Gray, Patty and Maguire, Mark and Strong, Thomas (2012) Reflexive Large-Group Evaluation for Anthropology. Teaching Fellowships 2011 – 2012 Project Reports and Outcomes. pp. 10-12.

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Abstract

Traditionally, anthropology has been configured as a craft, passed down from teacher to students. Yet at NUI Maynooth, anthropology is delivered to very large and diverse classes. What are the implications of this for the learning the principles of anthropology? This project sought answers to this question by bringing together staff in the Department of Anthropology as a team that also included a graduate student researcher. We set out with the ambition of using the tools of anthropology itself to investigate the teaching and learning of anthropological principles. But we were also concerned to understand the ways in which students understood ‘evaluations’, the extant systems of module evaluation of the Department, and possible ways to introduce improved methods of two-way evaluation.

Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	Reflexive; Large-Group; Evaluation; Anthropology; Centre for Teaching and Learning;
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Anthropology
Item ID:	4207
Depositing User:	Mark Maguire
Date Deposited:	19 Feb 2013 16:43
Journal or Publication Title:	Teaching Fellowships 2011 – 2012 Project Reports and Outcomes
Publisher:	NUI Maynooth Centre for Teaching and Learning
Refereed:	No
URI:	http://ctl.nuim.ie/ http://anthropology.nuim.ie/
Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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