Master Program in Educational Anthropology

Project Number: DK2

Country: Denmark

Institutions/Departments: Department of Educational Anthropology, Danish School of Education, Aarhus University

URL: http://kandidat.au.dk/paedagogiskantropologi/

Publication/Material: Pedagogical Anthropology – approaches and concepts (Pædagogisk antropologi - tilgange og begreber, E: Gulløv, G. B. Nielsen and I. W. Winther (eds), 2017, Reitzel: https://hansreitzel.dk/products/padagogisk-antropologi-tilgange-og-begreber-bog-39933-9788741263236

Pedagogical Anthropology: Reflections on field-based knowledge (Pædagogisk antropologi : refleksioner over feltbaseret viden), U.A. Madsen (ed) 2005, Hans Reitzels Forlag: https://hansreitzel.dk/products/padagogisk-antropologi-bog-15647-9788741223803 

Project leader and contact person: Head of Department: Ida Wenzel Winther

Duration: Ongoing

Short Description:

This 2-year Masters Program in Educational Anthropology, taught in Danish) teaches students to analyse cultural forms, structural conditions and social processes from a broad range of educational anthropological perspectives. Students carry out independent ethnographic fieldwork on topics of their choice and with focus on a broad array of educational issues, analyse the worldviews, values, relationality, sociality and power relations of social groups and individuals. They work with central theoretical and thematic problems (for ex. self-formation, ways of learning and knowing, technology, child-rearing, higher education, human mobility, environment) within the anthropological subfield of education and pedagogy. Also international program: Masters of Anthropology of Education and Globalization (in English)

Implementation: Obligatory and elective courses, ethnographic methods, fieldwork, master’s theses

Target Group(s), age & context: Students with a professional or university BA: teachers, pedagogues, nurses, police, social workers, and more.

Approach/Method: Lectures, group work, discussion, presentations, group and individual exams.

Type: 2-year Master program

Funding: University of Aarhus

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