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The Book Price Enigma
Books add meaning to our lives. They are avenues of learning, research, escape, empathy, and connection, and this is a wonderful thing to support and nurture. This is why people work in publishing—to help build and shape intellectual and creative endeavor. Most of us aren’t here to make piles of money, but rather to contribute to an industry that is ultimately about ideas and narrative. Add the word “text” in front of “book” and most of this romanticism fades. read more…
- dateMarch 8, 2013
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- posted byAnna
Flipping Anthropology
Next to MOOCs, the most popular term for transforming education in 2012 was the term “flipped classroom.” While no one completely agrees on the specifics, the term generally means that an instructor will “flip instruction” so that face-2-face classroom time is used better to engage the student in an active learning process… read more…
Mandatory Respect Language Exercise
For those teaching linguistic anthropology, we would like to share a short exercise provided to us by John L. Steckley at Humber College. Download the PDF of Dr. Steckley’s exercise on mandatory respect to use with your students. read more…
- dateJanuary 14, 2013
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- posted byAnna
Teaching Anthropological Theory
It‘s that time of year when I have to put together backgrounders on our new 2013 anthropology titles. At the top of my list are the new editions of Erickson and Murphy’s History of Anthropological Theory and Readings for a … read more…
Ethnography that Meets Classroom Needs
As we watch the course orders for the Spring 2013 term starting to come in, it’s clear that Made in Madagascar, our newest ethnography in the Teaching Culture Series, has caught instructors’ imaginations. Course adoptions are happening at every kind … read more…
