Waiting for Teaching Cultures. Pedagogical perspectives and teaching practices for an anthropology as experience

Abstract

Anthropologists, in the face of a marked reflexivity regarding research methodology and the forms of restitution of their work, have rarely questioned themselves about the pedagogical perspectives and teaching strategies that should connote the academic teaching of the discipline. This article, after reconstructing a genealogy of the main contributions in the United States and Europe that have tried to outline theories and praticies for the teaching of anthropology, presents an example of a teaching experiment conducted by the author through the strategy of "field-trips" as part of an anthropology of migration workshop. The pedagogical approach underlying such a case study is then discussed, connecting Victor Turner's conception of "anthropology as experience" to John Dewey's thought and Piero Bartolini's phenomenological pedagogy.