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Wednesday, November 16, 2011: 14:00-17:45

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This session would be of particular interest to:
Practicing and Applied Anthropologists

Organizers: Susan D Blum (University of Notre Dame)

Chairs: Susan D Blum (University of Notre Dame)

Discussants: John D Herzog (Northeastern University) and Vanessa L Fong (Harvard University)

14:00

Being 'social' – Lessons On Acceptable Social Relations, Civilized Communities and Subtle Exclusion In Danish Schools

Laura Gilliam (University of Aarhus)

14:15

Peace In My Thoughts, Words and Heart: Yoga In a High Poverty Urban Elementary School

Christine Finnan (College of Charleston)

14:30

Alaska Native Children On the Edge: Bridging Two Worlds In Education Reform?

Gail Israel Weinstein (Cook Inlet Tribal Council Inc.)

14:45

AN Ethnopsychology of Adolescence, A LA Compagnonnage

John D Herzog (Northeastern University)

15:00

Representations and Realities: Private Schools In Urban North India

Meghan M Chidsey (Columbia University)

15:15

Developing Destinies: Changes and Continuities In Learning of a Guatemalan Mayan Midwife and Town

Barbara Rogoff (University of California, Santa Cruz)

15:30

Discussant

Vanessa L Fong (Harvard University)

15:45

Break

16:00

Schooling the Gandhian Imagination: Alternative Education, Modernity, and Engaged Citizenship

Rebecca M Klenk (University of Tennessee-Knoxville)

16:15

Flags and Fireworks: Learning Civics When School's Out

Cindy D Clark (Rutgers University)

16:30

Teaching to the Test and Performing the Will to Succeed In Sierra Leone

Catherine E Bolten (University of Notre Dame)

16:45

Learning Versus Schooling: Students’ Educational Goals

Susan D Blum (University of Notre Dame)

17:00

Yucatec Maya Children and Open Attention: Learning with Search Lights Instead of Lasers

Suzanne Gaskins (Northeastern Illinois University)

17:15

Discussant

John D Herzog (Northeastern University)

17:30

Discussion

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