Review of Teaching Embodied: Cultural Practice in Japanese Preschools by Akiko Hayashi and Joseph J. Tobin

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  • Kathryn Anderson-Levitt UCLA

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14507/er.v22.1953

Author Biography

Kathryn Anderson-Levitt, UCLA

Kathryn Anderson-Levitt is professor emerita of anthropology at the University of Michigan–Dearborn and currently teaches in UCLA’s Department of Education. She has conducted ethnographic research on teachers, reading instruction, and the flow of educational reform, has served as an editor of Anthropology and Education Quarterly and is presently is one of the co-editors of Comparative Education Review.

References

Anderson-Levitt, K. M. (2002). Teaching Cultures: Knowledge for Teaching First Grade in France and the United States. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.

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D'Andrade, R. G. (1981). The Cultural Part of Cognition. Cognitive Science, 5, 179-195.

Lave, J., & Wegner, É. (1991). Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Spindler, G. D., & Spindler, L. (2000). Crosscultural, Comparative, Reflective Interviewing in Schoenhausen and Roseville. In G. D. Spindler (Ed.), Fifty Years of Anthropology and Education (pp. 281-303). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Tobin, J., Hsueh, Y., & Karasawa, M. (2009). Preschool in Three Cultures Revisited. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Tobin, J., Wu, D., & Davidson, D. (1989). Preschool in Three Cultures. New Haven: Yale.

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Published

2015-10-20

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Anderson-Levitt, K. (2015). Review of Teaching Embodied: Cultural Practice in Japanese Preschools by Akiko Hayashi and Joseph J. Tobin. Education Review, 22. https://doi.org/10.14507/er.v22.1953

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Vol. 22 (2015)

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Book reviews

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