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Abotsi, Emma; Hoechner, Hannah – Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 2022
Studies on migration and education have examined homeland returns as part of family strategies around acquiring desired cultural capital. However, the impact of return migration and transnational mobility on homeland educational landscapes remains under-researched. Using ethnographic data from Ghana, Senegal, the UK and the US, this paper shows…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Migration, Educational Change, Immigrants
Juffermans, Kasper; Van Camp, Kirsten – Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 2013
Drawing on fieldwork in a primary school in rural Gambia, West Africa, this article foregrounds the notion of voice as analytical heuristics for understanding language in education. Arguing for more attention to voices from the field and for critical reflection on the researcher's voice in research, the article addresses the ways in which school…
Descriptors: Stakeholders, Elementary Schools, Ethnography, Foreign Countries
Cruz Banks, Ojeya – Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 2010
This dance ethnography examines work conducted by the Dambe Project--a nonprofit organization that specializes in African performing arts education and mentorship. The study focuses on the implications of the organization's dance pedagogy in light of its postcolonial context and the importance of West African dance education in the United States.…
Descriptors: Dance Education, Ethnography, Nonprofit Organizations, Mentors
Morris, Jerome E. – Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 2003
Examines how the unfolding events in one classroom lesson brought to the fore the extent to which schools and educators explicitly draw connections between the social and historical relationship of African Americans and foreign-born blacks. A personal accounting of journeys to Africa captures how the author arrived at using a sociopolitical lens…
Descriptors: African Culture, Blacks, Foreign Countries, Middle Schools
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Stambach, Amy – Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 1996
The role of schooling in social and economic transformations occurring in Sub-Saharan Africa is examined. Compares Chagga cultural ideas about land and livestock with the model of social development in the Tanzanian agricultural science syllabus. Discusses how schooling affects the structuring of social differences. (MMU)
Descriptors: Adolescents, African Culture, Agricultural Education, Cultural Influences
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Schwille, Sharon A. – Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 2000
Explores two main themes in Gerald Fast's paper about living and teaching in Zimbabwe: learning from cultural immersion (e.g., protocols as help and hindrance, supportive cultural structures, and immersion experience as a constructive or constricting teacher) and clarifying one's teaching philosophy and practices. Discusses learning through making…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Consciousness Raising, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Differences
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Sudarkasa, Niara – Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 1982
Describes effects of colonial rule on patterns of indigenous African education, division of labor, and social stratification. Explores changing patterns in educational and occupational sex roles in twentieth-century Africa, focusing on the changing position of women. (Author/MJL)
Descriptors: Colonialism, Cultural Influences, Education Work Relationship, Educational Attainment