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Doing research, thinking about teaching: anthropology-led approaches to Latin America and the Caribbean
Call for Proposals - Postgraduate Opportunities for Practice-Based Teaching
APOLOGIES FOR CROSS-POSTING
This project is funded by C-SAP (Centre for learning and teaching Sociology, Anthropology and Politics) and co-ordinated by the Latin America Bureau (LAB) and the Department of Anthropology at Goldsmiths College. It seeks to provide a forum in which postgraduates can investigate and use their research and expertise on Latin America and the Caribbean to plan and lead day-long workshops for a range of participants from both academic and non academic backgrounds. We hope to schedule six workshops at regular intervals starting from September 2004 and running until April 2005.
Individual, joint or group proposals are invited from those interested in co-ordinating a day workshop where they can develop teaching practice around issues they consider to be of importance, with an emphasis in using ethnographic research to illuminate wider socio-economic and political structures and developments. Ideas or proposals to develop the following themes are encouraged:
· Teaching Latin American studies - developing content in response to student interest and priorities in the region
· Haiti: the History behind the Crisis and its implications for the Caribbean region
· Social responses to natural resource privatisation.
· Trade in the Americas: who's for and against and why?
· The left in power in Latin America
· Still the backyard? US policy towards Latin America and the Caribbean
The focus of the project is to encourage creative teaching practice amongst postgraduates by thinking through different methodologies and ways to promote interaction and learning. Proposals should include a breakdown of how the day might be structured; ideas for educational materials and handouts; any additional speakers or specialists (eg activists/academics/journalists); ideas about how to practically relate ethnography to wider learning and interaction for a non specialist audience. Support and advice will be available to all those interested in co-ordinating a workshop.
An email list will be created where ideas, suggestions and experiences can be circulated. Monies are available for travel and subsistence; to hire equipment (eg a projector to show documentaries); to invite guest speakers (for example, journalists or activists). LAB and Goldsmiths will be responsible for advertising and promotion to recruit participants for the workshops.
We are open to support proposals to co-ordinate workshops outside London if premises can be arranged and sufficient interest can be demonstrated.
Please send proposals, suggestions, ideas, comments or questions to both Kate Cooper and Jean McNeil by 1st August 2004. Please also send us your email if you would like to be informed about future developments via our email list: mailto:[log in to unmask]; mailto:[log in to unmask]
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