Facing The Frontier: Long-time teaching assistant to first-time (reluctant) instructor
BY: Sarah Ranlett, PhD Candidate, University of Toronto In the course of pursuing a doctorate (as I currently am), teaching has never sparked in me, […]
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Teaching and Learning Anthropology in Eastern and Southeastern Europe
Ioannis Manos, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece Social anthropology is a recently established and developed […]
Liminality in the Classroom
Madeleine Mant, Banting Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Archaeology, Memorial University of Newfoundland Such is the reality of anthropological education that one must be prepared to […]
Teaching Students to Think like Anthropologists
As 2017 comes to an end I can’t help but reflect on the timely relaunch of the Teaching Anthropology Journal. The majority of students […]
Kanraxël – The Confluence of Agnack
In the current context of ever-progressing globalisation and urbanization, multiculturalism is often seen as a problematic phenomenon belonging to the modern world. However, linguistic and […]
Librarian and Anthropology Faculty Collaborations to Bolster Student Learning
BY: Juliann Coulture Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Librarian University of Colorado Boulder Take a moment to consider an assignment you often use in your courses. What […]
How do we introduce students to thinking anthropologically?
Artour Mitski, Social Studies and Languages of East and Southeast Asia, Doctoral Researcher,School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London University of London First signs […]
Accent profiling, power imbalances and access to Higher Education: A case for the return of anthropology to schools
Teaching anthropology in schools is promoted as a path for British pupils to face the world they live in from culturally contextualized perspectives. However, this […]
Teaching Anthropology in Uncertain Times
Patrick Alexander This post reaches you from a suitably changeable July afternoon in Oxford, with dark clouds hurrying across the sky, promising rain but […]
Staying Current: the benefits and potential pitfalls of teaching through current events
Should we relate course content to current events? How helpful is that? How can it be sensibly done? Trying to relate course content to current […]