Tag Archives: pedagogy

More thoughts on Wellesley College and online learning

Posted on October 26, 2012 by Adam Van Arsdale

Next week I will be part of a roundtable discussion focusing on Wellesley’s consideration of moving into the world of online education. I previously had an online discussion with Dr. Holly Dunsworth, of the University of Rhode Island, on the … Continue reading →

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Between Two Professors: Pros and cons to online undergraduate education

Posted on September 28, 2012 by Adam Van Arsdale

Note: This is a conversation I had with Holly Dunsworth, a biological anthropologist at the University of Rhode Island. This conversation is cross-posted at the blog she co-authors, The Mermaid’s Tale. Do you like the idea of online education? Adam: … Continue reading →

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Anthropological training and pedagogy

Posted on July 23, 2012 by Adam Van Arsdale

There were a number of articles out a few weeks ago highlighting the difficulty in finding jobs for trained PhDs. This is a bit of an old story, already, but the new spin on this round of stories was that … Continue reading →

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In defense of the treatment of race, in part, on biological/scientific grounds

Posted on June 1, 2012 by Adam Van Arsdale

One of the first issues I want to unpack from my just completed seminar on race is the treatment of race, in part, as a topic of biological and scientific relevance. The history of scientific racism is the history of … Continue reading →

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Teaching in new ways

Posted on May 29, 2012 by Adam Van Arsdale

Holly Dunsworth goes through an assessment of her curricular changes in an Introduction to Biological Anthropology course and her students’ learning experience: Based on only two semesters of data, it’s hard to link my curricular changes to the improvement between … Continue reading →

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The teaching sweetspot

Posted on May 11, 2012 by Adam Van Arsdale

I spent most of my day yesterday learning from colleagues about the special challenges and opportunities associated with teaching first-year college students in preparation for teaching a first-year seminar course next Fall titled, “The Anthropology of Food.” I have actually … Continue reading →

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