Education · Boston College
Reframing education as formation helps us look beyond two prevlant myths about education: that learning happens mainly in schools and what is learned is always quotable "knowledge." Perhaps no discipline is more powerful in freeing us from these myths than anthropology. The formative frame centers questions of meaning; anthropology studies how human beings create, inhabit, and transform it. Formation is inevitably value-laden; anthropology seeks to unpack the rich variety of lived responses to the question of what matters and why. The formative frame decenters schools; the ethnographic
