Part One: Applying Anthropology in Education: Addressing Equity from K-College (NAPA)

Applying Anthropology in Education: Addressing Equity from K-College (NAPA) 

 

CHAIRS: PUCCIA, Ellen (Beta Rsch Assoc Inc) and CAMPBELL-MONTALVO, Rebecca (UConn) CAMPBELL-MONTALVO, Rebecca (UConn) Ethnography in the Florida Heartland: Applications for Educators to Improve Equity for Minoritized Groups 

 

PUCCIA, Ellen (Beta Rsch Assoc Inc), SMITH, Chrystal A.S., CAMPBELL-MONTALVO, Rebecca, and KERSAINT, Gladis (UConn) How Universities Can Support Women and Underrepresented Minority Engineering Students: Applications of Interviews with Undergraduates 

 

PFISTER, Anne (USF) Photovoice in the Undergraduate Classroom 

 

BARTLE, Shannon (USF) Changing Scales and Scope in World History: Applied Anthropology and Instructional Design for the Changing AP World History Curriculum 

 

WIEDMAN, Dennis (FIU) Directing Organizational Culture Change of a Public University for Inclusion of Indigenous Peoples: The FIU Global Indigenous Forum

 

Applying Anthropology in Education: Addressing Equity from K-College. 

 

Students face challenges as they navigate through the U.S. educational system. National culture, institutional context, and local discourses spur inequality and comprise hurdles for students, families, and educators. Anthropologists working in these areas use a variety of research methods to describe factors that affect matriculation of groups. Such studies inform on topics from undergraduates’ persistence in their declared majors to the social and emotional climate children face in elementary school. Applications promise to arm individuals with improved approaches to creating better climates and addressing causes of educational inequality. This panel highlights implications of applied anthropological research in school equity.

 

Session took place in Portland, OR at the 79th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2019.