Ethnographies of educational and cultural conflicts strategies and resolutions /

• Other Authors: Jeffrey, Bob, 1946-, Walford, Geoffrey
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier JAI, 2004.
• Series: Studies in educational ethnography ; v. 9.
• Subjects: Educational anthropology.; Educational equalization.; Ethnology.; Physical anthropology & ethnography.; Education > Research.

National Curricula need to be interpreted in terms of the cultures and experience of learners and adjusted accordingly, for example a literacy and history curriculum needs to include perspectives relevant to the local culture. Teachers, learners, families and communities mediate, appropriate, subver...