Schooling the symbolic animal: social and cultural dimensions of education

Introduction: Whither the Symbolic Animal? Society, Culture, and Education at the Millennium / Bradley A. U. Levinson

Sect. I. Symbolic Animal: Foundations of Education in Cultural Transmission and Acquisition / Bradley A. U. Levinson

1. Impact of the Concept of Culture on the Concept of Man / Clifford Geertz

2. Culture is Ordinary / Raymond Williams

3. Education of the Samoan Child / Margaret Mead

4. Stalking with Stories / Heith H. Basso

5. Education and the Human Condition / Jules Henry

6. Nature of Education / Emile Durkheim

7. Why Do Frenchmen? / Gregory Bateson

8. Becoming a Marihuana User / Howard Becker

Sect. II. Culture, Modernization, and Formal Education / Margaret Sutton

9. Shaping of Men's Minds: Adaptations to Imperatives of Culture / Yehudi A. Cohen

10. Formal Schooling and the Production of Modern Citizens in the Ecuadorian Amazon / Laura Rival

11. Transmitting Traditional Values in New Schools: Elementary Education of Pulap Atoll / Juliana Flinn

12. Cultural Transformation of Western Education in Sierra Leone / Caroline Bledsoe

Sect. III. School Practice and Community Life: Cultural Congruence, Conflict, and Discontinuity / Michele Foster

13. What No Bedtime Story Means: Narrative Skills at Home and School / Shirley Brice Heath

14. Understanding Cultural Diversity and Learning / John U. Ogbu

15. Formation and Transformation of Funds of Knowledge among U.S.-Mexican Households / Carlos G. Velez-Ibanez and James B. Greenberg

16. Habitus and Cultural Identity: Home/School Relationships in Rural France / Deborah Reed-Danahay

Sect. IV. Cultural Production and Reproduction in Contemporary Schools / Kathryn M. Borman, Amy E. Fox and Bradley A. U. Levinson

17. Ability Grouping as a Self-fulfilling Prophecy: A Microanalysis of Teacher-Student Interaction / Donna Eder

18. Beneath the Skin and between the Ears: A Case Study in the Politics of Representation / Hugh Mehan

19. Moments of Discontent: University Women and the Gender Status Quo / Dorothy C. Holland and Margaret A. Eisenhart

20. Class and Gender Dynamics in a Ruling-Class School / R. W. Connell, G. W. Dowsett and S. Kessler / [et al.]

Sect. V. New Directions in the Study of Culture, Learning, and Education / Margaret Eisenhart

21. "Those Loud Black Girls": (Black) Women, Silence, and Gender "Passing" in the Academy / Signithia Fordham

22. Tying Things Together (and Stretching Them Out) with Popular Culture / Jan Nespor

23. Fieldwork in the Postcommunity / Sherry B. Ortner

24. Fax, the Jazz Player, and the Self-storyteller: How Do People Organize Culture? / Margaret Eisenhart

Afterword: Implications for Educational Policy and Practice / Bradley A. U. Levinson and Margaret Sutton.