in mass education in our times / John R. Seeley -- Mass education: research reports: Theoretical and methodological problems in the study of schools / Eleanor B. Leacock ; Interplay of forces in the development of a small school system / Donald Horton ; Rhetoric versus reality: a study of New York City high school principals / Arthur J. Vidich and Charles McReynolds -- Nations and enclaves: Education, modernization, and the process of national integration / Helen Icken Safa ; Indians, hillbillies, and the "education problem" / Robert K. Thomas and Albert L. Wahrhaftic -- Learning in American Indian children / Courtney B. Cazden and Vera P. John ; Education of the Negro child / Jules Henry -- pt. 3. Tools for further research in anthropology and education: Comparative research upon the schools and education / Murray L. Wax -- Epilogue / Stanley Diamond -- World bibliography of anthropology and education with annotations (contents, abbreviations, guide, listings by area and nation) / Harry M. Lindquist.
Subject Educational anthropology.
Educational anthropology.
Anthropologie et éducation.
Added Author Diamond, Stanley, 1922-
Gearing, Fred O., 1922-
ISBN 0465003419
9780465003419