Applying Anthropology to General Education: Reshaping Colleges and Universities for the 21st Century

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The current higher education policy and practice landscape is simultane-ously marked by uncertainty and hope, and nowhere are these tensions more present than in discussions and actions around general education. This volume uses an anthropological approach to contemplate ways of re-imagining general education for the 21st century and how faculty, teach-ers, administrators, and others can transform the educational endeavor to be holistic, comprehensive, and aligned with the needs of people and the planet in the decades to come. Included are analyses of general education concepts such as diversity, case studies of general education and con-necting curricula, opportunities for faculty development, unique general education student populations, assessment strategies, and philosophical/ pedagogical challenges. Contributors make the case that far from receding from a central role in higher education, there is a need to strengthen general education curricula as key to the educational needs of students, for the skills and competencies they require in the workplace and for civic engagement. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Table of Contents List of contributors Introduction 1 Racial Sociocultural Awareness through Conceptualizing Arrivantcy in the Classroom 2 Teaching General Education: Anthropology for Undergraduate Students and Future Publics 3 Critical Pedagogies of Hope: Teaching an “Anthropological Imagination” in an Era of Unfolding Crises 4 So You Want to Teach About Race and Inequity: Toward Anti-Racist Anthropology in General Education 5 Reshaping General Education as the Practice of Freedom 6 From Freire to Foucault: Designing a Critical Prison Pedagogy 7 Anti-Racism, Inclusion, and the Role of Anthropology in Institutional Culture Change in General Education Curricula 8 The Diversity Slot: The Case for Letting Anthropology Burn in Community Colleges 9 Applying Anthropology in the Classroom: Communities of Practice and Activity-Based Learning in a General Education Course for First-Year Students 10 Multimodal Ethnography as Pedagogy: Developing Interculturality in General Education 11 Cultivating Change in the Curriculum through International Faculty Development 12 Laying the Groundwork for General Education: Insights from an Independent Secondary School Index