About the Event
History
The Inter-American Symposium on Ethnography and Education (SIEE) is a well-established event in the field, currently in its XVI edition. It has been organized since 1989, with intervals of 3 to 4 years between each edition, having previously taken place in Mexico City (Universidad Pedagógica Nacional), Albuquerque (The University of New Mexico), San José (San Jose State University), Guadalajara (Universidad de Guadalajara), Bloomington (Indiana University Bloomington), Buenos Aires (Universidad de Buenos Aires), Mérida (Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán), Los Angeles (UCLA), El Paso (University of Texas at El Paso), and Ciudad Juárez (Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez).
Conceptualized by internationally renowned scholars such as Elsie Rockwell, Kathryn Anderson-Levitt, and María Rosa Neufeld—whose works are key references in the field—the Inter-American Symposium on Ethnography and Education has become a highly anticipated event for networking, critical reviews, and the construction of international research networks.
Developed themes
The Anthropology of Education, with its focus on ethnographic studies of educational phenomena occurring both inside and outside schools, is a broad field of research. It includes studies on national and regional educational policies, micro-ethnographic classroom studies, and ethnographies of learning processes.
Key themes include: Ethnographic analyses of teaching and learning practices; Discipline, power, and authority relations; The influence of social markers such as class, gender, and ethnicity in education and the production and reproduction of inequalities; Pedagogical movements and teacher training; Studies on different knowledge systems, learning techniques, and skills; Interculturality and the challenges of culturally adapted schooling; Environment and education; Studies on the formative aspects of religions.
