ERIC ED086614: Can Anthropology Revolutionize Public School pdf

ERIC ED086614: Can Anthropology Revolutionize Public School

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Anthropology has the potential to influence and change current patterns of curriculum organization in the public schools. Assuming that secondary schools isolate and compartmentalize knowledge, that history dominates the social studies/social sciences to the detriment of the field, that anthropology incorporates specialists from many disciplines to solve specialized problems, then, anthropology appears as a natural “core” and opportunity for reorganization of the social studies curriculum. During the 60’s many anthropologists became concerned about education and worked to develop curriculum materials. Anthropology answers the felt need for interdisciplinary education; moreover, the anthropologist’s approach to studying cultural systems might be usefully applied to pedagogical problems. Anthropology, open to numerous levels of intellectual attack, is not a panecea for curriculum problems; it is a controversial discipline for which qualified teachers and adequate instructional materials are still lacking. Nevertheless, as a core for social studies curriculum it can facilitate activity learning, allow for instruction of social sciences methodology within its specific framework, and integrate the social sciences.

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• Creator/s: ERIC
• Date: 1973
• Year: 1973
• Book Topics/Themes: ERIC Archive, Anthropology, Core Curriculum, Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Educational Anthropology, Educational Innovation, Elementary School Curriculum, Integrated Curriculum, Interdisciplinary Approach, Social Sciences, Social Studies, Dynneson, Thomas L

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