Noa Lavi
University of Haifa, Anglia Ruskin University, Tel Aviv University, University College, London
0000-0002-1535-1968
About
I am a social anthropologist working on childhood, education and parent-child relations. In my work, I integrate my ethnographic research among indigenous people in the forested Nilgiri hills in South India (the Kattunayaka people, historically known as hunter-gatherers) with my work in Forest School and Outdoor Education in England and years of experience as an outdoor and environmental education instructor. Alongside my academic research and teaching, I give public lectures and provide consultancy services to educators.
My research interests, public lectures and consultancy services focus on
perceptions of the social and natural environment and their influence on:
- Children and childhood
- Family relations
- Teaching and learning
- Social and emotional learning
- Child development
- Perceptions of child rearing
- Marginalized societies and school programs
- Play and play objects
- The experience of aid and development initiatives
Employment
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University of Haifa Teaching Fellow2024 - Present
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Anglia Ruskin University Visiting Research Fellow2022 - Present
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University College, London Honorary Fellow2020 - 2022
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University College, London Member2020 - 2022
Education
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University of Haifa PhD in Social Anthropology2013 - 2019
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University of Haifa MA2009 - 2012
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Tel Aviv University BA2006 - 2009
Projects & Funding
Projects & funding information is unavailable.
Publications (27)
- Living with a Changing Environment: An Ethnographic Account of Indigenous Forest Village Communities’ Experience of Floods and Landslides in the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, India Save
- Autonomous hunter-gatherer children in hierarchical schools: a review of the literature from the global South Save
- Mobility, site maintenance and archaeological formation processes: An ethnoarchaeological perspective Save
- Rewild Your Inner Hunter-Gatherer: How an Idea about Our Ancestral Condition Is Recruited into Popular Debate in Britain and Ireland Save
- Toys as teachers: a cross-cultural analysis of object use and enskillment in hunter--gatherer societies Save
- “We Only Teach Them How to Be Together”: Parenting, Child Development, and Engagement with Formal Education Among the Nayaka in South India Save
- Hunter-gatherer children at school: A view from the Global South Save
- Hunter-gatherer children’s object play and tool use: An ethnohistorical analysis Save
- Socioecology shapes child and adolescent time allocation in twelve hunter-gatherer and mixed-subsistence forager societies Save
- Hunter-gatherer children in the past: An archaeological review Save