LibGuides: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Higher Education: Social Sciences

Social Science - Articles

Diversity, Difference, and Safety: Adapting Service-Learning for Diverse Students
- https://escholarship.org/uc/item/77f8x8fr
- As American universities become more diverse, it is necessary to consider if existing pedagogies remain relevant and meaningful for all students. This paper examines service-learning, a community engagement pedagogy originally developed for white, middle-class students, by exploring the experiences of residential undergraduate students of color attending a small liberal arts college in rural Virginia. Rather than rejecting service-learning, I suggest reimagining some service-learning practices – particularly the definition of service, the values of reciprocity and collaboration, and preparation for service – in order to meet the needs and experiences of an increasingly diverse population of college students.
Nontraditional Students: Understanding and Meeting their Needs in the Anthropology Classroom
- https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8rd532dt
- In light of the fact that nontraditional students (those age 25 years or older) outnumber traditional students on many US college campuses, it is important to understand their needs and experiences in higher education. A key characteristic distinguishing nontraditional students from traditional-aged college students is the high likelihood that they are juggling multiple competing demands and stressors, including parenthood, work, marriage, and financial responsibility. The findings presented here are part of a larger study that included in-depth interviews with 25 nontraditional undergraduate students at New Mexico Highlands University (NMHU or Highlands). This article highlights the narratives of five of these nontraditional students to illustrate the range of experiences that emerged across the sample. The authors reflect on how learning these narratives has influenced their personal approaches to teaching and engaging with nontraditional students and provide strategies for supporting nontraditional students in the anthropology classroom.
17 Things I have learned teaching Cultural Diversity and Anthropology
- SEPTEMBER 15, 2019 / MICHAELKILMAN
- https://loridianslaboratory.com/2019/09/15/17-things-i-have-learned-teaching-cultural-diversity-and-anthropology/

Transforming History by Mary Jo Festle
ISBN: 9780299326807

Publication Date: 2020-04-14

Teaching history well is not just a matter of knowing history--it is a set of skills that can be developed and honed through practice. In this theoretically informed but eminently practical volume, Mary Jo Festle examines the recent explosion of research on the teaching and learning of history. Illuminated by her own work, Festle applies the concept of "backward design" as an organizing framework to the history classroom. She provides concrete strategies for setting up an environment that is inclusive and welcoming but still challenging and engaging. Instructors will improve their own conceptual understandings of teaching and learning issues, as well as receive guidance on designing courses and implementing pedagogies consistent with what research tells us about how students learn. The book offers practical illustrations of assignments, goals, questions, grading rubrics, unit plans, and formats for peer observation that are adaptable for courses on any subject and of any size. Transforming History is a critical guide for higher and secondary education faculty--neophytes and longtime professionals alike--working to improve student learning.

Teaching Materials

Social Sciences Division

Social Science - Professional Development

On the Future of Anthropology in Schools of Education -- Where we are: Struggles and challenges
Teachers College, Columbia University
the late 1960s, anthropologists had started working on an agenda of research and advocacy that addressed many of the concerns of our professional audiences about human development and cognition, classrooms, school organization, etc., both in the United States and abroad. By the 1970s, this research blossomed across the country and the Council on Anthropology and Education became one of the larger sub-associations within the American Anthropological Association. In many schools of education, methods inspired by ethnography and qualitative sociology became the dominant mode of research. We must consider how the field evolved during the following decades, both in relation to its audiences in professional and policy circles, and in relation to major developments in the discipline itself.
Anthropological Fieldwork Online
Anthropologists Professional Association: Labor Market Working Group

"Acknowledging, confronting, and transforming extra‐curricular spaces in geography." (2020, article)
"Influenced by Shilliam's concept of "exclusionary architecture," and literature that critically examines the whiteness of the geography curriculum, this paper acknowledges and confronts two potentially exclusionary extra‐curricular spaces, namely open days/recruitment and departmental geography societies. Through examining these spaces, I critically reflect on what inclusion currently means for staff and students of colour in British geography, and tentatively propose some routes towards "undoing exclusion" by transforming current practices."

Social Science - Lesson Planning

Lesson Plan for Teaching Whiteness and Organizations Through Economic Anthropology
Learning Objectives
Identify whiteness in organizations and its relationship to racial, gender, and other systemic inequities.
Explain the relationship between race, gender, organizations, and the economy.
Contextualize whiteness in contemporary and historical Western organizational and economic practices.
Produce an alternative approach to “selling diversity” that can create popular acceptance of diversity and inclusion.
Teaching ‘how to anthropology’ alongside ‘how to university’ in an introductory cultural anthropology class
Anth 101 - 10 lessons

Transforming History by Mary Jo Festle
ISBN: 9780299326807

Publication Date: 2020-04-14

Teaching history well is not just a matter of knowing history--it is a set of skills that can be developed and honed through practice. In this theoretically informed but eminently practical volume, Mary Jo Festle examines the recent explosion of research on the teaching and learning of history. Illuminated by her own work, Festle applies the concept of "backward design" as an organizing framework to the history classroom. She provides concrete strategies for setting up an environment that is inclusive and welcoming but still challenging and engaging. Instructors will improve their own conceptual understandings of teaching and learning issues, as well as receive guidance on designing courses and implementing pedagogies consistent with what research tells us about how students learn. The book offers practical illustrations of assignments, goals, questions, grading rubrics, unit plans, and formats for peer observation that are adaptable for courses on any subject and of any size. Transforming History is a critical guide for higher and secondary education faculty--neophytes and longtime professionals alike--working to improve student learning.

Teaching Materials

Social Science - Possible Purchases

Anthropology: Appreciating Human Diversity
Now in its 19th edition, Anthropology: Appreciating Human Diversity is an introduction to general (four-field) anthropology. It covers the four subfields - biological anthropology, anthropological archaeology, cultural anthropology, and linguistic anthropology, as well as anthropology’s two dimensions: academic and applied anthropology. While presenting anthropology's core, the text also aims to demonstrate anthropology's relevance to the 21st-century world we inhabit. The subtitle of the text reflects its goal of instilling a sense of appreciation: (1) of human diversity, (2) of anthropology as a field, and (3) of how anthropology can build on, and help make sense of, the experience that students bring to the classroom. There is special coverage of the coronavirus pandemic and its impact on cultural behavior as well as updated consideration of race and ethnicity related to demographic shifts, and of gender fluidity.
Strategies in Teaching Anthropology
Unique in focus and content, this book is the first to focus on the "how" of teaching anthropology across all of its sub-fields -- Cultural-Social, Biological, Archaeology, and Linguistics (and their two dimensions: research and applied studies) -- and to provide a wide array of associated learning outcomes and student activities. It is a valuable single-source compendium of strategies and teaching "tricks of the trade" from a group of seasoned teaching anthropologists -- working in a variety of teaching settings -- who share their pedagogical techniques, knowledge, and observations. It is focused on the applied, "how to do it" side of the pedagogical nature of teaching.Contains general tried-and-true teaching techniques for all sub-disciplines; specific tips for teaching Biological Anthropology and Archaeology; and specific tips for teaching Cultural Anthropology. Includes team work strategies; tricks for making comprehensible several of anthropology's "esoteric" topics; strategies for demonstrating anthropological perspectives that contradict everyday experience and establish social categories; techniques that use the familiar to illustrate the novel; four articles that directly teach ethnography; and several on technology-related techniques.

Journals

Teaching Anthropology
- https://teachinganthropology.org/
AnthroSource - https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/
- Teaching Anthropology - Society for Anthropology in Community Colleges
  - https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/19414161
- Anthropologie and Education Quarterly
  - - https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/15481492
- Annals of Anthropological Practice
  - - https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/21539588
- Visual Anthropology Review
  - - https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/15487458
Teaching and Learning Anthropology Journal
- https://escholarship.org/uc/teachinglearninganthro

Articles

Educational Anthropology and Engaged Approaches to Teaching and Learning
- Fredy Rodríguez-Mejía
- https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190854584.013.203
- Published online: 23 February 2021
- https://oxfordre.com/anthropology/display/10.1093/acrefore/9780190854584.001.0001/acrefore-9780190854584-e-203?rskey=CSTG9I&result=7

Transforming History by Mary Jo Festle
ISBN: 9780299326807

Publication Date: 2020-04-14

Teaching history well is not just a matter of knowing history--it is a set of skills that can be developed and honed through practice. In this theoretically informed but eminently practical volume, Mary Jo Festle examines the recent explosion of research on the teaching and learning of history. Illuminated by her own work, Festle applies the concept of "backward design" as an organizing framework to the history classroom. She provides concrete strategies for setting up an environment that is inclusive and welcoming but still challenging and engaging. Instructors will improve their own conceptual understandings of teaching and learning issues, as well as receive guidance on designing courses and implementing pedagogies consistent with what research tells us about how students learn. The book offers practical illustrations of assignments, goals, questions, grading rubrics, unit plans, and formats for peer observation that are adaptable for courses on any subject and of any size. Transforming History is a critical guide for higher and secondary education faculty--neophytes and longtime professionals alike--working to improve student learning.

Teaching Materials

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