Education, anthropology, ontologies

Anthropology and Education

Ethnomathematics is the study of mathematical ideas and practices situated in their cultural context. Culturally Situated Design Tools (CSDTs) are web-based software applications that allow students to create simulations of cultural arts—Native American beadwork, African American cornrow hairstyles, urban graffiti, and so forth—using these underlying mathematical principles. This article is a r...

Anthropology of Education

Linguistic Anthropology of Education

Linguistic anthropological theories and methods have enriched our understanding of education. Almost all education is mediated by language, and linguistic anthropologists use both precise linguistic analyses and powerful anthropological theories to describe how educational language use establishes important social relations. Because educational institutions influence processes of concern to ant...

Ontologies in Higher Education

Knowledge Management (KM) is based in large part on systems that help users focus their attention on key information that is relevant, timely, and available on-demand. The preparation of this information requires processes for knowledge acquisition, engineering, and representation because “knowledge and expertise are embedded within otherwise diverse and scattered information sources” (Convera,...

Beyond Macro and Micro in the Linguistic Anthropology of Education

This special issue explores whether the heuristics “macro” and “micro” capture the most important levels of explanation in the anthropology of education. Recent work suggests that we must move beyond a macro–micro approach. This introduction sketches reasons for going beyond macro and micro and reviews alternative approaches to explaining cultural and educational processes. The following articl...