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Contents

Introduction: The Anthropological Study of Schools. Presenting European Anthropology of Education
Laura Gilliam and Christa Markom

Part I: Constructing and Handling Difference and Sameness in the Everyday of School

Chapter 1. Rendering Sameness and Difference Pedagogical. Care for Kindergarten Pupils in a Stigmatized Swiss Suburb
Ursina Jaeger

Chapter 2. Teaching Equality, Teaching Hierarchy: Moral Lessons in the Schools of the Danish Welfare State
Laura Gilliam

Chapter 3. Approaching Difference through Control or Care: Diverging School Ethos in the Norwegian Unified School
Ingrid Smette

Chapter 4. “Silencing” or “Being Silent” from a Child-Centred Perspective: Accomplices to the Invisibility of Differences in an Austrian School
Christa Markom

Part II: Constructing and Handling Difference and Sameness through the Policies, Curriculum and Structures of School

Chapter 5. Schooling and Age Imaginaries: Establishing the Foundations of Sameness and Difference in an English Secondary School
Patrick Alexander

Chapter 6. Education and integration of the Others: Roma Education in the Czech Republic
Markéta Levínská, David Doubek and Dana Bittnerová

Chapter 7. Regionalism and Minority Identities in Putin’s Russia: Ethnographic Perspectives on School Education and Belonging
Dilyara Müller-Suleymanova

Chapter 8. Activating Muslims: Citizenship in Dutch Islamic schools#
Jamal Ahajjaj, Martijn de Koning and Thijl Sunier

Chapter 9. Teaching History and Performing the Nation: The Production of National Citizens in Greek Primary Education
Ioannis Manos

Part III: Special Contributions

Chapter 10. Anthropology and/in Intercultural Education in Italy: The Winding Roads to Diversity and Identity
Francesca Gobbo

Chapter 11. Civil Enculturation in The Netherlands, Britain, Germany, and France: a Look Back and Ahead
Sabine Mannitz and Thijl Sunier

Afterword: Towards an Anthropology of Education in Europe: Insights, Challenges and Potential
Spyrou Spyros

Difference and Sameness in Schools

Perspectives from the European Anthropology of Education

Edited by Laura Gilliam & Christa Markom

366 pages, bibliog., index

ISBN 978-1-80539-476-1 Hb Published (April 2024)

eISBN 978-1-80539-477-8 eBook

Details

“This book is the product of high levels of expertise and provides a great deal of information and insights about how schools in different regions of Europe deal with the contemporary challenge of diversity (difference) and ‘sameness’.” • Cristina Allemann-Ghionda, University of Cologne

Presenting European Anthropology of Education through eleven studies of European schools, this volume explores the constructing and handling of difference and sameness in the central institutions of schools. Based on ethnographic studies of schools in Greece, England, Norway, Italy, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, Spain, Austria, Russia, Germany, the Netherlands and Denmark, it illustrates how anthropological studies of schools provide a window to larger society. It thus offers insights into cultural lessons taught to children through policies, institutional structures and everyday interactions, as well as into schools’ entanglement in state projects, cultural processes, societal histories and conflicts, and hence into contemporary Europe.

Laura Gilliam is an anthropologist and Associate Professor in Educational Anthropology, at School of Education, Aarhus University, Denmark. With Eva Gulløv, she is the author of Children of the Welfare State: Civilizing Practices in Schools, Childcare and Families, (Pluto Books, 2017).

Christa Markom is an anthropologist and senior lecturer in educational anthropology in the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Vienna.

Series: Volume 48, EASA Series

Subject: Educational Studies Anthropology (General) Sociology

Area: Europe

BISAC: SOC002010 SOCIAL SCIENCE/Anthropology/Cultural & Social; PSY017000 PSYCHOLOGY/Interpersonal Relations; SOC026030 SOCIAL SCIENCE/Sociology/Urban