Serrano Nosso Morro (Our Mountain)
Spring 2017 Featured Ethnographic Film Maker: Paloma Yáñez This film is about teaching visual methods and doing collaborative visual ethnography with young people from Rocinha, the largest favela and Gávea […]
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Another piece about doing ethnographic research during the pandemic crisis
by: Jolynna Sinanan, University of Sydney We all agree that participant observation, ‘hanging out’, ‘being there’ and ‘being in the field’ is essential to conducting […]
Teaching Anthropology: Residential Schools and Intergenerational Trauma
BY: KAELIANA SMOKE, Undergraduate Student, University of Toronto Mississauga As an Indigenous scholar, studying anthropology in Canada at the University of Toronto Mississauga, I understand […]
The Impact of Student Positionality on Teaching Anthropology
As a teaching stream professor, I am responsible for teaching six undergraduate courses in an Academic year. I am struck by the changing landscape of […]
Teaching Linguistic Anthropology using Inclusive Pedagogy and Disney’s Coco
BY: JESSICA CHANDRAS, visiting Assistant Professor, Kenyon College I have found that inclusive pedagogical practices have been exceptionally effective teaching linguistic anthropological themes and concepts. […]
What Socio-Cultural Anthropology can do for Education?
By Georgia Sarikoudi (in the name of the TRANSCA Team), Post-doc Fellow at University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki Ιn an era of great universal political and […]
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 […]
Community-Engaged Learning (CEL) as a Logical fit for Teaching Anthropology
Thanks to a three year Community Partnerships grant, I am part of an Indigenous Action Group coordinating a community-engaged learning course with the Mississaugas of […]
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 […]