Difference and Sameness in Schools

<p> Presenting European Anthropology of Education through eleven studies of European schools this volume explores the constructing and handling of difference and sameness in the central institutions of schools. Based on ethnographic studies of schools in Greece England Norway Switzerland the Czech Republic Spain Austria Russia Germany the Netherlands and Denmark it illustrates how anthropological studies of schools provide a window to larger society. It thus offers insights into cultural lessons taught to children through policies institutional structures and everyday interactions as well as into schools' entanglement in state projects cultural processes societal histories and conflicts and hence into contemporary Europe.</p>