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EDUCATION AND ANTHROPOLOGY
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EDUCATION AND ANTHROPOLOGY
Edited by GEORGE D. SPINDLER
Papers from participants in the June 9-14, 1954 Conference sponsored by the School of Education and the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Stanford University and the American Anthropological Association.
The opinions, concepts, and hypotheses expressed and developed in Education and Anthropology represent a new fusion between two fields of study. Each is concerned with a special aspect of the development of man; in the main, each has hitherto approached its goals independently of the other. In the conference from which this book stems, twenty-two outstanding anthropologists and educators met to pool their thinking for mutual benefit in the two fields.
Their intent was to explore ways in which understanding of social pressures and cultural patterns can help educators to understand the role of education in the cultural process and to function effectively in a society where values, beliefs, and attitudes are changing rapidly.
The topics discussed include the history of relations between education and anthropology; the school in the community context; ways in which educational goals are defeated by conflicts between cultural ideals and action; different types of communication and teacher-student relations; ways of developing intercultural understanding through education; differences between educational needs and cultural forces in the childhood and adolescent years; the relationships between anthropological and educational theory and philosophy; methods for the study of school systems in various social environments; and the dilemma of the educator in the South, where segregation has strong social and political support but has been declared unconstitutional by Supreme Court decision. Papers on each topic, written by authorities in the respective fields, were distributed before the conference as the basis for interchange of ideas. The book includes both the papers and transcripts of the ensuing discussions, edited by Dr. Spindler, together with an overview summary by Margaret Mead, one of America's leading anthropologists with an intense and long-term interest in education.
Research and application already accomplished are reviewed incidentally to critical analysis of projected developments of education and anthropology. Specialists in education evaluate, modify, and reformulate the approaches of the anthropologists in the light of their professional experience; anthropologists apply their concepts, methods, data, and point of view to the educative process in its broadest sense.
The result of such interdisciplinary collaboration is a fully co-operative product, filled with new concepts, hypotheses, and approaches. In the discussion of the effects of racial desegregation in Southern schools, practical suggestions show what kinds of data and ideas the anthropologists could organize to present to educators faced with the task of implementing the Supreme Court decision-a "field problem" of considerable importance.
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Title: Education and Anthropology Editor: George D. Spindler
Publisher: Stanford University Press, 1955 ISBN: 080473822X
Authors of papers by: L. James Quillen, George D. Spindler, Bernard J. Siegel, John Gillen, Solon T. Kimball, Cora DuBois, C.W.M. Hart, Dorothy Lee, Jules Henry, and Theodore Brameld
Commentaries and discussions by the above and: Felix M. Keesing, Robert N. Bush, Hilda Taba, Lawrence K. Frank, William E. Martin, Margaret Mead, Fannie R. Shaftel, Paul R. Hanna, Arthur P. Coladarci, William H. Cowley, Lawrence G. Thomas, and Alfred L. Kroeber
Land of Fair Promise Politics and Reform in Los Angeles Schools, 1885-1941
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Land of Fair Promise
Politics and Reform in Los Angeles Schools, 1885-1941
Judith Rosenberg Raftery
This book uses a case study of education and educational reform in Los Angeles as a lens for viewing a wide range of political and cultural questions involved in urban development in the American West, notable the manner and motives of those who changes school policy.
Rapid population growth after 1885 and the recognition that large numbers of school children were either non-white or non-English-speaking compelled Western Progressives to reestablish order and end corrupt schoolboard practices. Drawing on the ideas of Jane Addams and John Dewey, reformers made the Los Angeles school system an instance of apparently effective reform, not only in educational terms, but also administratively and in the broad range of social services provided under school direction -- penny-lunch programs, after-hour playgrounds, day-care centers, adult classes, and home classes for shut-in mothers. But these achievements bore increasingly equivocal results as industrialization, immigration, and urbanization contributed to immense social and economic problems, and reformers intensified programs to Americanize immigrant children. More complicated and divisive progressive politics vied increasingly with professionalization and grassroots pressure from immigrant groups to determine education policy.
Many of the leading Los Angeles reformers were women, newly empowered by suffrage, who expanded their campaigns for social change. Also, since women composed most of the teaching force, they began to see themselves as professional educators. But professionalization proved to be a double-edged sword. Better trained than their predecessors, women nevertheless had to fight to hold on to their status as the school system became more efficient, more structured, and more impersonal. Professionalization also led to clashes between professionals; psychologists introduced IQ measurement, and many classroom teachers found mental testing unreliable and sought alternate methods to evaluate the abilities of children.
Reformers, educators, and ethnic organizations worked assiduously to modify the social behavior of the now-diverse school population. Despite differences, these groups together built a new social fabric, a patchwork shaped by the unrelenting realities of twentieth-century America. the book is illustrated with 14 photographs.
Judith Rosenberg Raftery is Assistant Professor of History at California State University, Chico.
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Title Land of fair promise: politics and reform in Los Angeles schools, 1885-1941
Author Judith Rosenberg Raftery
Edition illustrated
Publisher Stanford University Press, 1992
ISBN 0804719306, 9780804719308
Length 284 pages
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