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Gardner Cowles Professor of Anthropology and Education
Teachers College, Columbia University
Interests include culture, communication, and education with special attention to comparative and historical conditions. Polity and community theory, particularly as it applies to families, their immediate situations, and their positions in a global humanity as the joint production of all involved.
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Professor Varenne is on the faculty of the Programs in Anthropology at Teachers College, Columbia University. He has conducted research and published on life in a small Michigan town, a New Jersey high school, a suburb of Dublin, a family in Manhattan. He is interested in culture theory as it can be developed by focusing on the transformative possibilities of everyday education in families, communities, work places and other setting not generally know as educative. His main web site can be found at varenne.tc.columbia.edu.
Americans Together: Structured Diversity in A Midwestern Town. (1977).
American School Language: The Rhetorical Structuring of Daily Life in a Suburban High School. (1983)
Symbolizing America. (Editor. 1986)
Ambiguous Harmony: Family Talk in America (1992).
Successful failure: The School America builds, with Ray McDermott (1998).
Alternative anthropological perspectives on education Volume 1 of the Perspectives on Comprehensive Education, (co-edited with Edmund W. Gordon 2008)
Theoretical Perspectives on Comprehensive Education: The Way Forward. Volume 2 of the Perspectives on Comprehensive Education, (co-edited with Edmund W. Gordon 2009)
Educating Comprehensively: Varieties of Educational Experiences. Volume Three of the Perspectives on Comprehensive Education Series (Third editor with Linda Lin and Edmund W. Gordon 2010)
Educating in life: Ethnographies of challenging new normal, a collective book with J. de Wolfe, J. Koyama, G. Oliveira, S. Samaddar, M. Scroggins, D. Souleles, J. Van Tiem, S. Wessler. (2019)
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