This article aims to share a private worry with a larger audience: the erosion of teaching qualitative social research in higher education. Our worry originates in our own experience as social scientists working and teaching at Dutch universities
In Learning and Teaching
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2020
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 42–66 (25 total)
Playing with Teaching Techniques
Gamelan as a Learning Tool Amongst Children with Learning Impairments in Northern Ireland
Jonathan McIntosh
This article examines gamelan as a community musical tool in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom. In particular, the article demonstrates how traditional pedagogic practices are changed in order to suit the needs of those who learn gamelan. A gamelan is an orchestra that includes metallophones (large glockenspiel-like instruments), gongs and drums. Originating from Southeast Asia, particularly from the Indonesian islands of Java and Bali, gamelan ensembles have long been used in the teaching of ethnomusicology in academic institutions and for purposes of applied ethnomusicology, as a musical tool, in the wider community. In these contexts, a gamelan instructor acts as a 'mediator' (Naughton 1996: 16) in the transmission of gamelan knowledge; mediating not only between the music and the learners, but also between the role of gamelan in its original sociocultural context and its newly adopted milieu. Drawing upon my experiences as a gamelan instructor, in particular, teaching children with visual and hearing impairments, I demonstrate how traditional teaching techniques are adapted to facilitate the learning of gamelan in the Northern Irish context.
In Anthropology in Action
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2005
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 12–27 (16 total)
Redefining Censorship
Lessons Learned from Teaching The Merchant of Venice in Israel
Esther B. Schupak
student and the study of revered canonical works. However, after completing a research project that entailed teaching the play to two groups of Israeli students, I am forced to concede that those who oppose teaching it may have a cogent argument, and this
In European Judaism
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2018
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 134–142 (9 total)
Field Notes and Reading Notes
Studying with Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett in the 1990s
Nélia Dias
-taking practice in general play such a central role in Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett's teaching? One possible answer might be related to the reframing of the field of performance studies, a task that Kirshenblatt-Gimblett undertook as the chair of the Department
Fieldwork Assignments in the Anthropology of Religion
A Practical Guide
Andrew Buckser
This article discusses structural, logistical, and administrative issues associated with the use of participant observation assignments in teaching the anthropology of religion. Fieldwork presents extraordinary opportunities for teaching students about the nature of cultural difference, but it also poses pedagogical challenges that require careful planning and supervision. The article reviews problems including the scope and nature of the observation, student preparation and guidance, connecting with fieldsites, presentation formats, issues of ethics and confidentiality, and university administrative considerations.
In Religion and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2010
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 177–184 (8 total)
The Role of Universities in the Protection of Refugees and Other Migrants
A View from Brazil and Latin America
Liliana L. Jubilut
be leading actors in different ways: for instance, universities can produce knowledge, and have a wide influence, being able to impact (directly) their students through teaching and related activities, as well as the communities in which they are
Experiencing, Using, and Teaching History
Two History Teachers’ Relations to History and Educational Media
Robert Thorp
, syllabi, and textbook narratives; planning and carrying out the teaching of history; and evaluating the historical knowledge and competence of millions of history pupils across the world. In a teaching situation, teachers also make use of educational media
In Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2017
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 129–146 (18 total)
Community and Creativity in the Classroom
An Experiment in the Use of the Guest Interview, Focus Group Interviews and Learning Journals in the Teaching and Learning of the Anthropology of Modern Dance
Jonathan Skinner and Kirk Simpson
This article assesses the experimental teaching and learning of an anthropology module on 'modern dance'. It reviews the teaching and learning of the modern dances (lecture, observation, embodied practice, guest interview), paying attention to the triangulation of investigation methods (learning journal, examination, self-esteem survey, focus group interview). Our findings suggest that—in keeping with contemporary participatory educational approaches—students prefer guest interviews and 'performances of understanding' for teaching and learning, and that focus groups and learning journals were the preferred research methods for illuminating the students' teaching and learning experience.
In Anthropology in Action
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2005
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 28–43 (16 total)
Doing Memory
Teaching as a Discursive Node
Alexandra Binnenkade
This article outlines the “discursive node” as an approach to a cultural analysis of how memory is being done in history classrooms. Teaching is a practice embodied in the interactions between teachers and their audiences, between texts, imagery and institutional formations, and between material and immaterial participants in an activity that entails not only knowledge but also emotions, experience and values (Henry Giroux). Discursive nodes are useful metaphors that enable research of a phenomenon that is ontologically and empirically fluxional, heterogeneous, unstable, situative and fuzzy—memory.
In Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2015
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 29–43 (15 total)
Teaching internationalisation?
Surveying the lack of pedagogical and theoretical diversity in American International Relations
Christopher R. Cook
field of Education this discussion has only just begun in political science and international relations (IR) specifically. For Education Studies internationalising the classroom has often meant teaching students to confront and understand the diversity
In Learning and Teaching
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2016
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 62–82 (21 total)