Minority Education: Anthropological Perspectives

by Evelyn Jacob Jaffe, Evelyn Jacob, Cathie Jordan

Book Overview

This volume brings the perspectives of educational anthropology to the consideration of the education of ethnic and linguistic minority students and to the challenges often associated with that enterprise. Built around a core of chapters originally published in the Anthropology and Education Quarterly, which presented two major anthropological perspectives on school success and failure for minority students, focuses on the cultural difference approach...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0893919373
• ISBN13: 9780893919375
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"