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>> CONFERENCE CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
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>> ‘Teaching Anthropology Today’
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>> 9-10 October 2008
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>> Pusey Hall, Keble College, University of Oxford
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>> Organisers:
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>> Keble College, University of Oxford
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>> Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford
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>> Department of Education, University of Oxford
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>> Welcome Address: David Gellner
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>> Keynote Lecture: Simon Coleman
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>> Anthropology is produced and reproduced within the teaching
>> relationship, as much as through research and writing. One could
>> speak of teaching and learning practices as embodying, passing on
>> and acquiring an anthropological ‘habitus’. What forces are at
>> play in this process? How do anthropologists learn how to teach?
>> How do our teaching and learning practices become embodied? How do
>> they shape fieldwork practices? How does the tension between
>> accumulation of knowledge and the focus on the self as a vehicle
>> for understanding unfold in teaching and learning? Do we reflect
>> on our teaching and learning ethnographically? What might we gain
>> from ethnographies of teaching and learning anthropology? How is
>> teaching/learning affected by changing disciplinary practices,
>> university regulations, educational reforms, and the desire to
>> bridge students’ lives with academia? How might relational
>> teaching/learning suit anthropologists?
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>> This conference will focus on quotidian practices of teaching and
>> learning and the relationships between lecturers and students. The
>> dynamic and multifaceted nature of these relationships is
>> difficult to understand in an ‘auditing culture’ of teaching
>> assessment. This workshop aims to discuss how lecturers design,
>> carry out and reflect on their teaching practices, and what
>> external and professional constraints and opportunities they
>> encounter in this process. We will discuss audit culture’s
>> attempts to measure and standardise 'teaching performance',
>> 'research quality' and 'institutional effectiveness', including
>> the debates on accountability, student participation and empowerment
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>> Experienced lecturers in anthropology or related disciplines as
>> well as junior lecturers and graduates with early teaching
>> experiences will discuss the following:
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>> - curriculum design; curriculum reform;
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>> - the future of lectures;
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>> - teaching and learning about fieldwork;
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>> - research supervision;
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>> - tutorials and small group teaching;
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>> - student feedback and the national student survey;
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>> - examining, marking and feedback on learning;
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>> - training anthropologists to teach;
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>> - shaping the discipline through teaching;
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>> - the pedagogical role of the departmental seminar;
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>> - teaching and ‘audit culture’;
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>> - the elephant in the lecture hall: what we have difficulty
>> discussing;
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>> - and other relevant topics.
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>>
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>> Participation:
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>> Please e-mail a 200 words abstract or expression of interest and
>> indicate whether you would like to organise a workshop or a
>> discussion session; make a short (10-15 min) presentation based on
>> your teaching experience or research or a longer presentation
>> (20-30 min) by 2 September 2008 to:
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>> [log in to unmask] Early confirmation of your
>> participation is available from 1th August 2008. Limited funding
>> is available to cover travel expenses.
>>
>>
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>> Registration:
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>> Registration is free of charge.
>>
>> To register please e-mail: [log in to unmask] as
>> soon as possible (places are limited) to obtain the registration
>> form and further information about availability and price of meals
>> and accommodation.
>>
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