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Multimodal ethnographies for teaching anthropological sensibilities

Teaching Anthropology

Anna Apostolidou PhD, Assistant Professor of Social Anthropology, Ionian University Given the history of our discipline, it seems rather peculiar that anthropologists are not more “naturally inclined” to employ multimodality in their research and teaching. Summer is just around the corner -enjoy! Apostolidou, A. Palgrave Macmillan.

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Renowned HBCU creates a ‘safe haven’ for Black feminist and queer studies

The Hechinger Report

The women’s college received 13,614 applications for the fall of 2022 – a 48 percent increase over the 9,179 who applied in fall of 2019, according to a spokesperson for the college. Enrollment over the same time period rose by about 12 percent, and the number of students who are majoring in women’s studies has remained steady.

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Teaching ‘action civics’ engages kids — and ignites controversy

The Hechinger Report

They point to dismal scores on national history and civics exams — less than 25 percent scored as proficient — as proof that schools need to spend more time teaching students core facts about our system of government, and warn that civics projects are displacing that instruction. Teachers, for their part, tend to side with the liberals.

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COLUMN: Should schools teach climate activism?

The Hechinger Report

Social justice is a core value of Fannie Lou Hamer Freedom High School, and the school also belongs to a special assessment cons ortium , giving it more freedom in what is taught than a typical New York City public high school. Related: How do we teach Black history in polarized times?

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OPINION: What if everything we believe about education is a lie?

The Hechinger Report

This flies in the face of common sense and human history, deBoer argued. If social justice is your aim, perhaps housing, health care, taxation and income may be more effective public policy levers than education. Pondiscio is the author of How The Other Half Learns: Equality, Excellence, and the Battle over School Choice (2019).

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

The Hechinger Report

By month’s end, there were 665 (including Reilly), which was more than double the college’s June 2019 applications. “We Missouri’s Fast Track Workforce Incentive Grant, created in 2019 to target those 25 and older, has a “clawback” provision so students who don’t fulfill requirements must repay it as a loan with interest.

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The Politics and Limits of Aspiration

Anthropology News

These schools often frame their efforts in social justice terms. For example, Launch’s manual states that “encouraging high aspirations in all our students” is meant to “reverse the social engineering of apartheid.” Driven by this critique, he returned to Launch as a history teacher with aims to help “decolonize classrooms.”