Keeping Educational Anthropology Relevant: Asking Good Questions Rather Than Trivial Ones.

Hess, G. Alfred, Jr.

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ERIC Number: EJ598476

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1999

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Keeping Educational Anthropology Relevant: Asking Good Questions Rather Than Trivial Ones.

Hess, G. Alfred, Jr.

Anthropology & Education Quarterly, v30 n4 p404-12 Dec 1999

Explores the relevance of anthropology today, stressing that the current relevance of anthropology has to do with current work, building on the previously relevant work of earlier anthropologists. Asking the right questions, good questions, means considering issues that are pursued for decades, rather than focusing on the pursuit of grants. (SLD)

Descriptors: Educational Anthropology, Higher Education, Inquiry, Research Design, Scholarship

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive; Speeches/Meeting Papers

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Language: English

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Note: Council on Anthropology and Education 1998 Presidential Address.