{"title":"The Turtle and the Fish in Latin America","authors":"J. Kalman","doi":"10.22582/ta.v11i1.663","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22582/ta.v11i1.663","url":null,"abstract":"If you had the opportunity to listen to Brian Street present a talk or read his work, the turtle and the fish will strike a familiar chord. Brian Street was an ethnographer, a literacy researcher, and an overall enthusiast about what human beings did and how they made sense of their worlds. He used the parable of the turtle and the fish to explain how what is familiar to us gets in the way of what is not, and the difficulties and often impossible obstacles to understanding other people’s lives and worlds. In this paper I reflect on Brian and his contribution to understanding literacy as a social practice in Latin America.","PeriodicalId":407748,"journal":{"name":"Teaching Anthropology","volume":"330 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123226627","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":"Brian Street and the LETTER Project","authors":"A. Rogers","doi":"10.22582/ta.v11i1.642","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22582/ta.v11i1.642","url":null,"abstract":"One of the many activities Brian was fond of quoting was the LETTER Project. He referred to it several times in his publications and it was this which caused him to write his book (with Alan Rogers) Adult Literacy and Development: stories from the field (2012). I am therefore glad of an opportunity to record something of this programme for him in this Special Memorial Issue.","PeriodicalId":407748,"journal":{"name":"Teaching Anthropology","volume":"293 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115929065","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":"Social Order: A Neglected Aspect of Brian Street’s Work on Literacy","authors":"Mostafa Hasrati","doi":"10.22582/ta.v11i1.635","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22582/ta.v11i1.635","url":null,"abstract":"This manuscript is a personal note to commemorate Brian Street and his legacy in education and most specifically in literacy. I acted as a respondent in the 4th Brian Street’s Memorial Event, entitled Decolonising Literacy, organised jointly by the British Association for Literacy in Development and UNESCO Chair in Adult Literacy and Learning for Social Transformation on November 18th, 2020. Before I give an account of the three papers presented in this event and explain why Brian’s work is still relevant, I would like to introduce Brian Street as I knew him.","PeriodicalId":407748,"journal":{"name":"Teaching Anthropology","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122723864","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":"'What's Going on Here?' Reflections on Brian Street's Contribution to Literacy Education","authors":"A. Robinson-Pant","doi":"10.22582/ta.v11i1.641","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22582/ta.v11i1.641","url":null,"abstract":"As a teacher and researcher of literacy, Brian Street introduced ethnographic inquiry to two quite different communities: adult literacy practitioners in India, Ethiopia and Uganda, and university students in the UK and USA. Through re-visiting his teaching materials and approaches, the article explores how he mediated key concepts within anthropology - such as ‘context’ and an ‘ethnographic frame of mind’ - through practical activities with university students and adult educators. Within higher education, Street’s research on academic literacies both emerged from and built on engagement with students and colleagues around the notion of literacy as a social practice shaped by institutional hierarchies and cultures. In development projects, Street extended his early (1984) research in Iran on multiple literacies, including what he termed UNESCO ‘essay-text’ literacy, into a ‘hands-on’ programme for literacy trainers to investigate everyday literacies often overlooked by formal adult literacy initiatives. Street’s active engagement in literacy teaching and learning resulted in methodological innovation, particularly the development of ‘ethnographic style’ methods. Arguing that applied anthropology was often seen as having a one-directional relationship with education, Street demonstrated that education could also make an intellectual contribution to anthropology in terms of deepening understanding of literacy, language and learning within the discipline.","PeriodicalId":407748,"journal":{"name":"Teaching Anthropology","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127897001","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":"Speaking ‘Literacy’ To Power. Reflections on Brian Street’s Contributions to Enriching Feminist Adult Literacy Praxis","authors":"M. Ghose","doi":"10.22582/ta.v11i1.656","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22582/ta.v11i1.656","url":null,"abstract":"This short reflective piece draws on my interactions with Brian Street from the time we worked together on the LETTER project – an action-research project that introduced adult literacy facilitators to ethnographic research methods in 2005-2006 – and more recent insights from my conversations with facilitators who had participated in the LETTER project. \u0000 ","PeriodicalId":407748,"journal":{"name":"Teaching Anthropology","volume":"39 3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127914678","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":"Brian Street (1943-2017): A Personal Reflection","authors":"H. Callan","doi":"10.22582/ta.v11i1.630","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22582/ta.v11i1.630","url":null,"abstract":"Brian Street was a scholar and teacher whose contributions to social anthropology, and influence on the discipline, span a range of interlocking themes. This article explores several of these: the relationships between anthropology and literature; the ethnographic study of literacies; anthropology and education; and anthropology as it can be practised and understood by non-specialists and ‘ordinary people’. Running through all these, in turn, are Street’s personal commitments to the practical applications of scholarship in informed development policy, education, and the furtherance of global citizenship; to the understanding of how power and inequality are perpetuated; and to the democratisation of knowledge.","PeriodicalId":407748,"journal":{"name":"Teaching Anthropology","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125936798","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":"‘Culture as a Verb’ and ‘Otherness’: Reflections on Conceptual Threads from Brian Street’s Early Writing","authors":"Maria Lucia Castanheira, Juliana Santos","doi":"10.22582/ta.v11i1.661","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22582/ta.v11i1.661","url":null,"abstract":"This text re-examines the early and ongoing work of Brian Street and highlights the lasting relevance of Street’s analysis of “ethnographic novels” presented in the book The Savage in Literature: Representations of ‘primitive’ society in English fiction 1858-1920. First, it presents an overview of Street’s analysis of representations of ‘primitive society’ in “ethnographic novels”, then, it identifies two conceptual threads – ‘culture as a verb’ and ‘otherness’ –, whose roots can be found in this book, and that Street continued to develop throughout his academic career. The paper argues that Street’s early work speaks directly to those concerned today with examining power relationships in colonial and post-colonial contexts. \u0000[Content warning: this article contains discussion of historical terms related to scientific racism from 19th and early 20th century literature]","PeriodicalId":407748,"journal":{"name":"Teaching Anthropology","volume":"127 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124903130","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":"Remembering Brian Street and his Work with International Baccalaureate (IB)","authors":"Hilary Ainger","doi":"10.22582/ta.v11i1.644","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22582/ta.v11i1.644","url":null,"abstract":"I met Brian in July 1978 when I attended the very first workshop for teachers of International Baccalaureate (IB) Social Anthropology (later to become Social and Cultural Anthropology) at the University of Sussex in Brighton, where Brian was then teaching. I’m no longer sure what I was expecting in an IB “Chief Examiner” but having grown up in Oxford, I know I was generally skeptical of academics as knowing much about the ‘real world’ and worried that a Chief Examiner would not be interested in the dynamics of a high school classroom or the perspectives of 16- and 17-year-old students themselves. Nonetheless I was entirely excited to be there - I had loved my first two years of teaching IB Anthropology and was pretty sure that this was what I wanted to do for the rest of my life! I was very wrong about the Chief Examiner but right about myself. In this paper I remember Brian Street and his role in the International Baccaulaureate. \u0000 ","PeriodicalId":407748,"journal":{"name":"Teaching Anthropology","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127924296","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":"How to Take Over and Revise a Medical Ethnology Course in the Post-Everything Era","authors":"Rachel Irwin","doi":"10.22582/ta.v11i2.655","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22582/ta.v11i2.655","url":null,"abstract":"Nearly all university lectures have faced the challenges of taking over a course from colleagues. Yet the conceptual and practical challenges of this process are rarely discussed in higher education. In this article, I describe my experiences of becoming the course convenor of an existing medical ethnology course and revising it. The first challenge was to make the course my own, while also maintaining the existing positive aspects. A secondary, but related, challenge was to update the course material in relation to contemporary social movements that have called for more attention to power, privilege and inclusivity in the classroom.","PeriodicalId":407748,"journal":{"name":"Teaching Anthropology","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123909728","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":"Experiencing Theory, Theorizing Methodology: Teaching Anthropology through Short-Time Ethnographic Fieldwork Projects in Multi-Disciplinary Academic Contexts","authors":"Vasilis Dalkavoukis, Paraskevas Potiropoulos","doi":"10.22582/ta.v10i2.506","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22582/ta.v10i2.506","url":null,"abstract":"Often enough, Anthropology seems as an ‘abstract’ discipline, especially when students of other social sciences or humanities try to get acquainted with its theory, methodology or the main anthropological discussion in general. Under these specific conditions, ‘teaching Anthropology’ becomes a task of high difficulty without a simultaneous ethnographic practice in the ‘field’. It is this specific ‘rite de passage’ which makes students under training in Anthropology seek theoretical schemas and methodological tools in order to ‘experience’ theory and ‘theorize’ methodology. In this paper we present ethnographic material collected from various teaching contexts where Anthropology is neither the main academic background nor the stated educational outcome for students taking the courses. In these courses, anthropological knowledge comes to the surface through an empirical engagement with ethnographic practice as an applied theory in a research project. This connection between theory and practice brings Anthropology to the foreground, since it engages students with both - the procedure of “doing field work” (something substantial for Anthropology) and their own social experience within this process. The ethnographic material for this reflective approach derives from various academic contexts where we have experienced the emergence of this type of learning. This includes ethnographic and anthropological courses (undergraduate or postgraduate) at the Department of History and Ethnology in Democritus University of Thrace Greece, and field trips including ethnographic exercise for the students and the Konitsa Summer School for Anthropology, Ethnography and Comparative Folklore of the Balkans, organized by the Border Crossings Network in collaboration with the University of Ioannina and the Municipality of Konitsa, Greece, at the Greek-Albanian border.","PeriodicalId":407748,"journal":{"name":"Teaching Anthropology","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116638904","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}