Anthropology of education engages these perspectives through the study of schooling in our own culture, from the perspective of minority groups in our culture, and from multiple transcultural perspectives. The anthropology of education engages issues such as the socialization process of schooling; the production, transmission, and acquisition of “culture” within the educational process; the role of ethnocentrism and cultural relativism in schools; the school’s role in the creation of identity; and how minority groups interact with the majority culture of schooling. These issues are at the heart of immense debate and analysis within educational policy and practice, ranging from questions of multicultural education to what it means to be educated; from curriculum design to multiple intelligence; from why minority students disproportionately fail in school to what it means for a test to be “culturally biased.”
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