Building capacity and transforming lives: Anthropology undergraduates and religious campus‐climate research on a public university campus
Building capacity and transforming lives: Anthropology undergraduates and religious campus‐climate research on a public university campus
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能力建设和改变生活：人类学本科生和宗教校园——公立大学校园的气候研究
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10.1111/napa.12106
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发表时间：
2016
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B. Glass
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B. Glass
本文讲述了参加犹他州立大学应用和参与式人类学研究项目的本科生研究人员如何利用他们的研究经验，帮助我们的校园成为一个更受欢迎的地方，以不同的方式定位于宗教和灵性。这里描述的校园气候研究项目旨在调查不同的宗教和精神承诺与我们校园里不舒服或幸福的感觉之间的关系。参与这个项目的学生获得了作为研究人员的宝贵技能。此外，他们还成为了一场运动的学生领袖，以促进校园里更友好的氛围。这两种经历--作为学生研究人员和校园变革推动者--都为这些学生提供了增值技能和知识，这些技能和知识将提高就业能力。应用和参与式人类学远远不是一个“无名之辈”，它让这些本科生做好了迎接挑战的准备，因为这个世界现在比以往任何时候都更需要人类学的视角。
This paper tells the story of how undergraduate researchers participating in an applied and participatory anthropological research project at Utah State University have used their research experience to help make our campus a more welcoming place for all who orient around religion and spirituality differently. The campus-climate research project described herein was designed to investigate the relationship between diverse religious and spiritual commitments and feelings of discomfort or well-being on our campus. Students who worked on this project gained valuable skills as researchers. Additionally, they became student leaders of a movement to promote a more welcoming climate on campus. Both kinds of experience—as student researchers and as campus-change-agents—have provided these students with value-added skills and knowledge that will increase employability. Far from a “degree to nowhere,” applied and participatory anthropology has prepared these undergraduates to meet the challenges of a world that needs the anthropological lens now more than ever before.