Welcome Back to the Teaching Culture Blog!

After a two-year hiatus, we are delighted to announce the relaunching of UTP’s Teaching Culture blog. We are mindful of the incredible challenges and changes that have occurred and/or intensified since our last post: a global pandemic, a renewed social … read more…

  • dateNovember 11, 2021
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  • posted byJohn Barker
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ESPERANZA SPEAKS: The Power of Ethnographic Storytelling

In this contribution, Gloria Rudolf describes the beginnings of her long-term friendship with Esperanza Ruiz and the people of Loma Bonita in Panama. Nineteen visits and half a century later, Esperanza’s life history formed the basis of a compassionate ethnographic … read more…

  • dateJune 2, 2022
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  • posted byJohn Barker
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Teaching Culture through Tourism: Agency, Authenticity, and Colonialism

In this contribution, Karoline Guelke discusses how studies of tourism can help students overcome common misperceptions of other cultures as static and unchanging. During one of my first years of teaching, a student came up to me after a lecture … read more…

  • dateApril 9, 2022
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  • posted byJohn Barker
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“We are not brains on sticks!” Teaching Anthropology with the Senses

In this post, Jess Auerbach talks about motivating students by using the five senses and bringing them “out of their brains and into their bodies.” “We are not brains on sticks,” a group of 11 African Studies students told me … read more…

  • dateFebruary 17, 2022
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  • posted byJohn Barker
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What online learning taught me about (online) teaching

In this post, Andrew Walsh reflects on the promises and pitfalls of innovation in the transition to online teaching. What more can be said about the advantages and drawbacks of online teaching? After almost two years of the uncertainty, shifting … read more…

  • dateJanuary 31, 2022
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Solidarity in Protest: Highlighting Positive Social Change in Urban Costa Rica

Recently published in the Teaching Culture series, Millennial Movements: Positive Social Change in Urban Costa Rica presents case studies of Costa Rican millennial leaders and shows how youth activists in San José draw from global solutions to address the local … read more…

  • dateDecember 16, 2021
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  • posted byCarli Hansen
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