Sapiens

JANUARY 14, 2025

Germn Tsamarenda, the president of the Etsa Shuar Association, poses in front of his truck in November 2022. Tsamarenda, a young man wearing a traditional red and yellow toucan feather crown, was personally delivering the seeds. We achieved all that, he said, without forgetting our sovereignty, our customs, and tradition.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Found in different parts of Europe, these two industries have often been grouped together as “transitional industries,” implying that they might share a common technological or cultural origin. To correct this, the team organized a workshop where archaeologists directly examined artifacts from both traditions side by side.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Across the San Carlos Unified School District, 76 percent of students were chronically absent during the 2022-2023 school year, meaning they missed 10 percent or more of the school year. government’s campaign to break up Native American culture, language and identity by forcing children into abusive boarding schools.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Of 34 states with data available for the 2022-2023 school year, Oklahoma was the only one where Native students missed school at lower rates than the state average, according to data collected by The Associated Press. She said Cheyenne students have been teased over aspects of their traditional ceremonies and powwow music.

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Teaching Anthropology

MARCH 7, 2024

By Shelene Gomes, University of the West Indies, & Lara Watkins, Bridgewater State University Students can read about culture, but hearing peers narrate personal experiences in another country provides invaluable firsthand insights. Analysing these narratives allows for a deeper understanding of cultural differences.

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Anthropology.net

JANUARY 17, 2025

The Acheulian culture, which emerged around 1.75 Unlike its predecessor, the Oldowan tradition, which focused on basic percussive technologies, the Acheulian period is marked by a broader use of advanced tools such as handaxes and cleavers. Emerging from the earlier Oldowan tradition around 1.75 Quaternary International.

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Sapiens

JANUARY 7, 2025

According to medical anthropologist Eileen Moyer , the sculptor Nicolas Dings included this imagery to invoke thoughts of cultural diversity and tolerance toward migrants. Moyer, who is from the U.S., sees herself reflected in the parakeets. They may be migrants to the city, she writes, but its quickly become their home.

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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Through these practices, they could not only evoke the flavors of home and pass down traditions but also begin mending wounds left by separation. Nala: Care as Reconceptualizing Tradition Payasam is the sweet, so it has to be sweet, Nala says of this creamy tapioca dessert, traditionally made for celebrations.

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 2, 2025

The discovery of a sophisticated stone tool tradition in southern China is now forcing a major reassessment of that assumption. The presence of this distinctive technology so far from its previously known origins raises new questions about ancient human migrations, cultural exchange, and independent innovation. link] de Beaune, S.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Her developmental disability prevented her from attending a traditional college, but she took courses online and became a librarians assistant at a public library in Long Island. Students and parents see them immersed in the culture of the school. They know what their strengths are. They know how to ask for accommodations at work.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 1, 2025

Credit: Patience Zalanga for The Hechinger Report There was a logic behind that: In a traditional course sequence, finishing calculus is easier if students take Algebra I by eighth grade since they can continue on to geometry, Algebra II, precalculus or trigonometry, and then calculus their senior year. Related: Widen your perspective.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 10, 2025

The presence of these distinct lithic technologies indicates that hunter-gatherers in this region were part of a broader cultural tradition that spanned much of southern Europe in the final millennia of the Ice Age. The radiocarbon dating places these tools firmly within the Early Epigravettian, aligning with known sites across Italy.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

But was its use during the Upper Paleolithic purely practical, or did it hold deeper cultural significance? The research, published in Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 1 , presents compelling micro-archaeological evidence that fire was not just a survival tool but a defining cultural trait of the Gravettian tradition.

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Anthropology News

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

There is a plethora of research showing how immune , inflammatory , energetic , and psychosocial stress can influence menstruation, and we describe some of it in our 2022 publication. From the time Kate Clancy tweeted about her experience and well beyond the launch of the survey, discussion continued on Twitter and other social media spaces.

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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. There was nothing like this.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 6, 2025

The archaeological discovery of Preclassic clay figurines atop the San Isidro pyramid in El Salvador raises profound questions about the social and ritualistic lives of Mesoamerican cultures. Or echoes of a broader pan-Mesoamerican tradition? Were these figures sacred objects of devotion? Props in an ancient performance?

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

In the summer of 2022, one of us, Kalzang Dorjee Bhutia, brought gifts to his relatives with babies in northeast India. A scholar of Sikkimese religions and cultures, Kalzang saw plastic khatak and lungta when visiting his relatives’ newborns. However, white is actually the traditional color for flags.

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Teaching Anthropology

DECEMBER 16, 2023

In preparation for a class based my 2022 article in Teaching Anthropology, Toward a Pedagogy for Consumer Anthropology: Method, Theory, Marketing , I provided ChatGPT with the following prompt: Use the research findings below to create 12 marketing ideas for Duncan Hines cake mix.

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Teaching Anthropology

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

This observation speaks to the idea that different modes of communication and expression are fundamental to understanding and interpreting different societies and cultures and, consequently, that the semiotic complexity of human experience cannot be contained in plain text.

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Maitri Learning

JANUARY 12, 2025

Moving Beyond the "Brain in a Bucket" Theory For too long, traditional education has viewed learning as simply filling an empty vessel with knowledge, as if the brain operated in isolation from emotions and the body. Recent research by Gotlieb and colleagues (2022) shows that this drive for meaning has profound effects on brain development.

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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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Sapiens

APRIL 2, 2025

The seeds for my 2024 project at SAPIENS were initially planted when in 2022, I was selected as one of the fellows for the Sensitive Provenances Research Project hosted at the University of Gttingen in Germany. In Survival Notes , I recognize the tradition that so many women before me started. My poems are a call to action.

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Anthropology News

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Performing Care as a Delegate Child It was a snowy day in late December 2022 when I accompanied Xiao Zhang on her visit to a nursing home in the Jing-Jin-Ji region of northern China. In their operations, the role of delegated children extends beyond traditional care work, which is typically limited to daily caregiving tasks.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2024

Scores on an international math test fell a record 15 points between 2018 and 2022 — the equivalent of students losing three-quarters of a school year of learning. On the 2022 survey, about 70 percent of students reported regularly receiving extra help from teachers , but that figure represents a drop of 3 percentage points from 2012.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2023

What’s also becoming well-known is the essential role of traditional and Indigenous ecological knowledge in the effort to cope with the climate crisis. Her watchwords are “cultural humility, cultural relevance and the cultural landscape.” Making sure the kids know their culture — it’s not easy,” she said. “

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 20, 2024

That said, the effort has come with challenges: Northgate spent many months getting buy-in from school staff and families at a time when school-based mental health had become a target of the culture wars elsewhere. Covid lit the house on fire,” said Jeff Evancho, Northgate’s director of partnerships and equity.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 28, 2024

Adirondack Cultural Ecology. In a 2022 global survey , 60 percent of higher education institutions said that climate-related content is found in fewer than 10 percent of their courses. They are breaking out of traditional silos and disciplines, and ensuring that these courses are encountered by as many students as possible.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2024

But Boaler’s popularity and influence have made her a focal point in the current math wars, which also seem to reflect the broader culture wars. Nearly 2 out of every 5 eighth graders don’t even have the most basic math skills, according to the 2022 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP).

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ED Surge

MAY 13, 2024

Drawing on ACT data from the eight Southern states that require or pay for high schoolers to take the test, Smith and his colleagues found that, between 2013 and 2022, interest steadily dwindled. There’s much more of a tradition of being on your own in your class with your door closed.” Gen Z is looking for flexibility.

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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. Encouraging teachers to collaborate, coach and mentor others can also improve climate, culture and retention.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 28, 2024

Caldera was sitting in the reservation’s new call center, a converted classroom decorated with a giant mural depicting three young Native people in traditional garb on one wall and a mural featuring several Pacific Northwest animals in front of Mt. “I get to help people and pass on my vibes to them,” she said.

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ED Surge

MARCH 9, 2023

There were 46 school shootings in 2022. There has also been an outlash of criticism on curriculum , coursework and materials, with efforts to restrict what educators teach, that has put racial, cultural and historical identities under attack. Less than three months into 2023, there have been seven. high school students.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 3, 2023

As 2022 turns into 2023, EdSurge asked educators and education leaders to share reflections on learning “lost” and “gained.” Instead of going to college to get a job, traditional students increasingly find or create a job that comes with college. This left many innovators and educators feeling misinformed, dated or disconnected.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 23, 2025

I met Nazneen, a twenty-five-year-old university student, in an eating joint tucked away from the busy and crowded lanes of Patna Market in 2022. ” This capacity, as demonstrated in Nazneen’s case, doesn’t reject traditional roles but rather reimagines them.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 18, 2021

As districts address unfinished learning, evaluate student growth, and re-engage school communities during the 2021-2022 school year, data equity can highlight where support is needed and help schools better support students’ experiences and needs. Dr. Nathan Fisher Superintendent, Roselle Public Schools.

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Sapiens

MARCH 19, 2024

During a survey in 2022, we found graffiti on the work area walls that expresses the religious and symbolic worldviews of those who toiled in the mill centuries ago. Other objects, including fragments of African ceramics and a cowrie shell, show the perseverance of cultural traditions among the enslaved workers.

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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. In this way, Todd and Sonkin reinforced the stereotype of the Okies as country bumpkins, making them seem far less connected to mainstream American culture than they actually were.

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