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CONFERENCE CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
‘Teaching Anthropology Today’
9-10 October 2008
Pusey Hall, Keble College, University of Oxford
Organisers:
Keble College, University of Oxford
Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford
Department of Education, University of Oxford
Welcome Address: David Gellner
Keynote Lecture: Simon Coleman
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?
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
Experienced lecturers in anthropology or related disciplines as well as junior lecturers and graduates with early teaching experiences will discuss the following:
- curriculum design; curriculum reform;
- the future of lectures;
- teaching and learning about fieldwork;
- research supervision;
- tutorials and small group teaching;
- student feedback and the national student survey;
- examining, marking and feedback on learning;
- training anthropologists to teach;
- shaping the discipline through teaching;
- the pedagogical role of the departmental seminar;
- teaching and ‘audit culture’;
- the elephant in the lecture hall: what we have difficulty discussing;
- and other relevant topics.
Participation:
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:
[log in to unmask] Early confirmation of your participationis available from 1th August 2008. Limited funding is available to cover travel expenses.
Registration:
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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