EDUCATIONAL ANTHROPOLOGY -Education with its Social, Cultural, Linguistic and Ethnographic Dimensions-

Social and cultural anthropology, which started to focus on education through child-rearing, childhood and psychological anthropology studies, gradually focused on education, class, ethnicity, language and religion, as well as with space, production, relations, institutions, etc. formed a coherent point of view. Thanks to ethnography, anthropologists write studies that can go into details and aim to understand and explain the community in depth and pattern. Learning, teaching, school and schooling, acculturation, identity, difference, discrimination, access to education, adequacy of educational opportunities, etc. They conduct research that addresses economic, political and social inequalities.
With the aim of making an introductory contribution to the developing educational anthropology studies in Turkey, this book covers educational anthropology with a broad perspective from the history of education to school ethnographies, the content of anthropology to its theories, the importance of language in education to cultural heritage, multiculturalism and globalization. Thus, the book offers a versatile content that appeals to sociology and educational sciences as well as social and cultural anthropology.