I strongly encourage you to become a part of this network that Irv Cohen
talks about. I believe it would be of tremendous help with our profession as
anthropologists and archaeologists. Please respond directly to Irv.
Chuck Ellenbaum ><>
Prof of Anth & Rel Stud
College of DuPage
425 22nd St.
Glen Ellyn, IL 60137 USA
630/942-2433
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>>>>For many years anthropology has taken a back seat to some of the other
social sciences taught in our secondary schools. Courses are offered in
history, economics, political science, psychology and sociology, but one
must look very hard to find the odd high school at which anthropology
(either physical or culture) is offered, either for a semester or, more
rarely, for a full year. Consequently, secondary school publishers have
been loathe to publish any anthropology teaching materials. They say
there's no market for them, which its true from a financial point of view.
Having the good fortune to teach at one of the few K-12 schools enlightened
enough to offer students (eighth grade) the benefits of studying this
interesting and fascinating subject, and thereby benefiting from the
insights it has to offer into human nature, I found myself without a
textbook when I began teaching anthropology at a private, non-profit school
in the greater Los Angeles area five years ago. After the painful
experience of trying to "cobble" together various kinds of material, mostly
college level, into some kind of coherent program for the first two years,
I decided to write a text book of my own, In Search of the Origins of
Humanness, which will be published this summer. However, while this may
fill one need concerning physical anthropology, it still doesn't address
the main problem which is the relative absence of courses in anthropology
at the precollege level. To help remedy this situation, I have made a
proposal to my school. I have asked them to allow me to use the
soon-to-be-up web page, AnthroLink, on the school's web site, as the
cornerstone of a national network to be dedicated to linking together
college and university instructors of anthropology with selected secondary
schools in their local communities. The goal would be to produce and
disseminate anthropology teaching materials across the K-12 curriculum over
my web page and those of the participating schools who currently have a
webs site or would like to develop one. The network would be used to
exchange teaching materials, discuss relevant current developments
anthropology, tie together students from urban and rural environments, and
create a "mentor" relationship between tertiary institutions with primary
and secondary school teachers that would foster and encourage the
introduction of anthropology--units, modules, courses--into the K-12
curriculum in a nurturing and non-threatening manner.
I need at least a dozen schools to start up the network. Instructors would
have the freedom to write into the grant proposals (federal and private
foundations) requests for whatever they need to participate in the program
(this could take the form of hardware, software, compensation for time,
etc.). I also welcome suggestions about what our specific objectives and
general goals will be. It's not enough just to produce anthropology
teaching materials: We need to be much more specific than that. The topics
need to be relevant to each grade level and, above all, contribute
something of value to our students education. I have my own ideas, but I
would also like to hear from other people, as well.
So far, Chuck Ellenbaum of the College of DuPage (Glen Ellyn, Il); Phil
Stein, Pierce College (Woodland Hills, CA.) and Richard Robbins, SUNY
(Plattsburg, N.Y.) have indicated interest. We need some more participants!
Irv Cohen
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