Teaching Anthropology

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

It is also a point at which I want to remind students of core course concepts like cultural relativism and ethnocentrism. I also want them leaving with clear ideas about how cultural relativism and ethnocentrism are relevant in their day-to-day lives. 27 Feb 2023) Fast and Pluribus: Impacts of a Globalizing McDonald’s.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

New Jersey had the nations lowest proportion roughly 2 percent of eligible students receiving these services in 2023. million who were eligible in 2023, the most recent year for which data is available. million in federal and state funds in 2023, the last year that complete data is available.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

As a teacher, I know that the desire for building a culture of trust is strong — and mutual. This is a culture of fear, not of trust. Yet, at the same time, we need to recognize the sometimes deep cultural differences between ourselves and our students’ parents and listen to parents’ real concerns.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Less than 40 percent of teens surveyed reported having any media literacy instruction during the 2023-24 school year, according to the analysis. Just six states have guidelines for how to teach media literacy, and only three make it a requirement in public schools.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 3, 2024

By reframing prehistoric creativity as an inter-generational endeavor, this study reveals that children were not just observers but active participants in shaping their cultural landscapes. Children, Metaphorical Thinking, and Upper Paleolithic Visual Cultures Author : Nowell, A. Journal : Childhood in the Past , 2015.

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

Tailored Garments and Human Expansion The production of tailored garments with closely stitched seams was a key cultural innovation that enabled early humans to survive harsh climates. Source: Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports , 2020. Source: Cambridge Archaeological Journal , 2021. Source: Quaternary Science Reviews , 2020.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 19, 2024

This discovery reshapes our understanding of early animal domestication and its cultural significance in Predynastic Egypt. 2024.106104 The Discovery at Hierakonpolis Hierakonpolis, located about 100 kilometers from modern-day Luxor, was a thriving center of Predynastic Egyptian culture and an early hub of political power.

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Sapiens

JANUARY 29, 2025

As a paleontologist, I traveled in May 2023 to the Indonesian islands of the Riau Archipelago, just south of Singapore, as part of an ongoing quest for evidence of Homo erectus , one of our oldest ancestors who once lived in this region from about 1.9 million years ago to 110,000 years ago.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Hirsch, a professor emeritus of education and humanities at the University of Virginia, argues that democracy benefits when the citizenry shares a body of knowledge and history, which he calls cultural literacy. A 2023 study of the Core Knowledge curriculum, which was not peer reviewed, received a lot of buzz.

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Sapiens

JANUARY 13, 2025

In November 2023 , Ian Fry , the first U.N. A translators notes are refashioned into a poem calling for justice for Indigenous peoples in the Philippines displaced by a megadam. Translation Notes is part of the collection Poets Resist, Refuse, and Find a Way Through. Read the introduction to the collection here.

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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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ED Surge

JANUARY 9, 2024

Perhaps it’s no surprise that EdSurge’s most popular podcast episode of 2023 focused on ChatGPT. This episode originally ran in January of 2023 and was early in describing the classroom impacts of these new technologies. A new AI chatbot can spit out long-form answers to just about any question, in a way that sounds eerily human.

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Edthena

APRIL 3, 2023

And spoiler alert… Winners will receive a subscription to the AI Coach platform for the 2023-24 school year for their entire school. Or perhaps it’s someone who continually self-reflects on their classroom culture and teaching. Find information about the 2023 Teacher Leader Impact Award and the quick nomination form here.

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Edthena

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Improving school culture is high on many school leaders’ lists of building priorities. But cultivating a strong school culture doesn’t happen without intentional thought and planning. Why is this key to improving school culture ? Check out the highlights of what we’ve been reading below, as well as links to the full resources.

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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. The football team practices on a new field at Watonga High School, Wednesday, Oct.

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TCI

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

This investment represented a tripling of funds dedicated to these subjects in 2023, with continued allocation in the 2024 federal budget. It has enabled states to expand access to culturally relevant content, address equity concerns, and enhance students’ digital skills and civic readiness.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2025

The government made a rightward shift in 2023 to the National Party, ending six years of leadership under former Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, who had an international profile. Other schools have embraced culturally responsive mathematics instruction in efforts to boost the achievement of Mori and Pasifika students.

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Sapiens

JANUARY 14, 2025

Over time, Salesian intrusion, brutal at first, moved away from repressive evangelization to support land demarcation, Indigenous self-rule, and cultural revival. Settler colonialism slowly eroded Shuar control of Gualaquiza, carving itself into the land with the help of epidemics, trade, and boarding schools.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 22, 2025

These include writing culturally relevant lesson plans, automating report cards and helping translate communication with parents. Presenters also highlighted stark differences between how preschool classrooms in different countries are using technology and the cultural gaps in attitudes about technology post-pandemic.

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Teaching American History

MARCH 11, 2025

In 2023, he returned the encouragement Messick had given him. As immigrant students from Somalia, Venezuela, and elsewhere have swelled the student population in her district, students attitudes toward racial, religious, and cultural diversity have shifted toward greater openness. Some of them encourage her.

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Teaching Anthropology

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

It is also a point at which I want to remind students of core course concepts like cultural relativism and ethnocentrism. I also want them leaving with clear ideas about how cultural relativism and ethnocentrism are relevant in their day-to-day lives. 27 Feb 2023) Fast and Pluribus: Impacts of a Globalizing McDonald’s.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Over two and a half days, district leaders explored how emerging technologies can support powerful learning, surfaced and shared innovative learnings and leadership practices, and helped us welcome the League of Innovative Schools 2022-2023 cohort. Opening panel moderated by Digital Promise’s President and CEO, Jean-Claude Brizard.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

.” A Travois Without Wheels: Early Transport Innovation A travois—a simple sled-like structure made from wooden poles tied in an A-frame—has long been documented in Native American cultures. Historically, it was used by Plains peoples to haul loads across the land, often drawn by horses or dogs. Quaternary Science Advances.

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Geography Education

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The region of Nagorno-Karabakh has had ethnic, political, and cultural strife ever since the fall of the Soviet Union. In October 2023, Azerbaijan militarily took over the region prompting many ethnic Armenians to flee to Armenia. Since 1994, this was the event that Armenia was trying to prevent, but couldn’t.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2024

They want to see themselves and their cultures reflected in the books we read, and they don’t want token representation. They nod along as we cover topics that connect to stories their grandparents shared with them, like tales of migration and cultural celebrations. She is a 2023-24 Teach Plus Colorado Policy Fellow.

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Sapiens

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

In this regard, we were both deeply struck by a story on November 9, 2023, of a team of researchers that had sighted Attenborough’s long-beaked echidna in Indonesia’s Cyclops Mountains. Sighted shortly before October 2023, your timing could not be more important. You are no monster. You are a portent. One way explodes all around us.

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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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Political Science Now

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Shortly after her official retirement on August 15, 2023, Harmon Martin launched the Dr. Shiela Harmon Martin Political Science Opportunity Fund, designed to support a wide range of financial needs for political science majors.

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Teaching Anthropology

JUNE 12, 2023

London Anthropology day, 30 th June 2023, British Museum Are you fascinated by different cultures? Curious about human evolution? Or looking for a broad and exciting degree? Discover what anthropology is all about by popping along to the British Musuem for London Anthropology Day.

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Teaching American History

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Some of the more recent challenges to the First Amendment have involved the control of media platforms, hate speech, cancel culture, political-corporate collusion, foreign disinformation, and campus protests, as well as debates over curriculum, broad antidiscrimination laws, and speech compelled by public and private bureaucracies.

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Maitri Learning

JANUARY 12, 2025

. #2: Learning is Embedded in Culture and Relationships Our brains physically change in response to our social and cultural context. Research shows that simply living in different cultures creates measurable differences in brain activity and structure. Our classrooms and families are also forms of culture. link] Han, S.

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ASHP CML

OCTOBER 11, 2022

ASHP/CML will host a National Endowment for the Humanities-funded institute in Summer 2023 for 25 college and university teachers to study the visual culture of the American Civil War and its aftermath. Resources and activities from previous institutes are available online on The Visual Culture of the American Civil War website.

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Anthropology News

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

These screenshots were taken in 2023. Here, the NIH was able to announce funding awards to five research groups (not ours) by late August of 2021, and the first publications out of this funding began to emerge in 2022 and 2023 , though not all publications resulting from this funding were about vaccines.

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Marginal Revolution

JANUARY 21, 2024

Rather it seems cinema has turned a corner and is vital and original again (though not culturally central?). The best films of 2023 list was very good as well. The post 2024 is already an incredible year for cinema appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Yadira Mederos De Cardenas, a teacher at the early learning center All Five, in the Belle Haven neighborhood of Menlo Park, May 26, 2023. We are always constantly trying to build a stronger school culture," she said. "In She said in Mexican culture it's the mother's responsibility to take care of children. In 2020, at 16.2

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Teaching Anthropology

DECEMBER 16, 2023

Morais, Columbia Business School In the fall of 2023, I integrated generative artificial intelligence (AI) into my Columbia Business School course, Market Intelligence: The Art and the Science. Conceptual Jumping Off Point 2: Duncan Hines as Cultural Transmitter 5.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2023

Life at her new school started to change for the better when she began learning the music of her Native Hawaiian culture. “It In many cases, these are the same culturally rich communities of color that produce the popular American music we listen to every day and that drive the multi-billion-dollar global music business.

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