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Education Bookcast

Feb 25, 2021

This is the second from last part of the multi-part episode on The Anthropology of Childhood by David Lancy.

This part concerns school. It answers questions such as:

  • What are parents' attitudes to school when exposed to it for the first time?
  • How do children from traditional pre-state societies fare when schools are...


Feb 25, 2021

This recording is the seventh part of a multi-part episode on Professor David Lancy's book The Anthropology of Childhood.

In this episode, we look at adolescence, including questions such as:

  • Does adolescence really exist?
  • How does it vary across societies?
  • What role do adolescents play in social change?
  • Why are...


Feb 25, 2021

This recording is the sixth part of a multi-part episode on Professor David Lancy's book The Anthropology of Childhood.

In this episode, we look at children learning through work, including questions such as:

  • When do children start doing chores? What is their attitude to them?
  • How does learning through chores tend to...


Feb 25, 2021

This recording is the fifth part of a multi-part episode on Professor David Lancy's book The Anthropology of Childhood.

In this episode, we look at the nature and role of play in children's lives, including questions such as:

  • In societies without many material possessions, what do children play with? Are there any...


Feb 25, 2021

This recording is the fourth part of a multi-part episode on Professor David Lancy's book The Anthropology of Childhood.

In this episode, we look at the transition in children's lives into the "age of sense" and the way in which they learn their culture, including questions such as:

  • What ways of learning do we see...