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Teaching Rites and Wrongs: Universities and the Making of Anthropologists has just been published by Sociology, Anthropology, Politics (C-SAP). Copies will be sent out in the New Year to C-SAP departmental contacts and reference group members. If you would like a copy, please contact Andrew Harrison at C-SAP. More details below.
David
Teaching Rites and Wrongs: Universities and the Making of Anthropologists. Birmingham: Sociology, Anthropology, Politics (C-SAP). C-SAP Monograph Series 2. 165 pp. ISBN 1-902-191-285. £12.00/free
Edited by David Mills and Mark Harris.
What effect are higher education reforms having on the working lives and academic identities of junior and temporary lecturers?
What perspectives can anthropology offer into these processes, and into the first experiences of university teaching?
Recent reforms of UK higher education have led to an expansion in student numbers, a growing institutional status hierarchy and the separation and prioritisation of research over teaching. Departments are increasingly dependent on temporary staff and postgraduates for much undergraduate teaching, and with no guarantee of an academic career they are vulnerable to exploitation. The impacts of these institutional changes on personal lives and for academic collegiality are rarely discussed within the social sciences.
The authors use their anthropological training and ethnographic skills to reflect on their first experiences as teachers and lecturers within universities. Despite all the odds, they reveal a strong commitment to teaching and to student learning. Comparing different institutional and educational environments, their accounts are revealing, inspiring, and occasionally shocking.
This volume is essential reading for all those thinking of a career in higher education, for 'academic-managers' and for anthropologists themselves.
The book is free for those working in UK Higher Education, and £12 (inc postage) for others. Please contact [log in to unmask] for a copy.
Book contents:
Introduction: Teaching rites and wrongs
DAVID MILLS AND MARK HARRIS
1. Disciplinarity and the teaching vocation
DAVID MILLS
2. Still the unmentionable? Class and labour in the reproduction of contemporary British Social Anthropology
ROBERT GIBB
3. Part of the furniture? The impact of institutional cultures on new lecturers
CAROLINE OLIVER
4. What's in a name? Working as a 'teaching assistant' at University College London and as an 'associate lecturer' at the Open University
MICHAEL WILMORE
5. Mind the gap? Moving from school and college to university
BONNIE VANDESTEEG
6. Teaching the canon: reflections on anthropology's responsibilities
IAN HARPER AND PRATYOUSH ONTA
7. Teaching the field: the order, ordering and scale of knowledge
ALBERTO CORSIN-JIMENEZ
Appendix: Resources for new teachers
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