May 6, 2000
First day of Anthropology and Education
Robert Kemper
Oficina: 405 Heroy
Tel. 214-768-2928/Fax 214-768-2906
Email: rkemper@mail.smu.edu
ANTH 6306 "La Antropia y la educacion:
Fondos de sabiduria/Conocimiento
Meet Monday – 5:30 -
Meeting at 7:30 p.m. at Heroy with the community support team,
Our next meeting is not till two weeks later. Till May 23, 2000 27, June 5, and 7.
June 5-7 these are the times that we are to present oral report on funds of knowledge project. We will get 15 minutes to report.
Project/El Proyecto
Lecturas/Readings
Tutoring-write up 1 piece (lecture/readings ..peer to peer basis with our Vietnamese classmate)
Community Meeting Report – MAS..on Monday 8, 2000 at Heroy Hall.
-------write some objective summary and an opinion piece ---like a reflection.
You have a responsibility to say what the author wanted to say and then you can give your side, give a review. I.e. That was fine , but….or I am totally in agreement with. Imagine if you had to summarize your opponent’s side in a debate you would want to study both sides and be prepared to debate.
Everything is due at the end. You may turn in things before like on the 23rd.
Get a three ring binder and put everything in it, this will be your notebook, which needs to be copied, because SMU will keep a copy of it and you will make a copy for yourself.
Read the material on funds on knowledge before Monday.
We need to send out the parent questionnaire on Monday, so we can get it back Tuesday.
When you bring different parents in and have them contribute somehow to the overall lesson plan, performance goes up. The parents become involved, they get hooked in and take an active role in school thus their children benefit.
This has been a positive experience in the past in project MAS and the schools of Project MAS teachers.
The skill or demonstration that the parent gives must be of curricular significance has to be related somehow to he curriculum.
It is our obligation to demonstrate this, in terms of our lesson plans.
I.e. we are doing an art lesson, our purpose is to work on colors, shades, primary colors, secondary colors, etc. so you would find someone who knows about painting that is a parent. This needs to make sense to our administrators and fit in the whole scheme of things. Once it’s success is felt, the other teachers will want to do it. This is the rationale to our approach to education, this model demonstrates that the teacher does not know everything, he/she is more like a guide. We can bring different talents from the community.
One of the problems with parents and schools think of the school as a very specialized place, something foreign to them. We need to bring them in and make them part of the school and be extensions of the school.
If you come from a place where not going to school is the norm, having a couple of years of school is better than average.
Diversity has always been the norm in this country – when the declaration of independence was written it came close to being published in German.
But we have gotten into a period of time where this is conflictive- i.e. English as the official language. Diversity in a America – you can get on the Internet for under $15.00
Take home final – it’s like and essay.
One of them will be a speech to congress.
Mexico has over 60 languages recognized by the government. Third most languages in the world.
Trabajo de Campo
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Describir Traducir Explicar Interpretar Bottom up |
Much of educational research is driven by hypothesis testing. Because somehow in our society Science is more valuable than ART.
Ethnografia
Hypothetical testing
Top-down’
Science
Results data
*There is an interesting tension between the science and Art humanism
Art history humanism
Science
How do you observe your class – systematically.
The scientific model says a causes b.
The interpretative model does not say a causes b, it has to do more with the complex relationships that exist between a and b.
Occams (Occam was a medieval philosopher) truth – if there are two explanations for something, the simpler one is correct.
Book
Mexico Profundo – Una civilizacion negada – por Guillermo Bonfil Batalla.
After lunch
Teacher research on funds of knowledge-
Culture/Cultura | Society/Sociedad
What is culture? – Is it fragile, is it constant.
Culture is hard to get a handle on, but what we can say, is that these are the characteristics.
Culture is learned –
It is shared –
Expressed through symbols
Structured/Integrated/system
Culture is dynamic – it does change – and it is adaptive changes with respect to the environment.
Geographers would argue that culture is simply the interaction between the environment and humanity, but it is much more complex than this.
If this geographer’s perspective was true you could simply take the similar conditions of two different parts of the world and predict or replicate their culture.
Culture is not directly observable but we see it’s manifestations – we see the close people wear, and we also see the clothes people do not wear.
We do not directly observe culture.
We have ideals, we have expectations, and we have reality.
The manifestations of culture is more observable in rituals, weddings, parties, celebrations and their differences are apparent from culture to culture.
Ideals – >Expectations – >Reality
Culture is very complex – each one of us is different and we interact with each other differently you have a bunch of venn diagrams interacting.
We have to have enough understanding to communicate and not kill each other off as a species.
We also need to understand our relationship with other species as well.
We share a very small percentage of common ground -–we have a little bit in common but enough to get along – (sometimes).
Society is the world of human interaction
Society involves shared patterns of behavior –
Society is about groups of people, these groups of people share common culture.
Kulture – Culture came from German tradition
Societe – came from French tradition
One of the ideas of shared patterns of behavior is
à shared cognitive orientations
à shared goals
à Norms/regulations for behaviors
What is the process to decide what is acceptable and non-acceptable to solve a problem.
How do we provide provision for the needs of the members of society. How much food, clothing, etc.
How do we meet peoples needs…
Role differentiation –
Recruitment – social growth – immigration bringing people into the system from the outside.
People know about things now instantly! we are becoming more and more a global society but we do not talk about it - yet, we have a lot of tension still in the U.S.
Corporations get beyond this, coca-cola has a U.S.A division, it is no longer that the U.S.A is higher up in the hierarchy/superior in their corporate chart.
The question of recruitment in the context of where people come from and the role of bilingual education – how does a school district cope with a high level of diversity where more than 100 different languages are spoken, the answer is not very well.
The half life of knowledge is shorter and shorter, the stuff we know know will not be relevant five years from now, we do not teach facts we teach processes.
How we recruit the best people into your society, there is a premium in being in this society.
What society is about – the stuff that we can see, how we organize ourselves in space is arbitrary, the proof of that is that the species has lasted a long time and has been arranged many different ways.
The idea of progress is part of the value of getting ahead.
Monday night we will be in 153
Language and culture go together, we transmit our understandings of the world through symbols.
The example Dr. Kemper gave regarding the parties in Mexico with Americans and the acceptable social distance.
