Center for Urban Ethnography

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The main theme of this year : "Ethnography for Social Justice in Education" (Feb 27 - 28, 2009)

Reinventing Anthropology "is for people for whom 'the way things are' is not reason enough for the way things are ... who ask of anthropology what they ask of themselves ... responsiveness, critical awareness, ethical concern, human relevance, a clear connection between what is to be done and the interests of mankind" (Hymes 1969: 7).

On this 30th anniversary of the Ethnography in Education Research Forum, we reflect on Dell Hymes' vision of anthropology in the service of social justice. In his prolific and powerful writings, and in his leadership of Penn's Graduate School of Education, Hymes proposed not only a vision but a set of ways of doing ethnography in education --from ethnographic monitoring and the ethnography of communication to the ethnopoetics of oral narratives and the ethnography of language policy-- that have inspired and informed researchers for a generation and more. In this year's Forum, we hope to explore the myriad uses educational ethnographers are making of these and other ways of working to change schooling and education for the better, in the ongoing project of reinventing anthropology.

Convenor: Dr. Nancy H. Hornberger
Coordinators: Julia Deák and Karl Swinehart
Plenary speakers
Shirley Brice Heath, Brown University
Kris Gutiérrez, University of California, Los Angeles
Brian Street, King’s College
Margaret Himley, Syracuse University
Patricia Carini, Prospect School, Vermont

Center for Urban Ethnography
Graduate School of Education
University of Pennsylvania
3700 Walnut StreetPhiladelphia, PA 19104-6216
Email: cue@gse.upenn.edu
Phone: 215-898-3273
http://www.gse.upenn.edu/cue/