Developing the Teaching of Social Anthropology in Scottish Schools

This paper lays out some quite successful developments in the teaching of social anthropology in Scottish secondary schools and further education colleges. It is written in a personal style because much of the initial work was carried out by the author who describes the path she navigated and introduces the people who helped her along the way. The project was started with advice from members of Scottish university anthropology departments and proceeded through a complicated series of encounters with the bureaucracy of the Scottish Qualifications Authority, which has gradually introduced various possibilities for study. Some detail is provided about each of these developments, all of which took time to grow due to a general lack of knowledge about the subject in Scotland. We are now working on developing complete awards, described at the end of the paper. The project has received continual support from the Scottish Qualifications Authority, and all the Scottish universities with Anthropology departments, including, most recently, a generous grant from the University of Edinburgh to help the Royal Anthropological Institute’s initiative to offer a course to train new teachers working within the Scottish system

Applied anthropology · Bureaucracy · Ethnography · Style (visual arts · Subject (documents · Work (physics · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture · Oral History, Memory, Narrative Analysis