{"title":"Perceptions of Risk, Lives in Sacrifice: Service, Learning, and Liberation Pedagogy in Appalachia","authors":"J. Wies","doi":"10.5070/T31139332","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5070/T31139332","url":null,"abstract":"Author(s): Wies, Jennifer | Abstract: In the Appalachian mountains, residents experience disproportionately high rates of poverty, exorbitant rates of incarceration, above-average mortality rates across the lifespan, and epidemically low educational attainment rates. The complexities of this region prompt consideration of the possibilities for an anthropology-inspired, liberation-focused pedagogy to redress structural inequalities. Experiential pedagogical approaches to learning mobilize students and communities toward common goals, though barriers exist to implementing these methods, including resource constraints and concerns about effectiveness. Amidst internal and external pressures on the teaching and learning of anthropology at the postsecondary level, this paper explores a case study in which students in a medical anthropology service-learning course partnered with the community to understand two broad areas: 1) perceptions of risk and control related to environmental hazards, and 2) motivation for participating in civic action. Student field notes and field work reflections provide data illustrating the way the project supported student learning of anthropology content as well as identity transformation. Using this case study, this paper first addresses the possibility of meaningfully engaging in community-based research while meeting course-based student learning outcomes. Second, this paper examines the operationalizing of anthropology methods to develop a process for measuring the impact of service-learning in anthropology courses, specifically related to anthropology content. Lastly, this paper considers the extent to which we can measure transformations of identity that result from immersive anthropology experiences. The results of this case study show that service-learning is a mechanism for both community-based research collaboration and measurable, positive impacts on student learning.","PeriodicalId":227896,"journal":{"name":"Teaching and Learning Anthropology","volume":"516 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123092955","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Who is Juan?","authors":"A. Huffman, J. Guamán","doi":"10.5070/t31141672","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5070/t31141672","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":227896,"journal":{"name":"Teaching and Learning Anthropology","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134199528","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review of Ungrading: Why Rating Students Undermines Learning (and What to Do Instead), edited by Susan D. Blum","authors":"Daniel Ginsberg","doi":"10.5070/t30055698","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5070/t30055698","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":227896,"journal":{"name":"Teaching and Learning Anthropology","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134524260","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kiran C. Jayaram, Matthew Pajunen, Chad Garcia, Neudy Carolina Nuñez, Jae-Anne Smith
{"title":"Challenges and Opportunities for Non-Tenure-Track Faculty during the Time of COVID-19","authors":"Kiran C. Jayaram, Matthew Pajunen, Chad Garcia, Neudy Carolina Nuñez, Jae-Anne Smith","doi":"10.5070/t34151992","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5070/t34151992","url":null,"abstract":"Author(s): Jayaram, Kiran; Pajunen, Matthew; Garcia, Chad; Nunez, Neudy Carolina; Smith, Jae-Anne | Abstract: In Spring 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic forced university instructors across the United States to confront the daunting task of quickly changing their courses from face-to-face to remote instruction. Nationally, universities relied on virtual platforms as they adjusted educational spaces in response to the pandemic. While there have been many anecdotes of how individual faculty responded to this transition, social scientists have yet to study systematically how instructors handled this transition. This article presents and analyzes data from semi-structured interviews with non-tenure-track social science faculty to understand how they handled the change to remote teaching after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. It analyzes these interviews by drawing on intersecting perspectives from the anthropology of disaster, anthropology of education, and digital anthropology. We argue the transition to online teaching presented new challenges and opportunities to instructors as people coping with novel health concerns, family obligations, and space-time changes. Simultaneously, this change created pedagogical issues related to continuity of instruction, classroom presence, and emotional labor. We conclude with recommendations and directions for future research.n","PeriodicalId":227896,"journal":{"name":"Teaching and Learning Anthropology","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126608277","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Is This Still Triage? Or Are We Back to Teaching?","authors":"Jennifer Trivedi","doi":"10.5070/t34152267","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5070/t34152267","url":null,"abstract":"Author(s): Trivedi, Jennifer | Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted teaching over the past year, pushing many instructors and students into remote learning. These changes have forced new discussions about serious issues with the digital divide and an array of intersectional inequities, and they have prompted conversations about the physical and mental health of everyone involved. While initial transitions to remote learning were treated as distinct from previous in-person or online learning, increasingly we are seeing a push to “return to normal.” This essay argues that pandemic recoveries take many forms, and risk and uncertainty must continue to shape our teaching. We must continue to engage with critical issues related to inequity, intersectionality, and broad discussions of health if we are to ensure a safe return.n","PeriodicalId":227896,"journal":{"name":"Teaching and Learning Anthropology","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126883530","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review of Explorations: An Open Invitation to Biological Anthropology, edited by Beth Shook, Katie Nelson, Kelsie Aguilera, and Lara Braff","authors":"Kevin Gibbons, Zev A. Cossin","doi":"10.5070/t34152888","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5070/t34152888","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":227896,"journal":{"name":"Teaching and Learning Anthropology","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126216616","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mental Health in the Time of COVID-19: Structural Violence, the Mindful Body, and Teen Advocacy","authors":"Jamie Kim, Sophia Peifer, Olivia Chen, A. Haas","doi":"10.5070/t34152897","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5070/t34152897","url":null,"abstract":"Author(s): Kim, Jamie; Peifer, Sophia; Chen, Olivia; Haas, Amital | Abstract: This essay describes a film that was produced for a community-engaged research project in a Spring 2020 Medical Anthropology course. The authors collaborated with the Society for the Prevention of Teen Suicide (SPTS) to make a video on how to practice mental well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic. The film can be viewed at https://commons.princeton.edu/ant240-s20/program-for-community-engaged-scholarship-proces-projects/educating-teens-to-prevent-suicide/.","PeriodicalId":227896,"journal":{"name":"Teaching and Learning Anthropology","volume":"80 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115002898","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Captive Audience: A Film to Express Students’ Perspectives during the COVID-19 Pandemic Pivot","authors":"Maria Jo Phelps","doi":"10.5070/t34152147","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5070/t34152147","url":null,"abstract":"Author(s): Phelps, Maria Jo | Abstract: This essay introduces a film that was produced for a course project during the Spring 2020 semester. The film, entitled “Captivity,” presents music students’ perspectives and experiences early in the pandemic. It points to the important role that the arts play in people’s lives as they navigate frightening and uncertain situations. The film can be viewed at https://blount.as.ua.edu/captivity/.","PeriodicalId":227896,"journal":{"name":"Teaching and Learning Anthropology","volume":"2013 26","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120968549","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Anthropology in the World: Studying Current Events of 2020 through the Lens of Structural Violence and Embodiment","authors":"Anne E. Pfister, Maria Encinosa","doi":"10.5070/t34152506","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5070/t34152506","url":null,"abstract":"Author(s): Pfister, Anne E; Encinosa, Maria | Abstract: Although the COVID-19 pandemic created challenges for faculty and students alike, it was also a catalyst for new collaborations. Our faculty-student project capitalized on what the pandemic publicly exposed: the fact that human health and culture are inextricably intertwined. We write this commentary as an anthropology professor and student who developed a Directed Independent Study focused on salient social and biological phenomena of 2020 while also adapting pedagogical and methodological approaches given the circumstantial constraints. By applying an anthropological lens to current events of 2020, we operationalized anthropological theories – like structural violence and embodiment – that are typically distant abstractions to students.n","PeriodicalId":227896,"journal":{"name":"Teaching and Learning Anthropology","volume":"1022 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116256549","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}