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Educational anthropology. Educational anthropology, or the anthropology of education, is a sub-field of socio-cultural anthropology that focuses on the role that culture has in education, as well as how social processes and cultural relations are shaped by educational settings. [1] To do so, educational anthropologists focus on education and ...
George Dearborn Spindler was a leading figure in 20th-century anthropology and regarded as the founder of the anthropology of education. [1] [2] He edited a very large series of short monographs, turning nearly every significant ethnographic text of the 20th century into a shorter work accessible to the public and to anthropology students ...
Anthropological Forum: since 1963, published by Taylor & Francis and hosted by the University of Western Australia. Anthropological Quarterly: since 2001, published by the George Washington University 's Institute for Ethnographic Research. Cultural Anthropology: quarterly journal published by Wiley-Blackwell and the American Anthropological ...
Between 1970 and 1975, Wulf was a researcher at the German Institute for International Research in Education in Frankfurt. In 1973, he obtained his PhD, and in 1975 his habilitation from Marburg and was appointed Professor of Education at the University of Siegen. Wulf has held the position of Professor of Anthropology and Education at the Free ...
t. e. Anthropology is the scientific study of humanity, concerned with human behavior, human biology, cultures, societies, and linguistics, in both the present and past, including archaic humans. [ 1 ] Social anthropology studies patterns of behavior, while cultural anthropology studies cultural meaning, including norms and values. [ 1 ]
Waldorf education, also known as Steiner education, is based on the educational philosophy of Rudolf Steiner, the founder of anthroposophy. Its educational style is holistic, intended to develop pupils' intellectual, artistic, and practical skills, with a focus on imagination and creativity. Individual teachers have a great deal of autonomy in ...
t. e. Ruth Fulton Benedict (June 5, 1887 – September 17, 1948) was an American anthropologist and folklorist. She was born in New York City, attended Vassar College, and graduated in 1909. After studying anthropology at the New School of Social Research under Elsie Clews Parsons, she entered graduate studies at Columbia University in 1921 ...
Anthropology of kinship. Don Kulick (born 5 September 1960) [1] is a Swedish anthropologist and linguist who is the professor of anthropology at Uppsala University. Kulick works within the frameworks of both cultural and linguistic anthropology, and has carried out field work in Papua New Guinea, Brazil, Italy and Sweden.