An Anthropology of Learning On Nested Frictions in Cultural Ecologies /

• Main Author: Hasse, Cathrine (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Subjects: Education.; Anthropology.; Learning & Instruction.; Professional & Vocational Education.

This book deals with the black box of social science methodology: participant observation. From the perspective of anthropology, it explores the difference between an ethnographer as participant observer and any other participant. It discusses and gives insight into what participant observers do bef...

Table of Contents:

• Foreword
• 1. Introducing the engaged anthropologist
• 2. Culture as contested field
• 3. Collective and social cultures
• 4. Position matters!
• 5. Social designations of cultural markers
• 6. Learning from culture contrast
• 7. Towards nested engagement
• 8. Future zones of development
• 9. Epilogue. Index.