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active learning to the rescue?

A colleague at another university brought this article to my attention.
 
In an era of declining institutional support for the discipline, a panel suggests how pedagogy can help anthropology save itself.
Some anthropologists I’ve talked to think these activities are great, and some think they are too basic for their own students. Beyond that are larger questions: can the kinds of projects and activities described in the article reinvigorate student interest in a discipline?