6-0040 AN OPEN DEBATE: SOURCES OF FAILURE AND SUCCESS IN INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION SETTINGS

Sunday, November 20, 2011: 08:00-09:45

Abstract not available in preliminary program.

This session would be of particular interest to:
Practicing and Applied Anthropologists, Teachers of Anthropology in Community Colleges

08:00

Co-Constructing Emergent Design From a Funds of Knowledge Orientation: Lessons In Rural Nicaragua

Matthew James Tarditi (University of Pennsylvania) and Sharon M Ravitch (University of Pennsylvania - Graduate School of Education)

08:15

Defining Learning Outcomes and Education Quality In Pre-Modern Societies: The Guatemalan Example.the Purpose of This Paper Is to Discuss Some of the Systemic Reasons Behind the Consistent Low Achievement Levels throughout the Guatemalan Education System I

Carlos R Ruano (World Bank Group)

08:30

Ethnic Ambassadors: Maya Teachers, Education Politics and Citizenship In Nahuala, Guatemala

John J Edvalson (University at Albany, State University of New York)

08:45

Rural Schooling and Social (Re)Production In Post Conflict Southern Sudan

Andrew I Epstein (UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN, MADISON)

09:00

The Price of Beans:Teaching the Importance of Cultural Context In Understanding "Rational" Economic Decisions

Matthew D Whittle (UC Santa Barbara)

09:15

Unruly Bodies: The Socializing of Children In School

Else Olesen (Syddansk Universitet)

09:30

Class, Status and the Colonial Shift: Resignifying Islamic Education In Pakistan

Sanaa Riaz (Arkansas State University)

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