Difference and Sameness in Schools

Laura Gilliam is an anthropologist and Associate Professor in Educational Anthropology, at School of Education, Aarhus University, Denmark. With Eva Gulløv, she is the author of Children of the Welfare State: Civilizing Practices in Schools, Childcare and Families, (Pluto Books, 2017).

Introduction: The Anthropological Study of Schools. Presenting European Anthropology of Education

Laura Gilliam and Christa Markom



Part I: Constructing and Handling Difference and Sameness in the Everyday of School



Chapter 1. Rendering Sameness and Difference Pedagogical. Care for Kindergarten Pupils in a Stigmatized Swiss Suburb

Ursina Jaeger



Chapter 2. Teaching Equality, Teaching Hierarchy: Moral Lessons in the Schools of the Danish Welfare State

Laura Gilliam



Chapter 3. Approaching Difference through Control or Care: Diverging School Ethos in the Norwegian Unified School

Ingrid Smette



Chapter 4. “Silencing” or “Being Silent” from a Child-Centred Perspective: Accomplices to the Invisibility of Differences in an Austrian School

Christa Markom



Part II: Constructing and Handling Difference and Sameness through the Policies, Curriculum and Structures of School



Chapter 5. Schooling and Age Imaginaries: Establishing the Foundations of Sameness and Difference in an English Secondary School

Patrick Alexander



Chapter 6. Education and integration of the Others: Roma Education in the Czech Republic

Markéta Levínská, David Doubek and Dana Bittnerová



Chapter 7. Regionalism and Minority Identities in Putin’s Russia: Ethnographic Perspectives on School Education and Belonging

Dilyara Müller-Suleymanova



Chapter 8. Activating Muslims: Citizenship in Dutch Islamic schools#

Jamal Ahajjaj, Martijn de Koning and Thijl Sunier



Chapter 9. Teaching History and Performing the Nation: The Production of National Citizens in Greek Primary Education

Ioannis Manos



Part III: Special Contributions



Chapter 10. Anthropology and/in Intercultural Education in Italy: The Winding Roads to Diversity and Identity

Francesca Gobbo



Chapter 11. Civil Enculturation in The Netherlands, Britain, Germany, and France: a Look Back and Ahead

Sabine Mannitz and Thijl Sunier



Afterword: Towards an Anthropology of Education in Europe: Insights, Challenges and Potential

Spyrou Spyros