Difference and Sameness in Schools

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Difference and Sameness in Schools is written by Laura Gilliam and published by Berghahn Books. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1805394770 (ISBN 10) and 9781805394778 (ISBN 13).

Presenting European Anthropology of Education through eleven studies of European schools, this volume explores the constructing and handling of difference and sameness in the central institutions of schools. Based on ethnographic studies of schools in Greece, England, Norway, Italy, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, Spain, Austria, Russia, Germany, the Netherlands and Denmark, it illustrates how anthropological studies of schools provide a window to larger society. It thus offers insights into cultural lessons taught to children through policies, institutional structures and everyday interactions, as well as into schools’ entanglement in state projects, cultural processes, societal histories and conflicts, and hence into contemporary Europe.