| Christopher Perkins (Ph.D., sociocultural anthropology) is a Ph.D. candidate studying educational anthropology and critical pedagogy. His doctoral research involves the cultural politics of U.S. schools with a focus on parent-child and home-school relationships. Specifically, he is exploring the degree to which ideologies of race and class exist in U.S. preschool and kindergarten programs that are currently aimed toward getting parents to do more physical and ideological labor of educating children. “Chip” is continuing his field research in pre-kindergarten and kindergarten classrooms at a school in the Carbondale area while also interviewing parents, teachers and administrators about schooling. During his fieldwork he has begun to investigate the methodological and theoretical ramifications of exploring the socialization of the researcher autoethnographically, and he plans to present two papers regarding this issue this fall for the American Anthropological Association (AAA) as well as the American Educational Studies Association (AESA). |