|
Residential Anthropology Learning and Teaching Material(ities)
Teaching, learning and strategies for enhancing the delivery of teaching materials: positioning, talking, building dialogue with students
I taught many courses over the years, these ones below are from the period 2000 to 2008 which I recently concluded. I taught an average of 18 residential modules, between four to six modules per term. I co-taught an additional four modules and offered lectures to general modules like Study Skills, Advanced Issues and Theory Group. I created and convened 11 of these over six years. My classes were between 12 to 30 students, with some exception of larger classes. In the evening and weekend I did e-learning teaching and tutoring.
I spent many summers and nearly any scarce spare hour preparing teaching materials, or what I call teaching materialities here. These include many kinds of 'materials', from lectures, to handouts, curriculum strategies, photocopies, overheads, PowerPoints, student notes, websites, portfolios, reading packs, photograps, emails, notes, books, field notes, articles, materials gathered during fieldwork.
These below were materials for me and for students to use. In class I talk through all sorts of materials, lecture notes, online sites, quotes, student's notes. I position myself within larger anthropological debates using as many authors and sources as possible. I rarely read lectures; rather I talk through the lecture and with the students.
So I guess another teacher may do a very different use of these materials here. Ultimately, in a pedagogic process, it is not the lecturer's notes that matter most but the way in which the students use these in their learning process. Thus, what is distinctive of some of these materials, and where I put most work with, was in building up personal, shared, learned materials into a framework that would be conducive to helping students improve their learning process.
My overall aim in the makign of these courses was to build up and design a learning context that would allow students and teacher come togehter in the production of anthropological knowlege.
All these materialities here were approved, mediated internally, shared and assessed by external examiners. I only show my personal archive of these.
| Level |
Credits |
Module Name |
|
Details |
Reflections/teaching |
| 1 & 2 |
40 |
Visual Anthropology / Visualising Ethnography |
|
BA |
Shared & Developed T |
| 2 & 3 |
30 |
Economic Anthropology |
|
BA |
Created T |
| 1 |
20 |
Reading and Writing Anthropology |
|
BA |
Created T |
| 1 |
10 |
Understanding Culture and Religion in Japan |
|
BA |
Created T |
| 1 |
10 |
Exploring Culture |
|
BA |
Created T |
| 1 |
20 |
Exploring Religions and Cultures |
|
BA |
Created & Co-taught |
| 2&3 |
20 |
Japanese Ethnography |
|
BA |
Created T |
| 3 |
20 |
Gender and Sexuality |
|
BA |
Shared & Developed T |
|
30 |
Fieldwork, Ethics and Methods |
|
BA |
Created T |
| 1 |
5 |
Study Skills |
|
Foundt |
Shared Contribution T |
| 2 & 3 |
5 |
Advanced Issues in Anthropology |
|
BA |
Shared Co-taught |
| 4 |
20 |
Anthropology Theory Group |
|
BA |
Shared Contribution |
| 3 |
20 |
Political Anthropology |
|
BA |
Shared & Co-taught |
|
40 |
Research Methods I and II |
|
MA |
Created T |
| 4 |
20 |
Key Debates in Anthropological Theory |
|
MA |
Shared & Created T |
| 3 |
20 |
Body and Society: bodies and cultures |
|
BA |
Created not taught |
| 2 & 3 |
10 |
Contemporary Japan: film, fashion and identity |
|
BA |
Created T |
| 3 |
20 |
Project design |
|
BA |
Created T |
| Admin |
|
Handouts and Handbooks |
|
|
|
| Admin |
|
Curriculum Strategies |
|
|
|
| Admin |
|
Additional Course Materials
|
|
|
|
| 4 |
|
Contemporary Europe: Citizenship, Identity and Democracy |
|
MA |
Slides Tutorial
Lecture Slides |
| 1&2 |
|
Introduction to Sociology
|
|
BA |
Course Handout |
| 1&2 |
|
Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Health and Well-being
|
|
BA |
Lecture 1 Handout
Course Description
|
| 1 |
|
Ethnography for Cross-Cultural Studies: an Introduction (pdf)
|
|
BA |
PowerPoint presentation |
|
|
FiLO Network Poster |
|
Network |
Poster |
How did you do them?
I always get asked about....read more
***************************************************************************** |
The Project list is an archive of the residential teaching materials I used between 2000-2008
Most of the modules and courses I taught were created and delivered by me. There are, however, some courses that I co-taught with other members of staff, lecturers, tutors, visiting lecturers. On these cases I have tried to be careful in locating each element of authorship as carefully as possible.
Some of these teaching 'materialities' were composed using borrowed material (explicitly borrowed and consented within departmental practice) and using examples of good practice already found amongst my colleagues and online. The use of these materialities was sometimes eclectic but it was always strategically used within a pedagogic intention and developed as a larger teaching programme that served the purpose of teaching the anthropology curriculum.
As with all the course and teaching materials, the delivery, the 'actual' teaching is not replicated in the notes here.
For queries, an email.
|