Bradley A Levinson
Biographic Data
| ID | 104895 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bradley A Levinson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bradley A |
| FAMILY NAME | Levinson |
| SIGNATURE | LEVINSON B A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indiana University |
| ORCID | 0009-0008-6897-0755 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 316 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Centering knowledge production: A matter of historical memory
By now, my 2016 Council on Anthropology of Education (CAE) presidential address in Minneapolis has become part of our historical memory. Apparently, it has also become infamous. In the pages of this journal, it was called the “big elephant in the room” by Marta Baltodano in the publication of her 2017 presidential address (Baltodano, 2019, 384). Curiously, it has also been characterized pejoratively as a defense of “objective, descriptive researc…
Transnational migration and civic education in Mexico: An evolving story
In recent decades, formal programmes for Mexican civic education have slowly shifted from an emphasis on national identity and solidarity through assimilation to a multicultural (if not intercultural) emphasis on forms of democratic membership and participation. Yet such advances in educational policy and curricula are limited and sometimes contradictory: the recognition of ethno-cultural diversity remains focused almost exclusively on the ‘Indig…
Commentary
Inhabited Institutions in New Destinations: Local Sense-Making and Institutional Work in Community Response to New Immigration
Comparing two Midwest new destination communities, we identify key ways that local residents actively make sense of, and enact, community response for Latino immigrant newcomers. Our findings show that, over time, local actors privilege preexisting institutional ideals in ways that justify waning support for ongoing newcomer needs. We conclude with discussion of how empirical work in the "inhabited institutions" framework can help specify the sen…
Beyond Critique
Anthropological Approaches to the Study of Education: The United States and Beyond
Beyond Critique: Exploring Critical Social Theories and Education
Companion to the Anthropology of Education
Education Policy as a Practice of Power: Theoretical Tools, Ethnographic Methods, Democratic Options
This article outlines some theoretical and methodological parameters of a critical practice approach to policy. The article discusses the origins of this approach, how it can be uniquely adapted to educational analysis, and why it matters-not only for scholarly interpretation but also for the democratization of policy processes as well. Key to the exposition is the concept of appropriation as a form of creative interpretive practice necessarily e…
Educación para una Ciudadanía Democrática en los Países de América Latina: Una Mirada Crítica
Desde las transiciones políticas y las reformas económicas de la década de los ochenta, en especial desde finales de los noventa, los países de Latinoamérica se han dado a la tarea de modificar los programas de educación cívica a efecto de crear una cultura democrática y política más amplia. De forma perenne, un baluarte de la identidad nacional y lealtad hacia regímenes más autoritarios o populistas, la educación cívica ha vuelto a concebirse co…
Secondary Schools and Communities of Practice for Democratic Civic Education: Challenges of Authority and Authenticity
This article reviews and critiques the concept of "community of practice" (CoP), and analyzes its relevance for democratic citizenship education in secondary social studies. The authors discuss the origins of the CoP concept in the work of Lave and Wenger (1991), trace its usage in recent educational scholarship, and outline its conceptual contributions. The authors call for the adoption of the CoP concept ("mutual engagement, joint enterprise, a…
Citizenship, Identity, Democracy: Engaging the Political in the Anthropology of Education
Hopes and challenges for the new civic education in Mexico: Toward a democratic citizen without adjectives
From Noncompliance to Columbine: Capturing Student Perspectives to Understand Noncompliance and Violence in Public Schools
Hispanic Education in the United States: Raices y Alas
Schooling the Symbolic Animal: Social and Cultural Dimensions of Education
We Are All Equal: Student Culture and Identity at a Mexican Secondary School, 1988 to 1998
Council on Anthropology and Education: Invited Poster Session
Council on Anthropology of Education
Council on Anthropology and Education: Elections Again Already
Council on Anthropology and Education
Council on Anthropology and Education
Council on Anthropology and Education
Council on Anthropology and Education
Linking State and Society in Discourse and Action: Political and Cultural Studies of the Cárdenas Era in Mexico
On 6 July 1997, Cuauhtemoc Cardenas, founder and leader of the Mexican Partido de la Revolucion Democraitica (PRD), scored an impressive victory in being elected mayor of Mexico City. Cardenas's new status as leader of the world's largest city, along with the PRD's substantial gains in parliamentary elections, has raised important questions about the sources of their combined political strength. To what is owed the victory of Cuauhtemoc Cardenas …
Education Policy as a Practice of Power: Theoretical Tools, Ethnographic Methods, Democratic Options
This article outlines some theoretical and methodological parameters of a critical practice approach to policy. The article discusses the origins of this approach, how it can be uniquely adapted to educational analysis, and why it matters-not only for scholarly interpretation but also for the democratization of policy processes as well. Key to the exposition is the concept of appropriation as a form of creative interpretive practice necessarily e…
Cultural Production of the Educated Person: Critical Ethnographies of Schooling and Local Practice
Citizenship, Identity, Democracy: Engaging the Political in the Anthropology of Education
Resituating the Place of Educational Discourse in Anthropology
This critical essay examines the place of educational discourse in contemporary anthropology. I address the growing influence of "cultural studies" frameworks in anthropology-especially in research on popular culture, media, and identity-and the corresponding neglect of specifically educational discourses and practices, in and out of schools. To illustrate, I briefly examine recent research by four noted cultural anthropologists who mention the e…
Ogbu's anthropology and the critical ethnography of education: A reciprocal interrogation
This paper reviews the work of educational anthropologist John Ogbu, comparing it with theoretical and methodological approaches in the critical ethnography of education. Ogbu's work is situated in relation to the “cultural difference” approach in the American anthropology of education. Basic concepts are introduced and important theoretical contributions are noted. Conceptual problems then are identified in Ogbu's approach, and his shortcomings …
Hopes and challenges for the new civic education in Mexico: Toward a democratic citizen without adjectives
Una etapa siempre difícil: Concepts of Adolescence and Secondary Education in Mexico
(How) Can a Man Do Feminist Ethnography of Education
The author attempts to work through the epistemological, methodological, and ethical questions involved when a man attempts to contribute to feminist theory and practice with ethnographic knowledge. He discusses the precursors to such a project by recounting the history of male contributions to feminist anthropological scholarship and reviewing current debates about the problems of interpretation and praxis in feminist ethnography. Drawing on fie…
Inhabited Institutions in New Destinations: Local Sense-Making and Institutional Work in Community Response to New Immigration
Comparing two Midwest new destination communities, we identify key ways that local residents actively make sense of, and enact, community response for Latino immigrant newcomers. Our findings show that, over time, local actors privilege preexisting institutional ideals in ways that justify waning support for ongoing newcomer needs. We conclude with discussion of how empirical work in the "inhabited institutions" framework can help specify the sen…
Student Culture and the Contradictions of Equality at a Mexican Secondary School
This article examines the dynamic relationship between official school structures and forms of student subjectivity through an ethnographic account of student culture at a Mexican secondary school. Tightly interwoven discursive and organizational practices promoting solidarity and equality defined the "official" school structure. Students appropriated these resources to fashion a culture of equality which both accommodated and denied different st…
From Noncompliance to Columbine: Capturing Student Perspectives to Understand Noncompliance and Violence in Public Schools
The Moral Construction of Student Rights: Discourse and Judgment Among Mexican Secondary School Students
This article describes the different forms of students' moral discourse at a Mexican secondary school, paying special attention to their judgments about teachers' arbitrary use of authority, pedagogical formality, and favoritism. The article then analyzes the historical and cultural roots of this discourse. Taking issue with situationist and organizational explanations of pupil resistance, the author argues that to fully understand student's mora…
Transnational migration and civic education in Mexico: An evolving story
In recent decades, formal programmes for Mexican civic education have slowly shifted from an emphasis on national identity and solidarity through assimilation to a multicultural (if not intercultural) emphasis on forms of democratic membership and participation. Yet such advances in educational policy and curricula are limited and sometimes contradictory: the recognition of ethno-cultural diversity remains focused almost exclusively on the ‘Indig…
Commentary
Secondary Schools and Communities of Practice for Democratic Civic Education: Challenges of Authority and Authenticity
This article reviews and critiques the concept of "community of practice" (CoP), and analyzes its relevance for democratic citizenship education in secondary social studies. The authors discuss the origins of the CoP concept in the work of Lave and Wenger (1991), trace its usage in recent educational scholarship, and outline its conceptual contributions. The authors call for the adoption of the CoP concept ("mutual engagement, joint enterprise, a…
Cultura y Desarrollo: Una Etnografia de las Creencias de una Comunidad Mexicana
Cultura. Desarrollo: Una Etnografia de las Creencias de una Comunidad Mexicana. Lourdes Arizpe. Mexico City: Porrua, with El Colegio de Mexico, 1989. 286 pp. n.p. (paper). ISBN 968‐842‐ 183‐9
Ogbu's anthropology and the critical ethnography of education: A reciprocal interrogation
This paper reviews the work of educational anthropologist John Ogbu, comparing it with theoretical and methodological approaches in the critical ethnography of education. Ogbu's work is situated in relation to the “cultural difference” approach in the American anthropology of education. Basic concepts are introduced and important theoretical contributions are noted. Conceptual problems then are identified in Ogbu's approach, and his shortcomings …
The Popular Use of Popular Religion in Latin America
Journal Article The Popular Use of Popular Religion in Latin America, edited by Susanna Rostas and André Droogers. Amsterdam: Centre for Latin American Research and Documentation, 1993, 240 pp. $31.25 Get access Bradley A. Levinson Bradley A. Levinson Augustana College, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 55, Issue 2, Summer 1994, Pages 214–215, https://doi.org/10.2307/37…
Cultural Production of the Educated Person: Critical Ethnographies of Schooling and Local Practice
Mexican Educational Ethnography and the Work of the DIE: Crossing the Border and Finding the Historical Everyday
La escuela cotidiana. Elsie Rockwell, ed. Mexico City: Fondo de Cultura Economica, 1995. 238 pp
Student Culture and the Contradictions of Equality at a Mexican Secondary School
This article examines the dynamic relationship between official school structures and forms of student subjectivity through an ethnographic account of student culture at a Mexican secondary school. Tightly interwoven discursive and organizational practices promoting solidarity and equality defined the "official" school structure. Students appropriated these resources to fashion a culture of equality which both accommodated and denied different st…
(How) Can a Man Do Feminist Ethnography of Education
The author attempts to work through the epistemological, methodological, and ethical questions involved when a man attempts to contribute to feminist theory and practice with ethnographic knowledge. He discusses the precursors to such a project by recounting the history of male contributions to feminist anthropological scholarship and reviewing current debates about the problems of interpretation and praxis in feminist ethnography. Drawing on fie…
The Moral Construction of Student Rights: Discourse and Judgment Among Mexican Secondary School Students
This article describes the different forms of students' moral discourse at a Mexican secondary school, paying special attention to their judgments about teachers' arbitrary use of authority, pedagogical formality, and favoritism. The article then analyzes the historical and cultural roots of this discourse. Taking issue with situationist and organizational explanations of pupil resistance, the author argues that to fully understand student's mora…
Council on Anthropology and Education
Council on Anthropology and Education
Council on Anthropology and Education
Council on Anthropology and Education
Linking State and Society in Discourse and Action: Political and Cultural Studies of the Cárdenas Era in Mexico
On 6 July 1997, Cuauhtemoc Cardenas, founder and leader of the Mexican Partido de la Revolucion Democraitica (PRD), scored an impressive victory in being elected mayor of Mexico City. Cardenas's new status as leader of the world's largest city, along with the PRD's substantial gains in parliamentary elections, has raised important questions about the sources of their combined political strength. To what is owed the victory of Cuauhtemoc Cardenas …
Una etapa siempre difícil: Concepts of Adolescence and Secondary Education in Mexico
Council on Anthropology and Education: Looking to San Francisco
Resituating the Place of Educational Discourse in Anthropology
This critical essay examines the place of educational discourse in contemporary anthropology. I address the growing influence of "cultural studies" frameworks in anthropology-especially in research on popular culture, media, and identity-and the corresponding neglect of specifically educational discourses and practices, in and out of schools. To illustrate, I briefly examine recent research by four noted cultural anthropologists who mention the e…
Council on Anthropology and Education: Invited Poster Session
Council on Anthropology of Education
Council on Anthropology and Education: Elections Again Already
Hispanic Education in the United States: Raices y Alas
Schooling the Symbolic Animal: Social and Cultural Dimensions of Education
We Are All Equal: Student Culture and Identity at a Mexican Secondary School, 1988 to 1998
From Noncompliance to Columbine: Capturing Student Perspectives to Understand Noncompliance and Violence in Public Schools
Hopes and challenges for the new civic education in Mexico: Toward a democratic citizen without adjectives
Citizenship, Identity, Democracy: Engaging the Political in the Anthropology of Education
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