{"pk":42154,"title":"Building a #COVIDSyllabus: Lessons for the Future of Collaborative Pedagogy","subtitle":null,"abstract":"In early March 2020, Teaching and Learning Anthropology (TLA) initiated a crowdsourced document entitled “Teaching COVID-19: An Anthropology Syllabus Project.” This essay reflects on TLA’s #COVIDSyllabus in the context of a broader shift toward the use of crowdsourced hashtag syllabi – or #syllabi – in social justice movements. I argue that the #COVIDSyllabus holds important lessons for anthropological teaching and learning. As a collaborative, open-access pedagogical project, the syllabus points to new possibilities for 1) expanding public anthropological engagement with contemporary social issues; 2) democratizing knowledge practices and centering the contributions of often marginalized scholars and activists; and 3) building shared communities of praxis within the discipline and among scholar-activists. The full syllabus can be downloaded from this essay’s supplemental materials; the live document is available at https://bit.ly/TeachCOVID19.","language":"en","license":{"name":"Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial  4.0","short_name":"CC BY-NC 4.0","text":"Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\n\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\n\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0"},"keywords":[{"word":"COVID-19"},{"word":"hashtag syllabus"},{"word":"social media"},{"word":"collaborative pedagogy"}],"section":"Commentaries","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2942g1g6","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Angela","middle_name":"C.","last_name":"Jenks","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of California, Irvine","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2021-06-17T00:43:24+01:00","date_accepted":"2021-06-17T00:43:24+01:00","date_published":"2021-07-21T08:00:00+01:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/teachinglearninganthro/article/42154/galley/31476/download/"}]}