Our school serves all the high school students in our area, as well as those who choose to come from outside the district because of our high standards for learning. As a charter school, we do a lot of things right in terms of rigorous and challenging teaching standards, but we teach students who come from limited backgrounds, many of whom turn to the school for all of their resources. We are a diverse school, but students are often uninformed about cultures around the world and how those cultures are impacting our world we share.
My Project
In anthropology, reading the work of anthropologists (an ethnography) helps students see what types of topics anthropologists research, the process in which they research, and the types of questions they ask. It also allows us as a class to evaluate the methods of anthropologists so that students can apply what they learned about anthropology to the actual work done by people in the field.
This ethnography will help my students better understand how anthropologists study different types of people within our own culture.
This ethnography discusses people who live in the Everglades and the role of opposing interests in the preservation and/or development of the Everglades. The anthropologist worked with hunters for a decade in order to develop a true understanding of Everglades culture, the wilderness and the issues the Everglades is facing.
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