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hdavis,

I appreciate the way you're looking at the anthropologist and the teacher together in this light, and the black box is a helpful way to think about what we bring that we may not even realize we're bringing.  A key question that your post raises for me is how to actually become aware of our 'blac boxes,' and I'm using this now as a kind of metaphor for our assumptions, expectations, etc., so that we can actually hear what others (our students, in the education case) are saying.  Freire goes through a pretty lengthy and complex description of the process teachers need to go through to understand and, in a sense, begin with students' perspectives.  As an anthropologist and/or as an educator, what do you see as a realistic and effective way to hear others' 'particular views of the world'?