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Bleeding-Edge Praxis: Leveraging Anthropology and Feminist Science for Emerging Issues

Anthropology News

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. 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.

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PROOF POINTS: Stanford’s Jo Boaler talks about her new book ‘MATH-ish’ and takes on her critics

The Hechinger Report

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). Boaler also saw math as a lever to promote social justice. In 2022 and 2023, it gave Boaler’s organization more than $560,000. She advocated for change.

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PROOF POINTS: Leading dyslexia treatment isn’t a magic bullet, studies find, while other options show promise

The Hechinger Report

Instead, suggesting a way forward, a review of 53 reading studies , led by University of Virginia researcher Colby Hall and published online September 2022 in Reading Research Quarterly, found that much cheaper reading interventions for children with a variety of reading difficulties were also quite effective for children with dyslexia.

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Two Programs with Fresh Solutions to the Teacher Shortage

Cult of Pedagogy

In 2022, we explored some of the reasons teachers are leaving the classroom , so we won’t go into them here. “It was written to appeal to Gen Z, so (it focused on) the idea of social justice, of using the classroom as a means for change, literacy as a means for change.”

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Multimodal ethnographies for teaching anthropological sensibilities

Teaching Anthropology

When I consider multimodality, my mind always travels back to Gregory Bateson’s take on communication and the use of multiple modes of mediation in social interaction. Smith (eds.), Handbook of Visual Communication (pp. Levi-Strauss, C. The Savage Mind. University of Chicago Press. Levi-Strauss, C. Look, Listen, Read. Basic Books.

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Intersectional Anthropology as an Avenue Toward Praxis, Pedagogy, and New Anthropological Horizons

Anthropology News

Kimberlé Crenshaw stated that in its original formulation, Intersectionality worked to expose “ how single-axis thinking undermines legal thinking, disciplinary knowledge production, and struggles for social justice.” Studying human bodies provides a deep historical perspective on social dynamics whose echoes remain with us today.

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As Safety Threats Rise in Schools, Could SEL Programs Help?

ED Surge

There were 46 school shootings in 2022. For example, engaging with democratic systems, understanding relevant sociopolitical issues, and developing ethical reasoning and a sense of social justice. Previous SEL research combined these constructs into a general category of social outcomes.

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