Learning How to Wash Your Hands in Anthropology Class
Anne Schiller, George Mason University From the outset of the SARS-Covid 19 pandemic, governments and private entities worldwide launched health awareness campaigns that included instruction […]
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Welcome back to in-person teaching – or is it?
Sherry Fukuzawa, University of Toronto Mississauga, Toronto Canada My post-COVID in-person lectures seem to have significantly less attendance than my pre-pandemic courses and I am […]
International Development and Poetic Practice: An Online Classroom Activity
Anne Schiller – George Mason University Cultural anthropology courses frequently satisfy world cultures requirements, attracting enrollments from across the university. My 150-seat online introductory course, […]
Teaching through Tension at the Crossroads of America
Valerie Miller1, Shradha Naveen2, Amanda Waller3, Jennifer L. Johnson4 Purdue University. mill2206@purdue.edu (corresponding author) Purdue University. snaveen@purdue.edu Purdue University. wallera@purdue.edu Purdue University. jlj@purdue.edu The pandemic […]
Teaching Empathy with Anthropology
BY: Mitchell Ma, PhD Candidate, University of Toronto Empathy is defined as sharing and understanding others’ emotions. Although the ability probably predated the human species, […]
Anthropology withdrawal symptoms
by Tomislav Marić, Assistant Headteacher, Bentley Wood High School Since I have stopped teaching A level anthropology in 2018 (and this was not because of […]
Teaching Anthropology during a Global Pandemic
By Sherry Fukuzawa Social distancing, masks, and quarantines changed the way we all live in this world. As post-secondary institutions closed their campuses and scrambled […]
Feeling theory in the classroom
by: Olivia Barnett-Naghshineh https://www.oliviabarnettnaghshineh.com/ Anthropology as a discipline has an almost inherent assumption that our methodology makes every experience or social phenomena potentially knowable through […]
Welcome to Teaching Anthropology 2021
As the incoming editors of Teaching Anthropology we’d like to say hello and give you a sense of our future direction. We want to expand the practical content, sharing resources, experiences and reflections that will directly help others in their teaching. Our vision for Teaching Anthropology, and its online platform, is that it becomes both a record of the evolution of anthropological teaching and a go to hub for pedagogical inspiration.
Hybridized Project-based Learning in a local cemetery: Changing course design and student responses
by: Heather Battles, University of Auckland In my article for Teaching Anthropology (Battles, 2020), I used a case study of my experience with a cemetery […]