{"title":"My Grandmother Was Not in the Textbook","authors":"Pramana","doi":"10.1111/aeq.70105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/aeq.70105","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This poem reflects on the quiet forms of knowledge that often remain absent from formal schooling. Centered on the figure of a grandmother, it uses domestic and sensory images—measuring rice, sorting beans, reading the sky, and distributing food—to contrast standardized textbook knowledge with intergenerational learning. The poem asks whose knowledge becomes visible within official curricula and how children learn dignity, care, survival, and cultural interpretation through everyday practices at home. Rather than treating the grandmother as a nostalgic figure, the poem presents her as an informal educator whose embodied knowledge unsettles narrow definitions of literacy and expertise. In doing so, it contributes to anthropological conversations about education, cultural transmission, epistemic exclusion, and the relationship between home, school, and community-based learning.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47386,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology & Education Quarterly","volume":"57 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2026-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148848811","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Returning to Classroom Moments: Ethnographic Sensibility in Practicum Teaching","authors":"Pengyu Lin","doi":"10.1111/aeq.70104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/aeq.70104","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This reflection conceptualizes <i>return</i> as a practice through which practicum teaching can cultivate ethnographic sensibility. Drawing on three interconnected educational experiences in China, I show how <i>return</i> shifts attention from teacher performance to the material, relational, and institutional organization of classroom life, redistributes interpretive authority, and keeps uncertainty analytically productive. Teachers oftentimes act before understanding is complete; yet, return allows later judgment to remain answerable to what the initial response left unseen.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47386,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology & Education Quarterly","volume":"57 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2026-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148783873","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Ethnographic Study of a Single-Management Aided School in Kerala, (India): Contesting Policy, History, and Narratives","authors":"Ardra K. Sreenivasan","doi":"10.1111/aeq.70100","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/aeq.70100","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This paper analyses the local manifestation of Kerala's aided school policy evolution, exploring historical and ethnographic narratives within a village-school ecosystem to reveal how this postcolonial reform shaped public education sector alongside liberalization's effects. It argues that family-run single-management aided schools form a distinct category, fostering a habitus rooted in property ownership and local power dynamics, which led to skewed teacher demographics, disengagement from children's needs, and infrastructural deficits—yet challenged by political purchasing power of village population to be critical about their experiences and exercise choices.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47386,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology & Education Quarterly","volume":"57 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2026-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148754187","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Crisis of Expertise in Schooling: An Ethnography of Parents as Educators in Israeli Alternative Schools","authors":"Amit Rottman, Deborah Golden","doi":"10.1111/aeq.70099","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/aeq.70099","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Expertise in schooling is shaped by the global crisis of expertise, the contested nature of teaching as a profession, and contemporary middle-class parenting norms. The paper examines these influences by presenting cases of parents who became educators in alternative schools in Israel. We introduce the concept of <i>experience-based professional expertise</i> and examine the top-down and bottom-up dynamics through which this lay expertise is established and legitimized.</p>","PeriodicalId":47386,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology & Education Quarterly","volume":"57 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2026-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/aeq.70099","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148752766","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Alianzas Familiares in Multilingual Education. By E. J. Johnson and L. A. Murillo, Bristol, UK: Multilingual Matters, 2026. 257 pp. $39.95 (paperback). ISBN: 978-1-83-668237-0","authors":"Daniel Medrano","doi":"10.1111/aeq.70098","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/aeq.70098","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47386,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology & Education Quarterly","volume":"57 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2026-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148647904","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Description Has Thick Roots","authors":"John F. Sherry Jr.","doi":"10.1111/aeq.70097","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/aeq.70097","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This playful etymological poem explores the complexity of anthropology's principal way of apprehending the world. Description is a multifaceted practice that contours, translates and contextualizes our observations in a way that brings them to life. The poem is, in effect, an origin story of this practice. We theorize with stories and theory-laden facts. Poetry is a way of dramatizing our (re)presentations. Good description is incisive, almost surgical, cutting to the heart of the matter in a way that vividly realizes its subject. It may be painful to render or to accept but can be deeply satisfying as well. Description further dimensionalizes observer and observed, casting new light on the hopeful knower and the hopefully known. Description animates everything and everyone it attempts to depict. Still, it is an asymptotic enterprise, elusive and incomplete. The persona laments this evasive quality but recognizes that it drives anthropologists' perseverance. The poem celebrates our quest for precision and artful expression.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47386,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology & Education Quarterly","volume":"57 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2026-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148615322","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Constructing Desirable Asian Americanness in the Educational Market: School Branding and Intra-Asian Boundary Making","authors":"Insil Jeon","doi":"10.1111/aeq.70096","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/aeq.70096","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This ethnographic study examines how market pressures shape institutional life within an Asian American charter school. The analysis shows two interrelated processes: school branding in pursuit of market desirability and intra-Asian boundary making that this pursuit generates. The result is the reproduction of model minority representations that privilege Asian immigrant groups over Karen refugee students in their access to curricular opportunities and the school's future. The findings demonstrate how school marketization intensifies pre-existing stratification at the intersection of race, class, ethnicity, and immigrant status.</p>","PeriodicalId":47386,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology & Education Quarterly","volume":"57 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2026-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/aeq.70096","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148467391","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Linda M. Pheng, Choua P. Xiong, Mai Neng Vang, Stacey J. Lee
{"title":"Learning From and Alongside Each Other: A Humanizing Approach to Team-Based Ethnography","authors":"Linda M. Pheng, Choua P. Xiong, Mai Neng Vang, Stacey J. Lee","doi":"10.1111/aeq.70095","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/aeq.70095","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Drawing from 7 years of team-based ethnographic research with Hmong communities in Wisconsin, we—a multiethnic group of Asian American women—extend Paris and Winn's (2013) concept of humanizing research. We argue that relational care among research team members is central to sustaining humanizing practices. Our collaboration demonstrates that care, dignity, and dialogic consciousness emerge not only in researcher–participant relationships but also within the collective, affective labor of doing research together.</p>","PeriodicalId":47386,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology & Education Quarterly","volume":"57 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2026-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/aeq.70095","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148467390","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}