This article considers what UK-based higher education researchers Jan Meyer and Ray Land describe as “threshold concepts,” asking how these concepts might apply to the field of social/cultural anthropology. This is explored in relation to the practical pedagogical project of constructing a curated online resource kit to support students who are “bridging” into social anthropology from other disciplines. In this article, we review the literature on threshold concepts in social anthropology as well as some adjacent writings on “key,” “core,” or “signature” anthropological concepts. The potential value of boundary work and troubled/troubling knowledge as a generative space emerge as useful points of consideration. We then present findings from...
In the fifty years which has elapsed since the publication of the works by Malinowski (1922) and Rad...
Indigenous Studies can be both exciting and challenging for teachers and students. This article will...
Inaugural lecture delivered at Rhodes University CollegeRhodes University Libraries (Digitisation
This article considers what UK-based higher education researchers Jan Meyer and Ray Land describe as...
There are Māori studies programmes in all eight New Zealand universities and thousands of Māori stud...
Entwistle (2003) identified one of the outputs of the UK ETL research project as developing more pre...
The chapter, "Edging towards understanding: Illuminating student experiences of liminality in introd...
The concept of knowledge has been used in anthropological analyses referring to something that both ...
hreshold Concepts in Practice brings together fifty researchers from sixteen countries and a wide va...
The paper offers a powerful deconstruction of the idea of the crisis of anthropology, linking it wit...
The concept of knowledge has been used in anthropological analyses referring to something that both ...
Conference presentation delivered at the ISSoTL (International Society for the Scholarship of Teach...
Traditional academic anthropology centers on fieldwork and the production of publications that contr...
Media anthropology is a rapidly developing new field of interdisciplinary studies. With roots going ...
Paper Session 2: How do we teach and how are we taught, in the new normal?Hosted by Teachers College...
In the fifty years which has elapsed since the publication of the works by Malinowski (1922) and Rad...
Indigenous Studies can be both exciting and challenging for teachers and students. This article will...
Inaugural lecture delivered at Rhodes University CollegeRhodes University Libraries (Digitisation
This article considers what UK-based higher education researchers Jan Meyer and Ray Land describe as...
There are Māori studies programmes in all eight New Zealand universities and thousands of Māori stud...
Entwistle (2003) identified one of the outputs of the UK ETL research project as developing more pre...
The chapter, "Edging towards understanding: Illuminating student experiences of liminality in introd...
The concept of knowledge has been used in anthropological analyses referring to something that both ...
hreshold Concepts in Practice brings together fifty researchers from sixteen countries and a wide va...
The paper offers a powerful deconstruction of the idea of the crisis of anthropology, linking it wit...
The concept of knowledge has been used in anthropological analyses referring to something that both ...
Conference presentation delivered at the ISSoTL (International Society for the Scholarship of Teach...
Traditional academic anthropology centers on fieldwork and the production of publications that contr...
Media anthropology is a rapidly developing new field of interdisciplinary studies. With roots going ...
Paper Session 2: How do we teach and how are we taught, in the new normal?Hosted by Teachers College...
In the fifty years which has elapsed since the publication of the works by Malinowski (1922) and Rad...
Indigenous Studies can be both exciting and challenging for teachers and students. This article will...
Inaugural lecture delivered at Rhodes University CollegeRhodes University Libraries (Digitisation