Changes in scale imply that existing good practice will not perpetuate since personal presentations of experience do not work in the same way in large groups. Instead techniques must be developed to convey the immediacy of experience to individual students however large and heterogeneous a group they may comprise. If these techniques are efficient they can be used to introduce the experiential based teaching of anthropology in new places in the curriculum. This method of teaching is well-suited for anthropology, and is informally well established. We will formalise and expand a long-established informal teaching technique to ensure that it continues in the face of the coming pressures of the next century by developing resources that can be fitted into existing courses to enhance our students teaching and learning experience.
Experience gained by research is expensive.
We seek means by which more research can be exploited directly in the teaching and learning process. This fits neatly with the layered approach to anthropology mentioned in the introduction. Schools, Preachers, and New Attitudes to the Page. R.L. Bensonand G. Constable.