A Classroom Research Project with Lasting Meaning
ELIZABETH KEATING, Professor of Anthropology & Graduate Faculty, Human Dimensions of Organizations, The University of Texas at Austin Teaching through research is recognized as one […]
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Multimodal ethnographies for teaching anthropological sensibilities
Anna Apostolidou PhD, Assistant Professor of Social Anthropology, Ionian University Given the history of our discipline, it seems rather peculiar that anthropologists are not more […]
Active learning as a pedagogical strategy to enhance the learning of anthropology
Marilou Polymeropoulou, University of Oxford, School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography Active learning is a well-established pedagogical strategy in secondary and tertiary education where independent […]
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 […]
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 […]