The discussion of Anthropology as a science in dialogue with other fields of knowledge, among them education, puts the science we practice in the center of discussion and its effects or consequences when it is used to go from one field to another. The notion of culture becomes emblematic of this process, especially in American Cultural Studies which echoes in education more than it does in Latin America. Over there, the anthropological tradition is still recognized by its political and explanatory importance. This debate highlights the need for the anthropology of education to be modern and critical, a field under construction. This "new anthropology" should be present in the training of educators and social scientists, in order to confer autonomy and social responsibility to those intellectual working professionals, who educate and search various social realities to build knowledge.
anthropology; children; learning; culture; Mário de Andrade
