Meta-Reflection as a Teaching Tool
This semester I taught a new course called “Wicked Science,” which examines the challenges posed by wicked problems — those problems that defy solution because of fundamental di…
Tag: Pedagogy
Teaching from the Textbooks: An Archaeology of the Current Historical Moment
On the last day of class, my advanced theory students would break up into small groups and each have the option of choosing one such old anthropology textbook…
Little Experiments in Worldmaking with Amor Mundi Lab
The AMOR MUNDI Multispecies Ecological Worldmaking Lab transpires as a collaborative space for emerging scholars, artists, scientists, and practitioners of all kinds working in the Global South with…
Anthropology for Liberation assessments
Over the past few years I have been sharing the readings I assign for an undergraduate course I teach at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, Anthropology for…
Building a “Web of Intrigue”: Teaching Food Studies
Pamela RunestadAllegheny College I presented a framework for building a Food Studies syllabus at the Umbra Institute in Perugia, Italy on June 10, 2022. Thanks to positive responses…
Teaching Culture through Tourism: Agency, Authenticity, and Colonialism
In this contribution, Karoline Guelke discusses how studies of tourism can help students overcome common misperceptions of other cultures as static and unchanging. During one of my first…
“We are not brains on sticks!” Teaching Anthropology with the Senses
Jess Auerbach is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at North-West University in South Africa. Her innovative ethnography, From Water to Wine: Becoming Middle Class in Angola, is a…
What online learning taught me about (online) teaching, by Andrew Walsh
Andrew Walsh is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Western University, London, Ontario. He is the author of Made in Madagascar in the Teaching Culture series. What more…
Ask-Me-Almost-Anything (AMAA): Centering Student Engagement with Ethnographic Monographs by Christine Sargent
“Why is this a book?” The student who volunteered this question during a class discussion could not have known how meaningful – and unsettling – I found the…
What Should Teachers Teach?
Source here. Educators are wringing their hands these days about how much students have “fallen behind” the past year. News story after news story laments a year of…
Why Pedagogy is an Anthropological Problem
Opening our teaching to risk, horizontal interactions, UnEssays, and ungrading offers ways to truly cultivate students’ learning needs, curiosity, and responsibility—in line with what anthropologists …
Why Pedagogy is an Anthropological Problem
Opening our teaching to risk, horizontal interactions, UnEssays, and ungrading offers ways to truly cultivate students’ learning needs, curiosity, and responsibility—in line with what anthropologists …
Why Pedagogy is an Anthropological Problem
Opening our teaching to risk, horizontal interactions, UnEssays, and ungrading offers ways to truly cultivate students’ learning needs, curiosity, and responsibility—in line with what anthropologists …
Ten Things about Anthropology for K–12 Education
Shannon Peck-Bartle is an educator in secondary social studies. She holds an MA in applied anthropology and is currently completing a PhD in curriculum and instructional design. She…
Ten Things about Anthropology for K–12 Education
Shannon Peck-Bartle is an educator in secondary social studies. She holds an MA in applied anthropology and is currently completing a PhD in curriculum and instructional design. She…
Ten Things about Anthropology for K–12 Education
Shannon Peck-Bartle is an educator in secondary social studies. She holds an MA in applied anthropology and is currently completing a PhD in curriculum and instructional design. She…
Training as a Solution
Participating in and delivering training sessions has helped me to address client problems and create future opportunities for my business. Now is an exciting time for anthropologists to…
Training as a Solution
Participating in and delivering training sessions has helped me to address client problems and create future opportunities for my business. Now is an exciting time for anthropologists to…
Training as a Solution
Participating in and delivering training sessions has helped me to address client problems and create future opportunities for my business. Now is an exciting time for anthropologists to…
Critical Pedagogy in Action
What happens when ethnographers of education ask, How can we help? It is close to the end of the fall 2020 semester for college- and school-age students. We…
Critical Pedagogy in Action
What happens when ethnographers of education ask, How can we help? It is close to the end of the fall 2020 semester for college- and school-age students. We…
Critical Pedagogy in Action
What happens when ethnographers of education ask, How can we help? It is close to the end of the fall 2020 semester for college- and school-age students. We…
Generating Queers
An embodied intergenerational pedagogy sheds light on the possibilities of bringing together diverse LGBTQ+ cohorts to strengthen our sense of value and inclusion within a history, lineage, and…
Generating Queers
An embodied intergenerational pedagogy sheds light on the possibilities of bringing together diverse LGBTQ+ cohorts to strengthen our sense of value and inclusion within a history, lineage, and…