ANTH 202 - Foundations for Teaching:Anthropology of Education

Institution:

William Paterson University of New Jersey

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Description:

This course uses the anthropological approach to study schools and to understand the relationship between learning, teaching, schooling, and culture. It offers a holistic view of educational processes by exploring biological and cultural aspects of the acquisition, transmission and production of knowledge. It uses a comparative framework to analyze the connection between educational systems and socio-cultural contexts, and to explore the roles schools play as agents of continuity, conflict, and change in situations of cultural contact and in the new global order. Through field-based projects, students will apply the anthropological perspective to explore their own interests in education and to gain a first-hand understanding of the challenges and rewards of teaching in contemporary schools.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.wpunj.edu

Phone Number:

(973) 720-2000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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