The literature of higher education and campus rhetoric convey the impression that academic change is rampant. Organizational gridlock and exceptionally limited change are more apt characterizations of campus life. Ethnographic studies of change in the academy would help to determine the validity of both assertions. The qualitative research community, however, appears to avoid studies of the academy. Reasons for a collective "averted gaze" are here examined.Making the strange familiar will remain a basic task in transcultural ethnography. Making the familiar strange will continue to be a basic problem in the anthroethnography of schooling in our society.-Spindler (1988:43)
In this article, I examine three themes: (a) the ubiquitous discussion ofAnthropology & Education Quarterly 31(1)5-23.
Newsweek and Time will, with regularity, provide negative assessments of the public schools and teacher education. They will accurately report that public education is in serious trouble and that schools of education continue to be the stepchildren of the academy. Studies such as the recent Coleman examination of public and private education will proliferate. They will have the effect of further
In order to become first-rate professional schools, scholarship must be the first order of business in teacher preparation. Education, suggests Wisniewski, is a fer tile field for scholarly inquiry. Further more, the complexity of teaching and teacher education makes on-going study imperative. That study must center not only on classroom phenomena, but on the culture and ethos of the institutions responsible for training prospective teachers.
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