C-SAP Lunchtime Workshops at the ASA Decennial Conference
These workshops, hosted by the Centre for Learning and Teaching Sociology,
Anthropology and Politics, will be held from 12.30 to 2pm during the ASA
decennial conference in Manchester this coming July.
A free buffet lunch and refreshments will be provided. Please let David
Mills ([log in to unmask]) know if you would like to come along.
Wednesday 16th July
Learning Anthropology: Disciplinary cultures and trading zones
Presentation and discussion led by Mary Taylor Huber (Senior Scholar, The
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Stanford, California)
and David Mills (Anthropology Co-ordinator, CSAP)
There is a growing scholarly debate, both in the US and the UK, about the
way academic disciplines nurture particular cultures of teaching and
learning within their university classrooms. Through the Carnegie
Foundation, American academics have been encouraged to carry out research
into their own approaches to teaching, and to explore the contributions
disciplinary scholarship can make to the educational literature. This
workshop will discuss how anthropology might learn from, and add to, this
debate. Mary Taylor Huber is an anthropologist and co-editor of Disciplinary
Styles in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: Exploring Common Ground
(2001).
Thursday 17th July
Postgraduate Teachers: ‘flexible’ academic labour?
Workshop led by David Mills (Anthropology Co-ordinator, CSAP)
In recent years, undergraduate seminar teaching has increasingly become the
responsibility of postgraduate and temporary tutors, usually on hourly
contracts, and sometimes with little support or training. C-SAP has recently
carried out a survey of postgraduate teachers within anthropology
departments. This workshop will be an opportunity to discuss the results and
its implications for the discipline. The workshop will discuss the AUT’s
Employment Charter and the possibility of adopting good-practice guidelines
for departments. The workshop will follow up the ‘Teaching Rites of Passage’
conference, held in January 2003 in St Andrews.
Thanks, David
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C-SAP: www.c-sap.bham.ac.uk
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David Mills,
Anthropology Co-ordinator,
C-SAP : Centre for learning and teaching
Sociology, Anthropology and Politics,
University of Birmingham,
Edgbaston, BIRMINGHAM B15 2TT
Phone: 01865 793328
Fax 0121 414 7920
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