The nearly 100 citations here refer to material cited in the 11 preceding articles. Together they make up this special issue, entitled "Teaching Fieldwork to Educational Researchers: A Symposium." (GC)

Because educational researchers are becoming interested in the uses of ethnographic field methods, the author examines some of the theoretical disputes and methodological problems being experienced in contemporary anthropology, such as hypothesis testing, observer bias, and reliability. (Part of a theme issue on anthropology of education.) (SJL)

Relationship between evaluation methods and objectives and ideology is discussed. The need for qualitative rather quantitative assessment is emphasized. (RW)

Reviews the contributions of G. Spindler and L. Spindler to anthropology in "The American Cultural Dialogue and Its Transmission" (Falmer Press, 1990), "Interpretive Ethnography and Education: At Home and Abroad" (Lawrence Erlbaum, 1987), and "Education and Cultural Process: Anthropological Approaches" (Waveland…

Outlines as a goal for the field of educational anthropology the study of how education after compulsory schooling is interpreted by its diverse participants. Suggests the study of acquiring educational credentials as another area that warrants exploration in the ongoing study of how postsecondary education helps to structure society. (SLD)

Universities are under no less pressure to adopt risk management strategies than other public and private organisations. The risk management of doctoral education is a particularly important issue given that a doctorate is the highest academic qualification a university offers and stakes are high in terms of assuring its quality. However, intense…

This paper presents an overview of anthropological approaches to studying mathematics classrooms, programs, and innovations in schools. Focus is placed on teaching and learning and programs and innovations from an anthropological point of view. An explanation of how the education of cultural groups could be included in these perspectives is also…

The author, an anthropologist, relates her experiences in Zambia, pointing out that African children do enjoy meaningful cognitive activities and are continually learning in their daily out-of-school lives, yet the formal, authoritarian, European school model fails to utilize these experiences or often even to recognize their existence. (EH)

The academic present and the academic future are linked to the past as a consideration of the combative, or agonistic, structure of historic academic life indicates. (JH)

This bibliography includes 26 items with brief annotations. The cited documents include books, journal articles, government reports, and newspaper articles. Emphasis is placed on the Japanese impact on Chinese education during the Japanese occupation of parts of China during the Sino-Japanese War and World War II. While most of the items are…

This study examines the socialization and enculturation process by which one becomes a school board member, using adult socialization and small group theory to construct a model of the role personalization process. Thirteen new school board members in seven Arizona school districts were interviewed indepth, from the announcement of their candidacy…

A respected method of studying comparative education is that of analyzing national character and assessing its impact on methods and systems of education. Like anthropologists, comparative educators must immerse themselves in a society in order to study its educational system. This analogy raises the issue of methodology, and many studies have…

The role of the school has been expanded today to include not only the perpetuation of culture and knowledge but also the creation of both. It is not surprizing then that schools lag in teaching about that which no one knows: how to deal with today's pressing social problems. (JH)

This paper is concerned with various aspects of the philosophy and training of school psychologists in several countries around the world and offers some thoughts about the possible implications of the different approaches. (Author)

What is the relationship of ethnicity to students' experiences in and responses to schooling? How is success in school related to ethnicity? In this dissertation the schools and community of St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, provide the setting for a multi-ethnic comparative case study in educational anthropology which addresses these questions.…