Category: educational anthropology
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Homemade instruments, inequality and new worlds
Siloé, a culturally rich but dangerous neighborhood in Cali, Colombia, hosts musician Moíses Zamora Mesu’s project, Los Tambores de Siloé. He teaches local children to play music using homemade instruments, fostering skills and community. This initiative offers an alternative to violence, striving to transform lives within a challenging environment.
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En spinozistisk skole 1: Durkheim og den fælles bevidsthed
I min forberedelse til en artikel om æstetik, pædagogik og demokratisk dannelse, er jeg stødt på en problemstilling, som der nok ikke vil være plads til i artiklen, og for at få afløb for min nysgerrighed vil jeg lige fylde et par ekstra ord på blogosfæren, der hvor du kære læser sidder og keder dig…
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Uddrag fra mit speciale: Om handlingsvalutaer
[uddrag fra mit speciale, s. 90ff] “Handlingsvaluta - et begreb til at begribe mellemrummenes mellemrum Centralt i begrebet handlingsvaluta er det, som jeg med Deleuze kalder affektøkonomien. Det er en meget enkel model, som Deleuze har fra Spinoza. Iflg denne model udgøres en krop127 af en række forbindelser, rapports, og disse forbindelser er det, som…
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Bevægelse som analyseværktøj – seneste erfaringer
Jeg vil nu fortælle om mine erfaringer med bevægelsesanalyse. Vi var en gruppe på i alt 6, og vi mødtes søndag den 19/2 på Forsøgsstationen. Som forberedelse havde jeg valgt et uddrag af min empiri. Det drejede sig om en situation i skolegården, hvor jeg havde fulgt en trio af piger, som legede et-tagfat på…
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A method for corporeal analysis? (You’re not alone)
After three days of experiments with corporeal analysis, I can see some patterns for a possible method : Pre-analysis. What are the most important parameters at play in the material? In my case, I found 3: 1) Initiative. Who decides what to do (in the detail), A. the children themselves or B. the adults? 2)…
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Fieldwork on fieldwork, day III
See my former two posts in this ‘trilogy’: Using my body as an analytical tool – is there anybody out there? Necessary mistakes on the path to an embodied analysis Read/see/listen more about my methodological reflections here: –>
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Necessary mistakes on the path to an embodied analysis
Day one in ethnographic fieldwork into my ethnographic material. These are my video journals from today, where I document the process of my analytical work: As you can see in Journal I, above, I have used a logic of parameters to do a pre-sorting of my material. What are the most important factors in play…
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Using my body as an analytical tool – is there anybody out there?
“I have conducted an ethnographic fieldwork in a public school, in a reception class, with children aged 7 – 9. I now have a lot of empirical material to analyze. I have fieldnotes, sound recordings, some photos etc. Read more about my studies in Educational Anthropology I have a question to you, and I need…
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Selves, sounds, containers, and Neo’s cat
Reflecting on my observations in the reception class (read more about my field study here), I come to think about the pupils and their struggles to come to some kind of grasps with what is expected from them. It’s evident that in this specific context, there are some adults that are trying to make them understand what…
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An economy of emotions and actions? Part 2 of 4
Part 2. Forging a concept: “Proposition” (Continued from: An economy of emotions and actions? Part 1 of 4) What I am basically trying to do here, is to find a way of talking about the processes through which ‘something new’ comes into being in a collective. I am thinking about all the small interactions, where someone…
Building Sound Collectives 