Registration is open now for a new fall course tackling the Anthropology of Education.
This exciting new offering, ANTC22H3: Education, Power, and Potential: Anthropological Perspectives and Ethnographic Insights, will be taught by award-winning course instructor Professor Maggie Cummings. The course was offered in previous years as a popular special topics course.
Course Description:
What does it mean to get an education? What are the consequences of getting (or not getting) a “good education”? What counts as a good education, anyway? For whom? Who decides? Why does it matter? How are different kinds of education oriented toward different visions of the future? What might we learn about a particular cultural context if we explore education and learning as social processes and cultural products linked to specific cultural values, beliefs, and power dynamics? These are just some of the questions we will explore in this course. Overall, students will gain a familiarity with the anthropology of education through an exploration of ethnographic cases studies from a variety of historical and cultural contexts.
See below for a sample lecture from last year: