Teaching Anthropology Speculatively

Bibliographic Data

ID3819875
AuthorsAndrea Gaspar (0000-0002-2040-3742, University of Coimbra, corresponding author)
Year2017
Issue7, No 2
Pages75-90
Publication date2017-11-21
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueCadernos de arte e antropologia (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2238-0361 • E-ISSN: 2238-0361
PublisherOpenEdition (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.4000/cadernosaa.1687
OpenAlexW2894991933
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited19

This article is an exploration into what a speculative pedagogy can be. Describing a series of pedagogic experiments at the University of Coimbra with undergraduate students in anthropology who engaged in playful empirical exercises based on a "what if" and ludic ways of learning (and teaching), I argue that these exercises have an eventful, speculative character in the sense that they are not meant to instruct or provide theoretical contents about what ethnography or anthropology is; neither are they meant to lead students in a process of conceptual and empirical discovery that is known in advance. Rather, they were designed to produce unpredictable effects and surprise both for those learning and those teaching

Character (mathematics · Empirical research · Epistemology · Ethnography · Mathematics education · Pedagogy · Sociology · Surprise · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy · Philosophy · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Psychology

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