Abstract
Education presents opportunities to learn about oneself as well as how we navigate society and our cultures together. So, education also necessarily encourages an expanded sense of self as well as an expanded understanding of a discipline. In this chapter, Petillo reflects on self-growth and nuanced understandings of how race informs relationships and meaning for both instructor and students in anthropologically based general education courses. Doing so, she considers how such courses meet goals to develop critical skills, such as unbiased and/or self-aware analysis, perseverance in the face of academic/disciplinary uncertainty, and creative problem-solving, when the classroom experience incorporates the surrounding personal social and cultural landscapes.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Title of host publication | Applying Anthropology to General Education |
| Subtitle of host publication | Reshaping Colleges and Universities for the 21st Century |
| Publisher | Taylor and Francis |
| Pages | 10-15 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781000548037 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780367642143 |
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| State | Published - Jan 1 2022 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Social Sciences