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21A.150 Teaching and Learning: Cross-Cultural Perspectives | Anthropology

This course explores the diverse ways that people teach and learn—in different countries, in different disciplines, and in different subcultures. We will discuss how theories of learning can be applied to a variety of hands-on, in-class learning activities. We compare schooling to other forms of knowledge transmission from initiation and apprenticeship to recent innovations in online education such as MOOCs. Students will employ a range of qualitative methods in conducting original research on topics of their choice.

Keywords:: Ethnography, observation, Teaching and Education, online education, ritual, cognition, rites of passage, Social Anthropology, culture, subcultures, Curriculum and Teaching, Educational Technology, social learning, schooling, interviewing, language, learning, Anthropology, teaching, education, personhood, Cultural Anthropology, improvisation, perception, cross-cultural perspectives, creativity, initiation, apprenticeship, identity, Sociology, discourse analysis, imitation, Language, Linguistics, socialization, Communication, MOOCs, ethnography

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Social Sciences / Anthropology

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Material Type:: Online Course
Date Added to MERLOT:: May 12, 2016
Date Modified in MERLOT:: May 12, 2016
Author:: Jones, Graham
Submitter:: Barbra Bied Sperling

Primary Audience:: College General Ed, College Lower Division, College Upper Division
Technical Format:: Website
Mobile Compatibility:: Not specified at this time
Language:: English
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Creative Commons:: This work is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States