Edward J Berger

• The missing study groups: Liminality and communitas in the time of Covid-19

  Open Access•Fredy R Rodríguez‐mejía, E K Briody et al.•ARTICLE•Annals of Anthropological Practice•2024•References: 16

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  We examine the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on teaching and learning in an Engineering School of a large US research university. We focus on the adjustment of instructors as they converted their courses to distance teaching and learning formats (e.g., virtual sessions, online forums) and on bachelor student experiences with those changes. While both instructors and students experienced liminality, the pandemic affected these groups differen…

• Ritual as Work Strategy: A Window into Organizational Culture

  E K Briody, Edward Berger et al.•ARTICLE•Human Organization•2018

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  Learning in cooperation and/or collaboration with others is embedded in many higher education settings. Research on learning communities of various types often focuses on academic performance and pedagogical and curriculum enhancements. Our intent was to explore the cultural aspects of peer-to-peer collaboration. We apply the analytic lens of ritual to understand how engineering majors manage this “betwixt and between” phase of their lives prior …

• Ritual as Work Strategy: A Window into Organizational Culture

  E K Briody, Edward Berger et al.•ARTICLE•Human Organization•2018

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  Learning in cooperation and/or collaboration with others is embedded in many higher education settings. Research on learning communities of various types often focuses on academic performance and pedagogical and curriculum enhancements. Our intent was to explore the cultural aspects of peer-to-peer collaboration. We apply the analytic lens of ritual to understand how engineering majors manage this “betwixt and between” phase of their lives prior …

• The missing study groups: Liminality and communitas in the time of Covid-19

  Open Access•Fredy R Rodríguez‐mejía, E K Briody et al.•ARTICLE•Annals of Anthropological Practice•2024•References: 16

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  We examine the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on teaching and learning in an Engineering School of a large US research university. We focus on the adjustment of instructors as they converted their courses to distance teaching and learning formats (e.g., virtual sessions, online forums) and on bachelor student experiences with those changes. While both instructors and students experienced liminality, the pandemic affected these groups differen…

Sociology (2 works) · 2019-20 coronavirus outbreak (1 works) · Anthropology (1 works) · Biomedical and Engineering Education (1 works) · Communitas (1 works) · Computer Science (1 works) · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 (1 works) · Engineering (1 works) · Engineering Education and Curriculum Development (1 works) · Liminality (1 works)