Finding the ‘Red Thread’: How to Revise an Inherited Course.
Most lecturers have experienced inheriting a course to teach, often at short notice or with limited ability to overhaul the structure. Increasing use of short […]
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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 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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
How do we prepare our students for a realistic job market? Problem-based learning
Student-centered active learning strategies are heralded in the pedagogical literature as the best way to prepare students for the ever changing job market. Technology now […]
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]; […]
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 […]