Teaching Tools is dedicated to the intersections between pedagogy, ethnography, and anthropology. The section is a growing resource for instructors, teaching assistants, and students, with everything from discussion guides and in-class activities to critically minded reflections on the practice, politics, and poetics of teaching anthropology, whether inside the academy or in alternative settings.
Pedagogical Soundings: Teaching about Scientific Racism
We are excited to announce a collaboration between Contributing Editors working on the AnthroPod and Teaching Tools sections of the Cultural Anthropology websit... More
Teaching With Digital Technology: Online Classes
In our most recent post in the “Teaching with Digital Technology” series, Venera Khalikova outlined options for enhancing our teaching in face-to-face classroom... More
Teaching Uncertainty: Disrupting Nativism with Anneeth Kaur Hundle
In March 2017, I interviewed Anneeth Kaur Hundle, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Merced, on her two-part article entitled ... More
Teaching with Hope: Anand Pandian on Cultivating Possibility in the Classroom
“Why are we so interested in other ways of being human, if not to put those into practice as ways of pluralizing both what we can be and what the world we inhab... More
Teaching with Digital Technology: In-Class Applications
Last month, the Teaching Tools section kicked off a series of posts exploring how digital technologies can be used in teaching, particularly in anthropology cou... More
Teaching with Digital Technology: An Introduction
As an instructor, you may have a strict policy on the use of laptops, tablets, and mobile phones in class. Perhaps you ask students to keep their digital device... More
Teaching Race: On Stereotypes and Privilege
I am a white woman, an identity I share with the majority of women voters who elected President Donald Trump. I am also middle-class, another aspect of my privi... More
Teaching Uncertainty: An Introduction
In launching a new Teaching Tools series, I wanted to begin by thinking with the generativity of uncertainty, with how uncertainty works politically and sociall... More
Teaching with Hope: An Introduction
The language of hope from the 2008 U.S. presidential election seems so distant from the doomsday rhetoric of the election we’ve just experienced. I, like many o... More
Reflecting on the Scholar-in-Residence Program: An Interview with Angela Jenks
Over the past six months, the Teaching Tools section of the Cultural Anthropology website has been proud to host Angela Jenks as our inaugural Scholar-in-Reside... More