{"title":"Training for teaching medical anthropology in Egypt/the Arab region","authors":"Margret Jaeger, Mustafa Abdalla","doi":"10.22582/ta.v13i1.716","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22582/ta.v13i1.716","url":null,"abstract":"Medical anthropology is a growing subfield of anthropology, especially as a subject within health education. Medical anthropology knowledge and skills improve the satisfaction of patients and health professionals, better health outcomes for patients, improve communication, avoid conflicts, or make it possible to deal successfully with these etc. The Arab region is an underserved one when it comes to medical anthropology in health education. We carried out the first project that trained teachers for medical anthropology in health education in Egypt / the Arab region in 2020 / 2021. Training with a regional focus is crucial to create a competent local workforce.","PeriodicalId":407748,"journal":{"name":"Teaching Anthropology","volume":"1 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141803208","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":"‘Before we begin…’: The Role of Introductions in Anthropological Education","authors":"Sander Holsgens","doi":"10.22582/ta.v13i1.713","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22582/ta.v13i1.713","url":null,"abstract":"The classroom – and a first seminar or tutorial in specific – affords a seemingly infinite number of starting points, invitations, orientations, and departures. This report reflects on the introduction as a pedagogical tool of, for, and as ethnography, by building upon the work of Eugenia Zuroski. Zooming in on a graduate course in media ethnography and storytelling, I will sketch how a reconfiguration of introductions can both instill an ethnographic sensibility and foster rapport and solidarity in the classroom. Considering how to start a course can generate a more situated pedagogy for anthropological education.","PeriodicalId":407748,"journal":{"name":"Teaching Anthropology","volume":"57 24","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141838138","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}
Diane Hoffman, David Saavedra, Tsehuajab Washul, Christof Fehrman
{"title":"Learning to Think Like an Anthropologist? Toward Understanding Student Acquisition of Anthropological Perspectives in Online vs. Face-to-Face Anthropology of Education Courses","authors":"Diane Hoffman, David Saavedra, Tsehuajab Washul, Christof Fehrman","doi":"10.22582/ta.v13i1.710","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22582/ta.v13i1.710","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, online approaches to teaching anthropology have become popular in higher education. In this exploratory account, we consider how student understanding of anthropological ideas differed in online vs. face-to-face modalities of an anthropology of education course. Through content analysis of student essays and discussion posts over 8 semesters of the course as it was delivered in both formats, we considered patterns in students’ conceptual responses to anthropological ideas. Our analysis revealed differences in student conceptual engagement, with greater acquisition and understanding of anthropological perspectives in the face-to-face course than in the online course. Drawing from recent work in the anthropology of learning that emphasizes interactional and social dimensions of learning, we suggest that a possible explanation for these differences lies in features of the interaction environment in each course. Our study points to ways in which the fine-grained study of online course environments through analysis of student writing may offer significant insights into improving teaching of anthropology in such contexts more generally. ","PeriodicalId":407748,"journal":{"name":"Teaching Anthropology","volume":"16 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141837983","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":"Applied / Engaged / Activist / (ultimately) Kuleana Anthropology in the Classroom and Beyond – An Interview with Professor Christine Yano","authors":"Shivani Daxini, Christine Yano","doi":"10.22582/ta.v13i1.705","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22582/ta.v13i1.705","url":null,"abstract":"Christine Yano has recently retired as Professor of Anthropology at the University of Hawaii. She has conducted research on Japan and Japanese Americans with a focus on popular culture. At the University of Hawaii, she taught a course called ‘Applied/ Engaged/Activist (ultimately) Kuleana Anthropology’. This is predicated upon the idea that we need not choose between scholarship on the one hand, and community engagement on the other, and it encourages consideration for how anthropologists can nurture lasting relationships with those whom they work with. In this interview, the concept of ‘Kuleana’ driven anthropology is introduced and Christine unpacks the realities of publishing with students, decolonizing the curriculum, sparking student interest, and building trust in the classroom.","PeriodicalId":407748,"journal":{"name":"Teaching Anthropology","volume":"1 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141837848","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":"Teaching Race with Optimism and Hope","authors":"U. Baram","doi":"10.22582/ta.v12i2.694","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22582/ta.v12i2.694","url":null,"abstract":"Teaching that includes exposing systematic inequalities, racism, and sexism is facing challenges in Florida, USA. While the news media covers the new legislation in Florida, laws that are being replicated across the United States and dovetail with similar political intrusions into academia across the globe, the implications are found with how practices have changed. Reflecting on two decades of teaching on race and ethnicity in global perspective, this article describes the anthropology course offered at an honors college in terms of the teaching style, structure, and content. An anthropology of optimism and hope animates the pedagogy. Yet the course faces scrutiny under 2022 state legislation and is no longer being offered at New College of Florida.","PeriodicalId":407748,"journal":{"name":"Teaching Anthropology","volume":"308 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139210258","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":"Teaching Virtual Forensic Anthropology Labs: Methods and Reflections","authors":"Jade Ross, Clarence Surette, Kathleen Whitaker, Tamara Varney","doi":"10.22582/ta.v12i2.676","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22582/ta.v12i2.676","url":null,"abstract":"Development of virtual labs for Forensic Anthropology was complicated by the notion that the skeleton cannot be learned without physical manipulation. This was addressed by using free programs to teach using 3D models of bone. Successes and shortcomings are discussed based on student and educator feedback. Integration of 3D models in teaching is plausible as it reduces deterioration of specimens and increases accessibility of the lab, however, the ethics of digital archaeology, including curation of human skeletal models, is an unsolved challenge. Overall, although 3D modelling cannot replace hands-on learning, teaching virtually can indeed ensure high-quality instruction is delivered.","PeriodicalId":407748,"journal":{"name":"Teaching Anthropology","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139209346","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":"Teaching Medical Anthropology in UK Medical Schools: Cultivating Autoethnographic Practice among Medical Students","authors":"Tyler Harvey, Lisa Dikomitis, Brianne Wenning","doi":"10.22582/ta.v12i2.695","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22582/ta.v12i2.695","url":null,"abstract":"Behavioural and social sciences (BSS) are a core component of undergraduate medical education in the United Kingdom. Despite the formal recognition of BSS by the UK’s General Medical Council (GMC), anthropology remains largely at the periphery in the medical curriculum. Medical students often describe it as ‘fluffy’ or as ‘common sense’, in comparison to biomedical learning content. To make anthropology more relevant and applicable to future clinical practice, we draw on ethnographic data (interviews, focus groups, field notes and reflective texts written by medical students) collected by an anthropologist during fieldwork in two UK medical schools. We suggest moving this content out of the preclinical phase and instead incorporating it into the clinical phase. Specifically, we propose that having students conduct a micro-autoethnography during the clinical phase brings together two crucial aspects of medical student training: BSS principles and formation of a professional identity. Embedding these concepts in this specific context will allow students to process tensions they may feel between interactions they observe in a clinical context and team versus what they have been formally taught. This process allows them to negotiate their own professional identity between practice and ideal while more robustly situating BSS content in a relevant and immediately applicable manner within the current constraints of the medical curriculum.","PeriodicalId":407748,"journal":{"name":"Teaching Anthropology","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139210517","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}
Shaozeng Zhang, Kellen Copeland, B. Thomsen, Michael Harte, Shelby Copeland, Dane Nickerson, Sam Fennell, Bryan Breidenbach, Kelly Faulkner, Chiayi Chen, Marshall Floyd, Liann Goldmann, Reilly Scheffing, Megan Mooney, Price Willoch, M. Mihaljević, Sommer Dallabona, Max Duggan, Amy Schneider, Mayley Taylor, Asier Hernandez-Saez, Laun Michael
{"title":"A Vertically Integrated Project Approach to Ethnographic Methods Training","authors":"Shaozeng Zhang, Kellen Copeland, B. Thomsen, Michael Harte, Shelby Copeland, Dane Nickerson, Sam Fennell, Bryan Breidenbach, Kelly Faulkner, Chiayi Chen, Marshall Floyd, Liann Goldmann, Reilly Scheffing, Megan Mooney, Price Willoch, M. Mihaljević, Sommer Dallabona, Max Duggan, Amy Schneider, Mayley Taylor, Asier Hernandez-Saez, Laun Michael","doi":"10.22582/ta.v12i2.688","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22582/ta.v12i2.688","url":null,"abstract":"The Vertically Integrated Project (VIP) model, developed in engineering, is a methodological approach that integrates undergraduate students, graduate students and faculty in projects for both research and student training. Recent applications of this model report that it could foster student-faculty collaboration, empower senior students to mentor juniors, transcend disciplinary silos that often hinder research, and promote diversity and inclusivity in higher education. Our cross-disciplinary experimentation with this model in ethnographic methods training demonstrates its value to facilitate or even institutionalize faculty-student collaborative research and mutual learning in social sciences. We also suggest transforming this model to be less hierarchical in collaboration, more mutually beneficial for all involved, and more sustainable for long-term projects.","PeriodicalId":407748,"journal":{"name":"Teaching Anthropology","volume":"35 37","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139239957","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":"The Rambling Reflections of an Anthropologist: a Look Back at the Educational Journey and Research Development Through the Covid-19 Pandemic","authors":"Emily Lloyd-Evans","doi":"10.22582/ta.v12i1.703","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22582/ta.v12i1.703","url":null,"abstract":"This piece provides the opportunity to reflect upon the period of my master’s studies, undertaken during the Covid-19 pandemic. In the first part, it highlights a project on ‘WitchTok’ that emerged through my engagement with the TikTok Ethnography Collective and through an exploration of my prior interest in Witches. In the second part, it reflects on my engagement with the TikTok Ethnography Collective and what it offered for my research.","PeriodicalId":407748,"journal":{"name":"Teaching Anthropology","volume":"53 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139278405","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":"In the Cracks of Attention: ADHD, Vernacular Anthropologies and Communities of Care on TikTok","authors":"Toby Austin Locke","doi":"10.22582/ta.v12i1.683","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22582/ta.v12i1.683","url":null,"abstract":"ADHD related content on TikTok has seen a surge in prominence, becoming the 7th most used public health related hashtag in October 2021. This growth of content has been accompanied by concern from the medical and psychiatric community regarding self-diagnosis and misinformation. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in online and offline settings with people who identify with the category of ADHD, discourses on the attention economy, and anthropological theories of traps, this article offers a framing of ADHD as a vernacular anthropology: a theory of being human in the contemporary world. ADHD, and related content on TikTok, is understood as an analytic category deployed in the collective understanding of human being and becoming in digitally entangled worlds, and a process of collective pedagogy concerning the conditions and possibilities of life. From this point of view, ADHD content on TikTok can be seen as the formation of pedagogical communities of care which emerge in the cracks of the attention economy and algorithmic agency.","PeriodicalId":407748,"journal":{"name":"Teaching Anthropology","volume":"78 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139278056","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}