2024-25

The course introduces the student to the concept of 'policy', of 'power' and of 'domination' in anthropology. It also has the aim of investigating these concepts in traditional societies. The fundamental question at issue here lies in the varied representation of the 'other' and the relations and powers that are created from a web of economic, political, cultural and other mutual influences and dependencies.

The course deals with development, object, area of enquiry and research in education.  Students will be introduced to the main concepts involved in the discipline of education, such as upbringing, acquired knowledge, education, training, autodidacticism, learning and training.  The course will also deal with and discuss such matters as autonomy, methodology and the various branches of the discipline of education.  An important matter for discussion will be interdisciplinarity, that is, the relationship between education and associated disciplines.  The course will present and critically dis