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Ndugelo Trevar PhophiAnthropology · Human Behaviour · AI

Teaching

Education as preparation for thinking, not for recall.

Anthropology is at its most useful when it is taught as a habit of mind: attention, description and the discipline of not assuming. That is the standard this teaching practice is built towards.

Philosophy

Four commitments in the classroom.

01

Critical thinking

Students should leave able to interrogate a claim, locate its assumptions and ask what evidence would change it. This matters more than any single body of content.

02

Anthropological inquiry

Fieldwork teaches a rare discipline: describe before you judge. Learning to observe carefully is a transferable intellectual skill, not a specialist technique.

03

Research-led education

Teaching draws directly on live research. Students engage with questions that are genuinely unresolved, including the parts that are still uncertain.

04

Student-centred learning

Classrooms are contexts too. Teaching begins with what students already know, do and worry about, and builds from there rather than over it.

Practice

Courses

Future undergraduate and postgraduate teaching in anthropology, medical anthropology, digital anthropology and research methods.

Guest lectures

Available for lectures and seminars on human behaviour, digital trust and human-centred artificial intelligence.

Supervision

Future supervision of student research on behaviour, trust, health and technology.