Climate Crisis and the Classroom: Becoming Sustainable Learners
BY: LOUISE EVANS, undergraduate student, University of Glasgow As Greta Thunberg sails the Atlantic in support of the no-fly movement, we are made increasingly aware […]
Articles by Alison Macdonald
A foreign student, not yet an international learner.
by Nattha Chuenwattana, PhD Candidate, University of Toronto Mississauga “What does a foreigner have to do to master academic english?” I am always thinking about this myself as an international graduate […]
Feminizing the Canon: Classics in Anthropology from the Perspective of Female Authors
PhD Ana Gretel Echazú Böschemeier, PPGSCol/UFRN (Brazil)[i]; PhD Izis Morais Lopes dos Reis, MPDFT/DF (Brazil)[ii];PhD Natalia Cabanillas, PPGS, FAFICH/UFMG (Brazil)[iii]; PhD Olga Rodríguez-Sierra, ICe/UFRN (Brazil)[iv]; […]
Teaching Tolerance
In the fall of 2016 and spring of 2017, four anthropologists observed how students and educators responded to the presidential election. One year on from […]
From Potlatch to Prisoner’s Dilemma: An Effective Classroom Simulation for Teaching Some Anthropological Concepts
Anthropologists who are teaching undergraduate students are faced with the challenge of not only explaining key anthropological concepts, but doing so in ways that make […]
Sensory walking: teaching methods in motion
BY: Rajko Muršič redni profesor / Prof. In teaching anthropology, it is extremely important for students not to equate ethnographic fieldwork with interviewing, especially if they had to […]
“What is man?”: art challenging anthropology
BY: Elpida Rikou, PhD In the year 2008-2009 a group of students of the Department of Visual Arts of the Athens School of Fine Arts […]
Talking about race in text and in person: Is hiding behind a screen helpful?
BY: John Loewenthal, Oxford Brookes University It is increasingly acknowledged that many white people find it uncomfortable to talk about race – especially to large […]
TEACHING ANTHROPOLOGY TO CHILDREN IN EVERYDAY LIFE
BY: Barbara Turk Niskač Can you teach anthropology to very young children? Children learn by observation and experience, so anthropology seems like an inevitable and […]
Anthropological detours in Greece during the refugee crisis
BY: Pinelopi Topali In 2015 the “refugee crisis” reached the island, and an interest in migration swept the university. Students were fascinated by these strangers […]