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Margaret Mead

Contributions to Contemporary Education

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Authors:
  1. Kate Maguire

    1. Institute for Work Based Learning, Middlesex University, London, United Kingdom

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  • Explains and contextualises Margaret Mead's contribution to educational discourses
  • Demonstrates how knowledge of human kind garnered from social anthropology illuminates contemporary problems in the education of young adults
  • Discusses the controversy around Mead's work on young people and her transdisciplinary approach to research
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Education (BRIEFSEDUCAT)

Part of the book sub series: SpringerBriefs on Key Thinkers in Education (BRIEFSKEY)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction

    • Kate Maguire
    Pages 1-10

  3. Preparing Children for the Future

    • Kate Maguire
    Pages 11-16

  4. Reconfiguring Relationships with the Young Supermodernity

    • Kate Maguire
    Pages 17-31

  5. The Epistemology of Ignorance

    • Kate Maguire
    Pages 33-48

  6. Education is Democracy

    • Kate Maguire
    Pages 49-57

  7. Research, Transdisciplinarity, Translation

    • Kate Maguire
    Pages 59-71

  8. Ethnography as a Research Approach: ‘Understanding’ and Inclusion

    • Kate Maguire
    Pages 73-78

  9. Anthropology Educates

    • Kate Maguire
    Pages 79-87

  10. Attributes of the Modern Educator

    • Kate Maguire
    Pages 89-96
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About this book

This book makes a case for Margaret Mead's contributions to education discourses, which in retrospect appear visionary and profoundly democratic, non judgemental and transdisciplinary, and for their relevance for education today at primary, secondary and tertiary levels. Mead combined her substantial skills and knowledge as a linguist, anthropologist and psychologist to draw attention to the primary role of culture and society in identity formation, privileging against sterner perspectives, the idea that the conditions that support the emergence of balanced personalities, able to contribute to society and to progress themselves as individuals, starts with observation of self before that of others. This observation of and reflection on self was for her a necessary demonstration of transparency while close observation of others was ‘an act of love’, much as the artist contemplates his/her subject, that dissolved negative differences of culture, belief and status.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Institute for Work Based Learning, Middlesex University, London, United Kingdom

    Kate Maguire

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Margaret Mead

  • Book Subtitle: Contributions to Contemporary Education

  • Authors: Kate Maguire

  • Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Education

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9309-4

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: the Author(s) 2015

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-017-9308-7Published: 23 March 2015

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-9309-4Published: 27 February 2015

  • Series ISSN: 2211-1921

  • Series E-ISSN: 2211-193X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 96

  • Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Sociology of Education, Anthropology

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