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OPINION: Studying humanities can prepare the next generation of social justice leaders

The Hechinger Report

Since 2008, those of us who are champions of the humanities have offered a simple yet profound truth: Studying humanities endows students with a capacity for critical thinking, a skill essential to individual accomplishment and crucial to societal well-being. But that simple truth doesn’t seem to be changing anyone’s mind.

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Multimodal ethnographies for teaching anthropological sensibilities

Teaching Anthropology

Building up on the rich legacy of visual ethnography (Durington & Collins, 2020), multimodality also allows for greater collaboration between researchers and the communities they study, often creating multimedia outputs that reflect the diversity and complexity of cultural practices. G., & Marrero-Guillamón, I. Josephson, J.

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Why decades of trying to end racial segregation in gifted education haven’t worked

The Hechinger Report

Gifted education needs to diversify, they said — for racial and social justice, and because otherwise it might not survive. Edward de Bono’s six “thinking hats,” specifically the one that called on thinkers to assess their ideas and look for potential flaws. But is it possible to make gifted education representative?

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Practicing What We Preach: Using Inquiry to Design a Social Studies Methods Class

C3 Teachers

To support this claim, preservice teachers might bring up the inherently political components of language preservation projects, food sovereignty, linguistic justice, abolitionist teaching, and/or culturally relevant pedagogy (Nickman, 2009; NK 360, 2018; Lyiscott, 2014; Baker Bell, 2020; Love, 2019; Ladson Billings, 1995; 2014).

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How to Keep Teaching Well When DEI is Under Attack

Cult of Pedagogy

That is our social justice call to action during these times.” Using these materials and others like it will continue to strengthen students’ growth and critical thinking skills. We’ll be able to double down on those things because those aren’t so-called woke activities.

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