Fieldnotes from Guinea, 1994 (sample)

Sample of handwritten fieldnotes from a nation-wide study of girls’ experiences in elementary and middle-school classrooms. The research resulted in a report to the World Bank and the following publication: Anderson-Levitt, Kathryn M., Marianne Bloch, and Aminata Maiga Soumaré 1998 Inside Classrooms in Guinea: Girls Within the System of Interaction. In Marianne Bloch, Josephine Beoku-Betts, & Robert Tabachnick, Eds., Women and Education in Sub-Saharan Africa: Power, Opportunities and Constraints. Boulder, CO: Lynne Reinner Publishers.The World Bankhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/49248/3/Guinea-field_notes_1.pd

Videotape from France, 1978, first-grade classroom

Sample of a videotape of reading instruction or other activities made in an elementary school in France during an ethnographic study of teachers’ cultural knowledge for reading instruction.The National Science Foundation, The National Institute of Mental Healthhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/49250/2/VsGP.mp

Fieldnotes from France, 1978-79, on slips of paper, index card style, Ecole M-B, Mme T's cours de perfectionnement, 5/18/78.

Sample of fieldnotes made during a observation of a special education class during a study of teachers' cultural knowledge for reading instruction. Notes record classroom activities with asides interpreting teacher and student behaviors.The National Science Foundation, The National Institute of Mental Healthhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/49249/3/France-field_notes_1.pd

Anderson-Levitt, Kathryn M., Globalization and Curriculum, pp. 349-368 in F. Michael Connelly, Ming Fang He, and JoAnn Phillion, eds., The SAGE Handbook of Curriculum and Instruction. Los Angeles: Sage Publications, 2008.

Highlights the importance of an international or global perspective on curriculum; surveys a variety of cross-national studies of the intended, the enacted, and the achieved curriculum

Video from Guinea, 1994, for the World Bank project. Ecole Primaire D---, 2/11/94, copy 2.

Sample of a videotape made in an elementary school in Guinea during a nation-wide study of girls’ experiences in elementary and middle-school classrooms. One of a collection of a dozen tapes, all of which have been transcribed.The World Bankhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/49251/2/Ecole Primaire D.mp

L'Anthropologie de l'éducation aux Etats-Unis : méthodes, théories et applications d'une discipline en évolution

Henriot-Van Zanten Agnès, Anderson-Levitt Kathryn. L'Anthropologie de l'éducation aux Etats-Unis : méthodes, théories et applications d'une discipline en évolution. In: Revue française de pédagogie, volume 101, 1992. pp. 79-104

Etudes ethnographiques de la scolarisation des enfants immigrés

Henriot-Van Zanten Agnès, Anderson-Levitt Kathryn M. Etudes ethnographiques de la scolarisation des enfants immigrés. In: Revue française de pédagogie, volume 101, 1992. pp. 5-6