John Adair
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 113785 |
|---|---|
| NOME | John Adair |
| PRENOMES | John |
| SOBRENOME | Adair |
| ASSINATURA | ADAIR J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | The University of Texas at Austin |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5843-8185 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 39 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 82 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 39 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1940 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Child-focused civics
Black Girl Joy (Un)Interrupted
Black girls’ schooling experiences and capabilities are understudied. Their brilliance eludes neoliberal early childhood contexts characterized by control, standardization, hyper-individualism, and antiblackness. This article builds on Black Girlhood frameworks and Engaged Pedagogy to center 11 Black girls in three Texas PreK classrooms. In a secondary analysis of video-data from two large-scale video-cued ethnographies, we documented their capab…
Assessing Contexts, Not Children
United States policymakers and education leaders continue to assess young children as if their learning contexts are neutral and harmless. This article draws upon examples from the multi-sited Civic Action and Young Children study to show why contexts that actively refuse deficit, racist thinking and support agency have the best chance of showing children’s diverse ranges of skills and knowledge and so should be the focus of assessment
Some of us Don’t Like the Chaos’
Equitable access to agency-supportive early schooling contexts for young children of color
Los policías ! Latinx children’s agency in highly regulated early childhood contexts
This article shows how two Latina bilingual teachers provided opportunities for their Latinx students from immigrant families to enact their agency in a highly regulated Head Start bilingual preschool classroom in ways that aligned with culturally sustaining pedagogy. Using video-cued ethnography and data from the Blinded Study, the authors center three- and four-year-old children who engaged in a collaborative, dynamic make-believe game involvin…
Taking Early Childhood Education and Young Children’s Learning Experiences Seriously
For decades, important early childhood scholars who critiqued normative ideas about early childhood frameworks, guidelines, and assessments have been silenced in highly ranked child development and early childhood journals. The qualitative methods needed to prioritize the perspectives of marginalized communities (i.e., ethnography, interview and focus groups, video-cued, narrative inquiry, testimonio, pláticas, counterstories, photovoice, and com…
Critical Geography in Preschool
Background U.S. preschool children from Latinx immigrant and Black communities often experience schooling rooted in compliance and overdiscipline. In these contexts, schools do not recognize the rich lived experiences of Children of Color as suitable for civic learning. This article explores how, when schools value young Children of Color as capable and their work as important, classrooms become sites of children's daily embodied civic action. Pu…
Segregation by Experience
Un GI pueblo
Le texte traduit ici pour la première fois en français est paru dans un recueil de 1960 édité par Joseph Casagrande, In the Company of Man. Vingt anthropologues, parmi lesquels Raymond Firth, Robert Lowie ou encore Margaret Mead, étaient invités à faire le portrait de leur informateur, figure à la fois banale et mystérieuse du travail ethnographique. Ici, l’anthropologue américain John Adair raconte son arrivée dans un village pueblo et sa rencon…
Video-Cued Ethnography in Educational Settings
This special issue focuses on the methodology of video-cued ethnography (VCE) as a process of using film to elicit explanations and responses to educational contexts that can reveal the cultural and socio-political variation in how people understand educational ideas, practices, policies, and relationships. We aim to advance an understanding of the method itself as well as demonstrate its broad potential for anthropological work in the U.S. and i…
Video-Cued Ethnographic Data Collection as a Tool Toward Participant Voice
In this article, we describe the purpose and the process of video-cued ethnography. Using examples primarily from the Children Crossing Borders study, we outline six basic elements of video-cued ethnography including site selection, participant-observation, filming, editing, focus group interviews, and comparative analysis. We detail some of the challenges and tensions that accompany video-cued ethnographic work and demonstrate how video-cued eth…
Expanding Video-Cued Multivocal Ethnography for Activist Research in the Civic Action and Young Children Study
This article describes the use of video-cued multivocal ethnography (VCE) in the Civic Action and Young Children Study conducted with preschool children in South Texas. We detail how and why we continue to use the VCE method as a process of collective reflection and analysis with participating communities. We also explore how VCE helps us enact our commitment to equity, change, and justice as activist researchers and educators. [Video-cued ethnog…
Young children’s citizenship membership and participation
Recognition of young children as citizens is relatively new in sociology, with translation emerging into education. Discourses of children and childhood shape ideas of young children as citizens and national discourses of citizenship frame what civic participation can be. The authors analysed national early childhood education curricula frameworks of Australia, New Zealand and the United States to understand how discourses authorise constructions…
How the Word Gap Argument Negatively Impacts Young Children of Latinx Immigrants' Conceptualizations of Learning
Early childhood education in grades preK–3 continues to contribute to future school success. Discrimination, however, can still be an obstacle for many children of Latinx immigrants because they often receive less sophisticated and dynamic learning experiences than their white, native-born peers. In this article, Jennifer Keys Adair, Kiyomi Sánchez-Suzuki Colegrove, and Molly E. McManus detail how this type of educational discrimination is perpet…
Democratic Utopias
On May 1, 1989, María, a high school teacher from Buenos Aires, wrote a letter to President Raúl Alfonsín as he began his final months in office. The country was in the midst of a hyperinflation crisis and elections were set for just two weeks away. Earlier in the day, María had heard the president's last address to the congress, and she felt compelled to write him. “My friend,” she began, as she recounted how she and her husband, an adjunct univ…
Examining whiteness as an obstacle to positively approaching immigrant families in US early childhood educational settings
This article examines whiteness at the intersection of immigration and early childhood education as it was made visible during interviews with 50 preschool teachers in five US cities as part of the Children Crossing Borders (CCB) study. Findings show whiteness acting not only as a construct of privilege but also as an idea that manifests itself in ways that affect schooling, even in early educational settings like preschool. Whiteness is made vis…
Cross-Cultural Dimensions of Meaning in the Evaluation of Events in World History
The universality versus culture specificity of quantitative evaluations (negative-positive) of 40 events in world history was addressed using World History Survey data collected from 5,800 university students in 30 countries/societies. Multidimensional scaling using generalized procrustean analysis indicated poor fit of data from the 30 countries to an overall mean configuration, indicating lack of universal agreement as to the associational mean…
Advocating for Ethnographic Work in Early Childhood Federal Policy
Initiated as part of the Council on Anthropology and Education's Policy Engagement Working Group, the policy brief "Ethnographic Knowledge For Early Childhood" focused on making the case for ethnography as evidence within early childhood federal policy. This article describes the creation and distribution of the policy brief as well as the challenges and possibilities we have as educational anthropologists to make our work accessible to local and…
Everywhere in Life There Are Numbers
This essay looks at reflective questions most teachers struggle with. These self-analytic questions are framed by two books in particular, Eric Gutstein's Reading and Writing the World with Mathematics and Gutstein and Peterson's Rethinking Mathematics, that advocate for the inclusion of social justice pedagogy in mathematics curriculum. This essay uses these two books to talk about the relationship between social justice educators (in all discip…
Life Satisfaction of Indian Immigrants in Canada
It is a common conception that immigrants face numerous problems and considerable stress in the process of adjustment to a new culture. The life satisfaction of immigrants from India was assessed using the Satisfaction With Life Scale (Diener et al., 1985). As predicted by judgment theory (Micholas, 1986), it was found that Indian immigrants judge their own well-being in comparison to relevant others, such as their peers back home, the majority w…
The People's Health
American Society of Primatologists Membership List
Through Navajo Eyes
Originally published in 1972, this pioneering book has become a classic in visual anthropology. Worth and Adair set out to answer the question, What would happen if someone from a culture that makes and uses motion pictures taught people who have never made or used motion pictures to do so for the first time? They taught filmmaking and editing to a group of six Navajos in Pinetree, Arizona. This book explains what happened, what they and the Nava…
The Navaho
Navajo Filmmakers
This paper is a report of research in visual (film) communication investigating questions in anthropology and communication. Six Navajos, aged 17–25, and one monolingual, aged 55, living on the reservation were taught only the technology of a 16mm movie camera and splicer and were asked to make films about “anything you want to.” We review the theoretical questions underlying the research, describe our method of teaching, and analyze the films th…
Navaho and Zuni Veterans
The Navajo as Filmmaker
The People's Health
The Navajo and Pueblo Silversmiths
Cross-Cultural Dimensions of Meaning in the Evaluation of Events in World History
The universality versus culture specificity of quantitative evaluations (negative-positive) of 40 events in world history was addressed using World History Survey data collected from 5,800 university students in 30 countries/societies. Multidimensional scaling using generalized procrustean analysis indicated poor fit of data from the 30 countries to an overall mean configuration, indicating lack of universal agreement as to the associational mean…
Patterns of Health and Disease Among the Navahos
Community patterns of our Indian citizens range from ordinary American communities to ways of life more comparable with those seen in parts of Asia or South America. In each type the disease picture can be expected to be different and the ways of dealing with it must necessarily be somewhat dif ferent. The Navaho tribe is the largest Indian tribe, a group whose ways of life perhaps differ the most from the rest of the United States. The broad pri…
Young children’s citizenship membership and participation
Recognition of young children as citizens is relatively new in sociology, with translation emerging into education. Discourses of children and childhood shape ideas of young children as citizens and national discourses of citizenship frame what civic participation can be. The authors analysed national early childhood education curricula frameworks of Australia, New Zealand and the United States to understand how discourses authorise constructions…
Democratic Utopias
On May 1, 1989, María, a high school teacher from Buenos Aires, wrote a letter to President Raúl Alfonsín as he began his final months in office. The country was in the midst of a hyperinflation crisis and elections were set for just two weeks away. Earlier in the day, María had heard the president's last address to the congress, and she felt compelled to write him. “My friend,” she began, as she recounted how she and her husband, an adjunct univ…
Examining whiteness as an obstacle to positively approaching immigrant families in US early childhood educational settings
This article examines whiteness at the intersection of immigration and early childhood education as it was made visible during interviews with 50 preschool teachers in five US cities as part of the Children Crossing Borders (CCB) study. Findings show whiteness acting not only as a construct of privilege but also as an idea that manifests itself in ways that affect schooling, even in early educational settings like preschool. Whiteness is made vis…
The Indian Health Worker in the Cornell-Navaho Project
In the literature acculturation of American Indians there has been a great deal written about the individual from a tribal society who, when educated away from home or upon return from long residence on the outside, comes back to his family and community a misfit. He has taken the values, beliefs, and behavior of that majority society little understood by the members of his own group. That other society has been a reference group to which his beh…
Black Girl Joy (Un)Interrupted
Black girls’ schooling experiences and capabilities are understudied. Their brilliance eludes neoliberal early childhood contexts characterized by control, standardization, hyper-individualism, and antiblackness. This article builds on Black Girlhood frameworks and Engaged Pedagogy to center 11 Black girls in three Texas PreK classrooms. In a secondary analysis of video-data from two large-scale video-cued ethnographies, we documented their capab…
Some Problems of the Physicians on the Navajo Reservation
Since World War II there has been a great increase in the number of United States medical personnel working in the socalled "underdeveloped" areas of the world. This expansion in the delivery of scientific medicine is caused by a number of factors. Prominent among these are the great increase in military bases in foreign countries, where the doctors and nurses frequently treat native civilian personnel as well as U.S. troops, and to United States…
A Field Method for Teaching Applied Anthropology
Attempts to teach applied anthropology to students of administration, education or technology encounter at least two major difficulties: the problem of making the subject matter alive and "real" in a classroom; and pressure to do this in a short space of time. With the growth of Technical Cooperation Administration ("Point Four"), UNESCO and similar programs, the need to provide such training for administrators, educators, and technological speci…
Video-Cued Ethnographic Data Collection as a Tool Toward Participant Voice
In this article, we describe the purpose and the process of video-cued ethnography. Using examples primarily from the Children Crossing Borders study, we outline six basic elements of video-cued ethnography including site selection, participant-observation, filming, editing, focus group interviews, and comparative analysis. We detail some of the challenges and tensions that accompany video-cued ethnographic work and demonstrate how video-cued eth…
Advocating for Ethnographic Work in Early Childhood Federal Policy
Initiated as part of the Council on Anthropology and Education's Policy Engagement Working Group, the policy brief "Ethnographic Knowledge For Early Childhood" focused on making the case for ethnography as evidence within early childhood federal policy. This article describes the creation and distribution of the policy brief as well as the challenges and possibilities we have as educational anthropologists to make our work accessible to local and…
The First Look at Strangers
North America
The Navajo and Pueblo Silversmiths
Navaho and Zuni Veterans
A Field Method for Teaching Applied Anthropology
Attempts to teach applied anthropology to students of administration, education or technology encounter at least two major difficulties: the problem of making the subject matter alive and "real" in a classroom; and pressure to do this in a short space of time. With the growth of Technical Cooperation Administration ("Point Four"), UNESCO and similar programs, the need to provide such training for administrators, educators, and technological speci…
Patterns of Health and Disease Among the Navahos
Community patterns of our Indian citizens range from ordinary American communities to ways of life more comparable with those seen in parts of Asia or South America. In each type the disease picture can be expected to be different and the ways of dealing with it must necessarily be somewhat dif ferent. The Navaho tribe is the largest Indian tribe, a group whose ways of life perhaps differ the most from the rest of the United States. The broad pri…
Some Problems of the Physicians on the Navajo Reservation
Since World War II there has been a great increase in the number of United States medical personnel working in the socalled "underdeveloped" areas of the world. This expansion in the delivery of scientific medicine is caused by a number of factors. Prominent among these are the great increase in military bases in foreign countries, where the doctors and nurses frequently treat native civilian personnel as well as U.S. troops, and to United States…
The First Look at Strangers
The Indian Health Worker in the Cornell-Navaho Project
In the literature acculturation of American Indians there has been a great deal written about the individual from a tribal society who, when educated away from home or upon return from long residence on the outside, comes back to his family and community a misfit. He has taken the values, beliefs, and behavior of that majority society little understood by the members of his own group. That other society has been a reference group to which his beh…
People of the Middle Place
General and Ethnology
In Reply to Downs
The Navajo as Filmmaker
Reply to Goldfrank
The Navaho
Navajo Filmmakers
This paper is a report of research in visual (film) communication investigating questions in anthropology and communication. Six Navajos, aged 17–25, and one monolingual, aged 55, living on the reservation were taught only the technology of a 16mm movie camera and splicer and were asked to make films about “anything you want to.” We review the theoretical questions underlying the research, describe our method of teaching, and analyze the films th…
Through Navajo Eyes
Originally published in 1972, this pioneering book has become a classic in visual anthropology. Worth and Adair set out to answer the question, What would happen if someone from a culture that makes and uses motion pictures taught people who have never made or used motion pictures to do so for the first time? They taught filmmaking and editing to a group of six Navajos in Pinetree, Arizona. This book explains what happened, what they and the Nava…
American Society of Primatologists Membership List
The People's Health
Life Satisfaction of Indian Immigrants in Canada
It is a common conception that immigrants face numerous problems and considerable stress in the process of adjustment to a new culture. The life satisfaction of immigrants from India was assessed using the Satisfaction With Life Scale (Diener et al., 1985). As predicted by judgment theory (Micholas, 1986), it was found that Indian immigrants judge their own well-being in comparison to relevant others, such as their peers back home, the majority w…
Everywhere in Life There Are Numbers
This essay looks at reflective questions most teachers struggle with. These self-analytic questions are framed by two books in particular, Eric Gutstein's Reading and Writing the World with Mathematics and Gutstein and Peterson's Rethinking Mathematics, that advocate for the inclusion of social justice pedagogy in mathematics curriculum. This essay uses these two books to talk about the relationship between social justice educators (in all discip…
Advocating for Ethnographic Work in Early Childhood Federal Policy
Initiated as part of the Council on Anthropology and Education's Policy Engagement Working Group, the policy brief "Ethnographic Knowledge For Early Childhood" focused on making the case for ethnography as evidence within early childhood federal policy. This article describes the creation and distribution of the policy brief as well as the challenges and possibilities we have as educational anthropologists to make our work accessible to local and…
Cross-Cultural Dimensions of Meaning in the Evaluation of Events in World History
The universality versus culture specificity of quantitative evaluations (negative-positive) of 40 events in world history was addressed using World History Survey data collected from 5,800 university students in 30 countries/societies. Multidimensional scaling using generalized procrustean analysis indicated poor fit of data from the 30 countries to an overall mean configuration, indicating lack of universal agreement as to the associational mean…
Examining whiteness as an obstacle to positively approaching immigrant families in US early childhood educational settings
This article examines whiteness at the intersection of immigration and early childhood education as it was made visible during interviews with 50 preschool teachers in five US cities as part of the Children Crossing Borders (CCB) study. Findings show whiteness acting not only as a construct of privilege but also as an idea that manifests itself in ways that affect schooling, even in early educational settings like preschool. Whiteness is made vis…
Democratic Utopias
On May 1, 1989, María, a high school teacher from Buenos Aires, wrote a letter to President Raúl Alfonsín as he began his final months in office. The country was in the midst of a hyperinflation crisis and elections were set for just two weeks away. Earlier in the day, María had heard the president's last address to the congress, and she felt compelled to write him. “My friend,” she began, as she recounted how she and her husband, an adjunct univ…
How the Word Gap Argument Negatively Impacts Young Children of Latinx Immigrants' Conceptualizations of Learning
Early childhood education in grades preK–3 continues to contribute to future school success. Discrimination, however, can still be an obstacle for many children of Latinx immigrants because they often receive less sophisticated and dynamic learning experiences than their white, native-born peers. In this article, Jennifer Keys Adair, Kiyomi Sánchez-Suzuki Colegrove, and Molly E. McManus detail how this type of educational discrimination is perpet…
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