January 8, 2015

Ethnography Labs: Unpacking Ethnographic Narrative

This article is part of the series: Experiments with pedagogy

My first experience teaching an ethnographic text to a classroom full of students was rocky. My attempts to draw them out into making connections between the ethnographic materials and our big course questions were met with silence. I, panicked, asked ever more concrete questions about the text, while the silence slowly turned stony until a chatty student desperately regurgitated some …

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November 7, 2014

Intimate, Familiar and Strange, or Why I Don’t Teach a Class on Sleep

By Matthew Wolf-Meyer

This article is part of the series: Experiments with pedagogy

One of the insights into teaching provided to me by Donald Morse, one of my undergraduate professors, was to never teach the same class twice. But, simultaneously, not to overburden oneself by developing a new course every year. His model, which I’ve entirely stolen, was to teach one-third texts he knew intimately, one-third texts he was familiar with, and …

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July 2, 2014

Experiments with pedagogy: Call for contributions

By Hanna Kienzler

As teachers, we are increasingly called upon to promote student-centered learning and to build stronger links between teaching and disciplinary research in order to foster a culture that allows students “to take a research-based approach to their lifelong educational development” (Sproken-Smith & Walker, 2010). Scholars, academic administrators and institutions increasingly promote “inquiry-based learning”, a term referring to pedagogical …

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Ethnography Labs: Unpacking Ethnographic Narrative

Intimate, Familiar and Strange, or Why I Don’t Teach a Class on Sleep

Experiments with pedagogy: Call for contributions