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****************************************************** * http://www.anthropologymatters.com * * A postgraduate project comprising online journal, * * online discussions, teaching and research resources * * and international contacts directory. * ****************************************************** FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS -- Deadline EXTENDED to September 15th! Teaching in the Field: Investigating the Ethics of Education in Ethnographic Research An interdisciplinary Workshop in Anthropology and Education: 19 November 2011 Hosted by the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology and the Department of Education, University of Oxford Keynote speaker: Professor David Parkin Workshop Organizers: Ann Lewis, MA; ISCA (U Oxford) Rachel Hall-Clifford, PhD, MPH, MSc; ISCA and Dept. of Primary Health Care (U Oxford) The workshop is organised in collaboration with the journal Teaching Anthropology (www.teachinganthropology.org) Education, as both process and place, forms a locus of many of the most deeply-held cultural beliefs and practices within a society. Teaching involves cultural particularities ranging from modes of knowledge transfer to expectations of student-teacher power dynamics to age and gender norms. Anthropologists and other social scientists frequently engage in teaching practices during field research. Teaching can be harnessed as a research method, creating entry to a field site and opening new possibilities for learning for the researcher. In this vein, anthropologists have affiliated themselves with and taught at local schools, colleges or universities. Through these undertakings, the anthropologist is exposed not only to a wider cross-section of people than might otherwise be accessible, but they can also experience first-hand what it means to teach and learn in the local context. Teaching can also be utilized as a form of local development as anthropologists create courses, teaching programs, or research departments, often forming long-term educational partnerships. Such projects simultaneously change the anthropologist and anthropology as well as field site communities, while creating new knowledge locally and transnationally. What are the ethical implications of becoming involved in education in field research settings? What is the role of education as an ethnographic research tool, and how does it enhance or challenge the relationship between the anthropologist, students, and communities in the field? This workshop aims to address these questions and to begin a dialogue on how to ethically manage educational endeavours in field research settings. Thematic questions to be addressed by the workshop include: • In what ways is teaching also a form of learning for anthropologists? What is the ethnographic significance of teaching as learning in the field? • What is the meaning and impact of teaching in the field on anthropologists, anthropology, and local people? • How could ethnographic research be enhanced by teaching in the field and what are the challenges? • How does teaching in the field change the field site and its relationship to the anthropologist? What are the critical ethical implications? This workshop aims to explore different forms and meanings of teaching in the field. Our focus will be on the ethical implications that teaching has for engagement with the local people and the ways these educational relationships shape the ethnographic enterprise. While Education Research and Anthropology have evolved as separate disciplines within academia, we would like to explore possibilities for their theoretical and methodological convergence, particularly with regards to enhancing the potential of teaching in the field both as a research method and as a vehicle for local development. Panel sessions during the workshop will include: • Teaching as an ethnographic research method • Teaching anthropology to local community members and capacity building • Teaching ethnographic research methods to foreign students in the field The purpose of the workshop is to focus on ethnographic methodologies and challenges that have occurred when teaching in the field, and researchers from all relevant disciplines are encouraged to participate. Please email the workshop registration form to Ann Lewis at [log in to unmask] by *September 15th, 2011*. Participants will be notified regarding the status of their submission and the final program of the workshop on October 15, 2011. Selected papers will be submitted as a special journal issue to Teaching Anthropology. Any further questions may be addressed to the workshop organizers: Ann Lewis at [log in to unmask] or Rachel Hall-Clifford at [log in to unmask] ************************************************************* * Anthropology-Matters Mailing List * * To join this list or to look at the archived previous * * messages visit: * * http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/Anthropology-Matters.HTML * * If you have ALREADY subscribed: to send a message to all * * those currently subscribed to the list,just send mail to: * * [log in to unmask] * * * * Enjoyed the mailing list? 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