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Anthropologia Incognita: Teaching and Learning Anthropology in Europe Today

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2024

Thomas K. Schippers
Thomas K. Schippers*
Affiliation:
University of Nice
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During the last thirty years both the social sciences and humanities in many countries have experienced a huge increase in student numbers, often directly related to national policies aimed at enlarging access to higher education for the majority of a generation. Although this evolution seems globally positive, it has also caused some specific problems within those disciplines, such as anthropology, which until recently led only to academic careers. In most European countries anthropological teaching has been predominantly research-oriented, that is rather than ‘knowledge-oriented’ like disciplines taught in secondary education. In this paper, after having recalled some aspects of the teaching of anthropology since the 1950s, I would like to propose certain arguments for a discussion about the aims and means of teaching social sciences in general and anthropology in particular in the coming decades. Given the actual ‘dis-ease’ about this topic, this debate seems to becoming more and more inevitable.

Type
Research Article
Information
Diogenes , Volume 47 , Issue 188 , December 1999 , pp. 64 - 72
Copyright
Copyright © ICPHS 1999

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