Panel: Flipping the conference space: Students' Perspective on learning anthropology (EASA TAN panel)

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Short Abstract This panel features students’ presentations of what to them constitute meaningful teaching and learning experiences of anthropology. The panel is conceived as a space where students can guide teachers, and teaching anthropology can become a more collaborative process. Long Abstract Over the last few decades, exploration of the situated nature of knowledge and reflection on positionality has led to ethnographic knowledge products becoming more (self)-reflective, dialogical, collaborative, and polyvocal. Teaching methods have emerged that no longer understand the learning of socio-anthropological specifics as passive conglomerates of knowledge to be received solely through “instruction” and conveyed from a position of authority. Spaces can be created where it is ideally possible to recognize factors of disadvantage in the academic context and to address and reflect upon structurally unequal relationships among students and in their relations to educators. In this panel we would like to create such a communal reflexive space by inviting students of all levels, with their teachers, to share their experiences of learning anthropology. Your contribution might be a report or discussion of a particular teaching/learning method, projects, or student surveys, for example, and may concern one or more of the following questions: • What are teaching models and methods you favour and why? • In which innovative teaching projects and endeavors have you been involved that you think should become more common when it comes to learning anthropology? • Which aspects do you think are missing in current teaching practices? • How do you experience academic spaces like the classroom, the campus, conferences? • What are your learning goals and how do you think your university courses could prepare you more for life outside of the university/academia? We at TAN can assist students in preparing their proposals for presentation.

Speakers from the University of Münster

Strauss, Annika

Institute of Ethnology