Margaret Mead Contributions to Contemporary Education /

• Main Author: Maguire, Kate (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Education,
• Subjects: Education.; Educational sociology.; Anthropology.; Education and sociology.; Sociology, Educational.; Sociology of Education.

This book makes a case for Margaret Mead's contributions to education discourses, which in retrospect appear visionary and profoundly democratic, non judgemental and transdisciplinary, and for their relevance for education today at primary, secondary and tertiary levels. Mead combined her subst...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: An Anthropologist on Earth
• Preparing Children for the Future: Modernity
• Reconfiguring Relationships with the Young: Supermodernity
• The Epistemology of Ignorance: Embodied Emancipation
• Education is Democracy: Margaret Mead the American
• Research, Transdisciplinarity, Translation: A way to the Future in the Present
• Ethnography as a Research Approach: ‘Understanding’ and Inclusion
• Anthropology Educates
• Educators as Ethnographers
• Purpose and Relevance
• Conclusion: Using Margaret Mead.