Overview
- 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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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