Educational anthropology
Educational anthropology, or the anthropology of education, is a sub-field of anthropology and is widely associated with the pioneering work of Margaret Mead and later, George Spindler, Solon Kimball, and Dell Hymes, and Jean Lave. It gained attraction as a field of study during the 1970s, particularly due to professors at Teachers College, Columbia University. As the name would suggest, the focus of educational anthropology is on education, although an anthropological approach to education tends to focus on the cultural aspects of education, including informal as well as formal education. Some of the earliest texts that argued for and illustrated the usefulness of anthropology applied to formal educational settings were Education and Anthropology (1955), edited by George Spindler, and Anthropological Perspectives on Education (1971), co-edited by Murray L. Wax,  Stanley Diamond, and Fred O. Gearing.Educational anthropologists try to focus on education and multiculturalism, educational pluralism, culturally relevant pedagogy and native methods of learning and socializing. Educational anthropologists are also interested in the education of marginal and peripheral communities within large nation states.