ABSTRACT
Ray McDermott is a cultural anthropologist and a Professor in the School of Education, Stanford University. He has been doing research on theories of political economy and their relation to theories of mind, literacy, learning, ability, disability, and genius. From years of close work at the level of the classroom, his overall take is that American schooling is the unfortunate handmaiden of the divisive social forces that lead a duplicitous life in all the cultural materials available to participants. Recent work includes “A Century of Margaret Mead” and “Estranged Labor Learning” (with Jean Lave).
