What Does It Mean to Be an Activist Scholar? Re‐Imagining Our Responses as Anthropologists of Education to Contemporary Challenges | Zendy

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What Does It Mean to Be an Activist Scholar? Re‐Imagining Our Responses as Anthropologists of Education to Contemporary Challenges

Author(s) -

Schultz Katherine

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

anthropology and education quarterly

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531

H-Index - 46

eISSN - 1548-1492

pISSN - 0161-7761

DOI - 10.1111/aeq.12063

Subject(s) - sociology , work (physics) , term (time) , educational anthropology , global south , frame (networking) , social science , gender studies , ethnography , media studies , anthropology , geography , economic geography , mechanical engineering , telecommunications , physics , quantum mechanics , computer science , engineering

In this address, I ask: What do we bring as anthropologists and educators to our work? Two projects frame my arguments: my work with teachers in A ceh, I ndonesia after the 2004 tsunami and my term on a school board in an impoverished U . S . city. I conclude that at a time when challenges are simultaneously local and global, immediate and long term, we must draw from both fields while working for sustainable change and a more just world.

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