Description

CULTURAL STUDIES

• Of human lifeways: anthropology in its contexts
• Of human lifecourses: family, childhood, youth, parenting and aging
• Of human origins: paleontology, primate evolution, physical anthropology
• Ethnographic methods
• Social meanings: language, linguistics, discourse, text
• Cultural studies as a constitutive field
• Social science stances: modernism and postmodernism; structuralism and poststructuralism
• Where humanities and social sciences meet
• Social structure and human culture: the sociological and the anthropological
• Interdisciplinary perspectives on human differences
• Identities in social science: generational, gender, sexuality, ethnic, diasporic
• Perspectives on, and voices of, difference: multiculturalism and feminism
• Religion and the human sciences
• Health, wellbeing and culture

EDUCATIONAL STUDIES

• Education as a social science
• The learning sciences as an interdisciplinary endeavor
• Action research: the logistics and ethics of interventionary social science
• Teaching and learning the social studies
• History teaching and learning
• Economics teaching and learning
• Geography teaching and learning
• Technology in learning and learning about technology