Anthropology of Education

Effect of Socio-Economic Characteristics on Food Security of Small Scale Farmers in Rawalpindi

About half of the population in Pakistan is food insecure. The study focused the food secure population and the strategies for reducing poverty in district Rawalpindi. The study was carried out in district Rawalpindi in the Punjab province of Pakistan. Simple random sampling technique was used for this research study in district Rawalpindi. A sample of 120 respondents was selected. Then the dat...

Anthropology of Rural Tourism (Case of Study: Masoule Village)

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...

The professionalization of Iranian hospital social workers

Introduction: Identity is formed through our understanding ofourselves and what others perceive of our actions and how we dothings. Formation of professional identity includes development,advancement and socialization through social learning of specificknowledge and skills obtained within the context of professionalroles, new attitudes and values.Methods: This qualitative study used content ana...

Depopulating the Himalayan Highlands: Education and Outmigration From Ethnically Tibetan Communities of Nepal

*Corresponding author: [email protected] Washington University in St. Louis, Department of Anthropology, 1 Brookings Drive, St. Louis, MO 63130, USA Dartmouth College, Department of Anthropology, 6047 Silsby Hall, Hanover, NH 03755, USA 3 Case Western Reserve University, Department of Anthropology, 11220 Bellflower Road, Cleveland, OH 44106-7125, USA Oxford University, Clinical Research Unit, K...

The Anthropological Determination of Pedagogy

Pedagogy has always been open to other disciplines that reflect about the educational process (philosophy, sociology, psychology, anthropology, technology, etc.). Its interdisciplinary openness puts education, as the subject of pedagogy within a broader context of the community, enabling the knowledge of other disciplines to contribute to a better understanding of the fundamental pedagogical no...