Paper short abstract:

This paper sets out the context of the RAI Education Committee’s development of an A Level, drawing on the concepts of anthropology in education and the anthropological study of education.

Paper long abstract:

Brian Street

This paper sets out the context of the RAI Education Committee's development of an A Level, as the background against which some of the other papers in this session will pursue the place of Anthropology in pre-university curricula. In considering the position of anthropology in these new educational contexts, I take account of anthropology in education and the anthropological study of education. The work done by the RAI's Education Committee to design and introduce a new GCE A- level in anthropology, culminating in its successful accreditation by the national regulator, and its current place in a number of UK schools, is described as a case-study of both anthropology in and of education. The implications of the experience so far for future directions will be briefly indicated.