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.