Ethnography and Education in the South: The Emergence of Alternative Schools of Thinking

Published by Routledge in 2025, this book is edited by Diana Milstein, Regina Coeli Machado e Silva, and Sofia Marques da Silva

"This book presents results of educational ethnographies carried out in non-hegemonic academies situated in the South. The chapters bring out methodological and theoretical contributions and offer the possibility to discuss tensions between universalisable and local ways of knowing and the emergence of alternative schools of ethnographic thinking."

Table of contents:

Introduction - Ethnography and education in the South: the emergence of alternative schools of thinking
Diana Milstein, Regina Coeli Machado e Silva and Sofía Marques Da Silva 

1. Is there room for interculturality? Indigenous youth in Peruvian private universities and the scholarship programme Beca 18
Patricia Ames 

2. Perspectives and discourses on teaching evaluations in a South African university.
Rejoice Nsibande and Maropeng Modiba 

3. Playing the ‘pibe chorro’ game: masculine skills and legitimate peripheral participation in street culture
Jesús Jaramillo 

4. Educational ethnographies on memory and territory with children in rural contexts in Colombia.
Alba Lucy Guerrero, Manuela Correa and Laura Stefanny León 

5. ‘And here is a caterpillar kindergarten’: Latin American children transforming school practices at home during the pandemic
Diana Milstein, Regina Coeli Machado e Silva and Maria Dantas-Whitney 

6. Nomadic knowledge in emerging pedagogical contexts: ethnographic experience in two secondary schools in Málaga, Spain
Pablo Cortés-González and José Ignacio Rivas-Flores 

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