Doing Right by Our Undergraduates: Nurturing Possibilities through Collaborative Approaches

Abstract

Undergraduates are coming of age in increasingly perilous times. Anthropology’s hallmark use of ethnography offers much for teaching in this moment, through its capacity to navigate uncertainty, foster understanding across differences, centre empathy and real-world engagement, and, above all, promote collaboration. Acknowledging the particular positioning of my institutional context, I detail how collaborative approaches to advising, group work, peer assessment, and community-engaged experiential learning can nurture a fuller sense that we need not – and do not – navigate crisis and uncertainty alone.