An Anthropological Perspective
Exploring the interplay between the Anthropocene and globalization, this book delves into their profound impacts on education and human learning. It highlights how these contemporary challenges reshape pedagogical approaches and learning experiences, urging a reevaluation of educational practices in response to evolving societal dynamics.
Book by Wulf, Christoph;Network Educational Science Amsterdam
The Image between the Visible and the Invisible
In this interdisciplinary anthology, essays study the relationship between the imagination and images both material and mental. Through case studies on a diverse array of topics including photography, film, sports, theater, and anthropology, contributors focus on the role of the creative imagination in seeing and producing images and the imaginary.
At a time of profound political, social and cultural change, one crucial question is how to conceive the relation between culture and education. Understanding this relation is at present all the more urgent as the traditional attribution of education to the charge of each respective European national culture is currently undergoing radical change.
The Staging and Performing of Rituals in the Lives of Young People
Rituals play a central role in the development of individual and collective identity. This is particularly true for young people, who are tractable to a great extent. Rituals are productive. While they were previously made a subject of discussion under the aspects of stereotyping, rigidity and violence, this examination concentrates on productive moments of rituals that contribute to making and forming the identity of communities and individuals. In ritual processes, the body, the senses and the performative actions of all parties involved play an important role. Rituals serve the community as a medium for generating and dealing with differences, for overcoming crises and for structuring transitions. Our ethnographic study shows how social relationships are formed in performative processes of rituals and ritualisations. In this sense, the focus is on the dramaturgy and organisation of ritual interactions and their effects, on scenic-mimetic expressivity, on the performance and staging character, and on the practical knowledge of social action. Four central socialisation fields of performative ritual action are the living environment of the family, transitions in everyday school life, games children play at recess and media stagings of peer groups. Ritual action is also defined as practical mimetic knowledge, and the city is characterised as performative space.
Der Band vereinigt die wichtigsten internationalen, transdisziplinären Beiträge zur Historischen Anthropologie aus den letzten beiden Jahrzehnten.
