Anthropology.net

MARCH 31, 2025

It suggests that these journeys were neither incidental nor purely educational but held profound cultural and spiritual significance. Liminal Beings: Children as Mediators In many indigenous cultures, children are perceived as liminal beings—occupying a threshold between the earthly realm and the spiritual world.

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Becoming a History Teacher

AUGUST 15, 2024

But how should we approach this in the history classroom? As history teachers we often problematise controversial issues to ‘see both sides of an issue’. As always it is helpful to come back to the discipline of history and what it means to teach sensitive histories well. Grosvenor (2000, p.157),

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ED Surge

MARCH 5, 2024

Ken Futernick brings together people who disagree deeply on issues that are most dividing school communities these days — such as teaching about gender and sexual identity or about the history of racism in America. I became distressed about these so-called ‘culture wars’ erupting all over the place. And he records the conversations.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2022

history and civics curriculum to be more inclusive and equitable? As an Asian American, my lived experience and this research make me firmly believe that we must do a better job of teaching Asian American history and culture in the U.S. — We must do a better job of teaching Asian American history and culture in the U.S.

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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Its about maintaining connectionto her culture and to those who gather for her dessert. The food she prepares carries the essence of her familys history and her fathers ingenuity, encapsulated in every unmeasured pinch of spice. Her care isnt about perfectly replicating tradition.

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NCHE

APRIL 3, 2023

At the grocery store: “ Your students did such a great job documenting our local history! What’s the name of that young lady who did a history project about Dickson Mounds? These are just a few interactions I’ve had since my students and I shared our public history project, “The Oral History of Forgottonia.”

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ASHP CML

AUGUST 23, 2024

In July, thirty secondary school teachers joined ASHP for an NEH-funded summer institute focused on topics in LGBTQ+ history and culture, discussion of pedagogy, and an introduction to historical documents and materials for classroom use. to gather at the Graduate Center and to visit New York City archives and cultural sites.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

NEW YORK — There’s a new look to history classes in New York City schools: a curriculum in Asian American and Pacific Islander history. history instruction include an Asian American and Pacific Islander K-12 curriculum. Now, they say, it’s time for their history classes, educators and textbooks to catch up. KELLEN ZENG.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 10, 2025

The discovery of an Epigravettian layer at Grotta della Lea now provides a new chapter in this long history, capturing a time when small bands of hunter-gatherers were adapting to life at the edge of the Last Glacial Maximum. What the Bones Reveal Beyond the tools, the cave's faunal remains tell a story of survival and adaptation.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

Once the site of an Indian boarding school, where the federal government attempted to strip children of their tribal identity, the Native American Community Academy now offers the opposite: a public education designed to affirm and draw from each student’s traditional culture and language. The charter school, NACA, opened its doors in 2006.

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Teaching Anthropology

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

A few years ago, as I was researching culture change across generations, I brought my research into the classroom by asking students to do some research in their own families. Embodied space (s) anthropological theories of body, space, and culture. References Keating, E. New York: Penguin Random House.

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ED Surge

JUNE 1, 2022

Autumn Rivera, 2022 Colorado Teacher of the Year, at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in April. Autumn Rivera, 2022 Colorado Teacher of the Year So many times we hear that teachers are superheroes, and I really want to disagree with that, because I'm not a superhero. Photo by Rebeccca Koenig. I'm a human being.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2024

For some subjects, like history, teachers say it’s hard to find comprehensive curricula that not only includes histories of marginalized communities but also includes a state’s local communities. Does it potentially cause more harm than good?

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Teaching Anthropology

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

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.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 11, 2023

Last year, I had the privilege of learning and leading as the 2022 Hawaiʻi State Teacher of the Year and a CCSSO National Finalist. Everett Collection/Shutterstock At the same time, I also recognize that my privileged experience in Hawaiʻi was forged by settler culture , the effects of which still persist in the state educational system.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 11, 2023

As of 2022, 38 states required a semester of civics education in high school; that same year, the federal government increased spending on “American History and Civics” fourfold. These are all great steps in the right direction, but I believe there is still a lack of respect for the importance of history and civics education.

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Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

A Conversation with Sonja Czarnecki Sonja Czarnecki, 2022 MAHG Graduate “In order to understand history, you have to do history,” Sonja Czarnecki insists. After sending the essay to the Chronicles of Oklahoma in late 2022, she forgot about it. I felt like I’d won my own History Day contest!” Czarnecki says.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

That’s the argument of Kieran Egan, a Canadian philosopher and longtime professor at Simon Fraser University who passed away in 2022. You can't have a culture without having metaphors. You can't have a culture without having songs and dances and rituals.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 14, 2024

Roughly 1 in 4 students in the 2022-23 school year remained chronically absent, meaning they missed at least 10 percent of the school year. Still, the problem appears to have passed its peak ; almost every state saw absenteeism improve at least slightly from 2021-22 to 2022-23. where data is available. You get farther behind.”

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2024

In December, the Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture described the predicament as “extremely disconcerting.” Finland is now one of the leaders in using digital devices at school, ranking sixth overall in the 2022 PISA study. teacher and parent living in Finland, I understand the concern.

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Anthropology.net

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

The research, published in the European Journal of Archaeology 1 , offers fresh insights into this ancient game and its cultural significance. 2024 A Global History of Ancient Games Board games have been part of human culture for millennia. The Fifty-Eight holes board from Çapmalı W. Crist et al.,

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ED Surge

MAY 5, 2023

And in a survey administered by the National Education Association in 2022, 55 percent of teachers and support professionals who responded indicated they are thinking about leaving the profession earlier than they had planned. The teacher pipeline is no longer leaking. That is not easily replaced.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 16, 2023

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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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

They were exchanging stickers of sought-after players as they prepared for the 2022 World Cup, which was at least two full months away at that point. Sports and Culturally Responsive Teaching My school sits just six miles from the border with Mexico, and many of my students cross that border daily to attend school in the United States.

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Anthropology for Beginners

AUGUST 17, 2023

By contrast, ethnography is the systematic description of a single contemporary culture, often through ethnographic field. Approaches: Ethnographic fieldwork tradition has a long history and it is rooted from the 19 th century enlightenment philosophy. Roughly the ethnographic approaches can be divided into the following traditions.

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Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

A widely-published writer, he’s the author, co-author, or editor of four music history books and many essays and articles. On Black Music, Pasts and Present (2022) is his latest book. The post The History of Black Music — A Love Supreme appeared first on Zinn Education Project. Ramsey, Jr. Who Hears Here?

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ASHP CML

OCTOBER 11, 2022

This summer thirty middle and high school teachers from throughout the United States joined the ASHP/CML for a National Endowment for the Humanities-funded Summer Institute on LGBTQ+ Histories of the United States. The institute introduced the rich body of recent scholarship covering the span of U.S.

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ED Surge

MARCH 29, 2024

For James Singewald, a typical week goes something like this: Learn about the history of boarding schools in an Indigenous Studies class. Tlingit culture as well as aspects of other Native cultures are being taught in that space. Cook breakfast for a classmate celebrating a birthday. The students are really great.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

In 2022, only 26 percent of all eighth grade students scored proficient or above in mathematics. It Starts in the Community I grew up in northeast Denver — a place rich in Black history and culture where the Denver Public Schools (DPS) Board of Education enacted the Black Excellence Resolution.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Following the inaugural Ivan Karp Worksop in Museum Anthropology in 2022 in Seattle, I had the privilege of participating in the succeeding iteration: Clay, Ceramics, Curation. With these seemingly dissimilar objects in dialogue, the conversation sounded like shared histories and collective issues among people, over time, and across space.

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Teaching American History

JULY 30, 2024

Little wonder that Dunn’s course in this year’s summer residential Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG ) program, “From Courthouse to Schoolhouse,” drew teachers from urban and rural areas across the country. Teachers afraid of this may steer an unnecessarily wide path around painful history that needs to be discussed.

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ED Surge

MAY 24, 2023

In the wake of the Atlanta Spa shootings and a surge in violence against Asian Americans throughout the pandemic, Illinois made history by becoming the first state to mandate that Asian American history be taught in public K-12 schools beginning in the 2022-23 school year. Let’s get them to recognize there is an absence.”

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The voices above represent just a handful of the 80 Asian American K-12 educators who gathered with EdSurge Research in the summer of 2022 to connect in small groups and reflect on their experiences working in U.S. schools in recent years. on March 21, 2021. We talked with educators who immigrated as children to the U.S.,

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Anthropology News

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Recent world migration reports note that, by the end of 2022, the total number of refugees was the highest ever recorded with modern statistical techniques. It represents a key example of how Tibetan refugees have established institutionalized, international education that preserves, advances, and shares Buddhist culture and philosophy.

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Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

While she is the first known Georgia public school teacher to be terminated under what is called the “trio of censorship” laws passed in 2022, the law is impacting classrooms around the state. But this cannot happen if there is a culture of fear that leads teachers to discourage conversations and inquiry. We Want to Go to School!:

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

I’ll start with a confession: I am not a cultural anthropologist. This work entangles power structures with disciplinary histories that work to enforce and reinforce particular narratives about whose bodies are to be studied , whose bodies are to be cared for , and what care looks like for community members. I received my Ph.D.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Collaborative learning thrives in the metaverse , fostering teamwork and cross-cultural communication as students from different locations collaborate on projects. Then, in 2022, I was at the Singapore EDUtech Asia conference, and as I was walking by the booths, I saw my vision had become a reality.

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