How Studying Anthropology Changes Students

Student research fellows at three universities (Illinois State University, St. Mary's College of Maryland, and Wheaton College) conducted ethnographic research among peers in anthropology programs to better understand students' experiences in the major and their career goals. In this article, we highlight student narratives of personal and intellectual growth. We found that current majors had more to say about how they had been transformed by anthropology than about the specific anthropological skills relevant to future careers. We posit that students' personal growth, including greater empathy and open-mindedness, and intellectual growth, including cross-cultural understanding and the ability to think critically, developed through students' integration into departmental communities of practice

Cultural knowledge · Empathy · Ethnography · Narrative · Pedagogy · Personal development · Sociology · Study abroad · Anthropology · Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture · Innovative Teaching Methodologies in Social Sciences · Psychology · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics · Social Psychology

• The Forest of Symbols

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• Emerging adulthood

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• Learning Through Doing

  Open Access•A D Timmer, Andria Timmer•NAPA Bulletin•2004

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• Introduction

  Open Access•Madelyn Iris•NAPA Bulletin•2004

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• Mentorship and the Field School Experience

  Open Access•Tim Wallace•NAPA Bulletin•2004

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• Situated Learning

  Open Access•Jean Lave, Etienne Wenger•Situated Learning•1991

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