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Active learning as a pedagogical strategy to enhance the learning of anthropology

Teaching Anthropology

I first trialed active learning strategies while teaching at the University of Oxford, where one of the challenges of teaching anthropology is the diverse background of the students (Bastide, 2012). Anthropology modules appear in programs in three programs I have taught: Archaeology and Anthropology, Human Sciences, and Music.

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More students are dropping out of college during Covid — and it could get worse

The Hechinger Report

Sara Goldrick-Rab, professor of sociology and medicine, Temple University. That was an increase of 2 percentage points over the previous year, and the highest share of students not returning for their sophomore year since 2012. Related: Debt without degree — The human cost of college debt that becomes ‘purgatory’.

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Revisiting the Spiritual Violence of BS Jobs

Sapiens

Such roles are prevalent in areas such as finance, admin, law, marketing, and human resources. B t jobs, Graeber argues, have bloomed in professions like finance (financial services); law (corporate law); administration (academic and health administration); and marketing, public relations, and human resources.

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For adults returning to college, ‘free’ tuition isn’t enough

The Hechinger Report

Adults with workplace skills such as human resources training or financial management deserve credit for such college-level learning, said Mathew Bergman, an associate professor at the University of Louisville who is a national expert in adult learning and teaches in the program. Yet, higher education has been a tough sell in Kentucky.

Economics 143
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From prison to dean’s list: How Danielle Metz got an education after incarceration

The Hechinger Report

At FCI Dublin, women were studying English literature, psychology and sociology when Metz first arrived. She’d gone to Grambling State University on a track scholarship right after high school, but she’d dropped out after a year, then wandered in and out of college before enrolling in SUNO in 2012.

Education 112
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A university grapples with its links to slavery and racism

The Hechinger Report

Leave this field empty if you're human: Many colleges and universities are grappling with their historical connections to slavery. Jeffrey Jackson, a professor in the sociology department at Ole Miss, is a member of the Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on History and Context, which spearheaded the creation of the plaques. Weekly Update.

History 88
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Olukunle Owolabi Receives the 2024 Merze Tate – Elinor Ostrom Outstanding Book Award for “Ruling Emancipated Slaves and Indigenous Subjects”

Political Science Now

These processes enabled political trajectories that led to higher levels of human development and more robust postcolonial democratization in contexts previously characterized by forced settlement than those that experienced colonial occupation. University of Notre Dame, 2012). He holds degrees in International Relations (B.A.