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More than Playgrounds: Locating the Lingering Traces of Educational Anthropology
Author(s) -
Vasudevan Lalitha
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.12065
Subject(s) - temporality , sociology , ethnography , participatory action research , action (physics) , citizen journalism , work (physics) , applied anthropology , presidential address , epistemology , anthropology , political science , law , public administration , mechanical engineering , philosophy , physics , quantum mechanics , engineering
When anthropologists of education, who embrace an activist or action‐focused orientation, locate their work within community‐based settings, they bear a responsibility to act in ways that not only produce new knowledge but that are also responsive to the immediate circumstances. K atherine S chultz's P residential A ddress evokes two related tensions: one is a tension of temporality wherein the contexts of our research may seek and demand greater urgency in how we enact ourselves than may be typical of anthropological work. A second tension involves how knowledge is produced in and about these contexts. Both of these tensions are explored through a discussion of K athy's research and a long‐term, community‐based project located in an alternative to detention program where I have been engaged in participatory ethnographic research for close to a decade.