Sapiens

JANUARY 14, 2025

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. Later, they encouraged us to keep speaking our language and preserve our traditional dances.

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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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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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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2025

In New Zealand, where schools operate far more independently than traditional public schools in the United States, it would be the job of principals like Rodgers to determine how best to teach the countrys math standards. Related: Widen your perspective. Our free weekly newsletter consults critical voices on innovation in K-12 education.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

President Jokowi Widodo, more commonly known as ”Jokowi,” and Vice President Jusuf Kalla surprised the public when attending Indonesia’s 2017 State of the Union Address (SOTU) by wearing traditional attire. President Jokowi seeks to embody and represent this rich cultural diversity.

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 23, 2025

But beneath its cracked sediment and the shifting shoreline of long-vanished lakes, archaeologists are beginning to piece together a story not just of survival—but of deep cultural adaptation. Ostrich Beads and the Material Memory of the Steppe The Gobi Desert was never a cultural void. Muntowski and M. Yet they made pottery.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

. “These features, whatever their age, demonstrate traditional ancient Indigenous practices, driven by the universal human need to transport possessions and resources.” Historically, it was used by Plains peoples to haul loads across the land, often drawn by horses or dogs. Quaternary Science Advances. DOI: 10.1016/j.qsa.2025.100274

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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. In what has become an annual tradition, we’re sharing your favorite episodes of the year, as determined by the number of listens to the 44 fresh episodes we produced.

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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. Rodriguez stressed exploring alternative pathways and assessments to traditional instruction.

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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. My daughter and I both felt that the wisdom of the tradition should reach a wider audience, of children and adults alike. You are no monster.

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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. Research shows that simply living in different cultures creates measurable differences in brain activity and structure.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2023

But the latest national study from a Stanford University research group calculates that students, on average, learned more at charter schools between the years of 2014 and 2019 than similar students did at their traditional local public schools. We see that existing schools are getting better over time and that’s a hugely positive story.”

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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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ED Surge

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In today’s system, there are limited opportunities for students’ interests, experiences, hopes, cultures and perspectives to be a part of their education. Creating a network of young change agents within communities of color fosters a positive sense of self, community, culture and purpose.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 1, 2024

One Alabama town is trying to change that We can help address this problem by creating a highly trained, skilled and culturally competent educator workforce. Yet, traditional ESOL teacher certification processes are often burdensome, inflexible and financially onerous. Related: English language teachers are scarce.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 28, 2024

Adirondack Cultural Ecology. They are breaking out of traditional silos and disciplines, and ensuring that these courses are encountered by as many students as possible. Environment and Sustainability in Enlightenment France. Modeling for Energy and Infrastructure Project Finance. Perspectives on the Amazon. At least not yet. “We

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2024

But her motivations are also deeply personal, cultural, and, in some ways, unique to Philadelphia. Nearly 60,000 students statewide were enrolled full time in cyber charters in 2023-24, according data from the Pennsylvania Department of Education. For financial literacy class, they go to the bank to open an account.

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ED Surge

JUNE 10, 2024

So, we incorporated principles like Universal Design for Learning (UDL) to ensure cultural relevancy and inclusivity, created project prompts around climate change and mental well-being and designed professional learning and curriculum supports to emphasize our district’s priorities.

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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Motivated to address the localized effects of climate change, we formed a collective called Yāmāl in the summer of 2023. Fifteen students specializing in traditional handicrafts collaborated with local artisans to illustrate a children’s book. Credit: Mohsen Mehdipour A mountainous landscape near Laft, Qeshm Island.

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Anthropology News

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

It is “an approach to research and writing that seeks to describe and systematically analyze personal experience in order to understand cultural experience ”. I would not, under any circumstances, conform to the traditional rules and expectations which accompany gifts of terror.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2021

By recruiting and then mentoring new teachers of color, listening to these teachers’ requests, supporting the development of culturally responsive curricula and promoting educators of color into administrative and district leadership positions, Phoenix Union is getting steadily closer to aligning its teacher and student populations.

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Sapiens

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Importantly, the plan for this sanctuary is that the federal government and Native tribes of this part of California will collaboratively manage the CHNMS to protect the region’s marine ecosystems and cultural heritage.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2023

In early April 2023, I started getting emails and messages urging me to take a look at a fresh reading study in Colorado. Hirsch, who developed the curriculum used in these schools and whose 1987 book Cultural Literacy inspired the common core standards movement in American education. Some postponed starting kindergarten that year.

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ED Surge

MARCH 9, 2023

Less than three months into 2023, there have been seven. 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. There were 46 school shootings in 2022. high school students.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2024

But traditional internships are not universally accessible. “At Not everybody is a traditional 18- to 22-year-old student,” Churches said. In 2023, 60 percent of Braven “fellows” landed in quality jobs or graduate schools within six months of graduation, compared to 43 percent of their peers nationally, according to the organization.

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Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 21, 2024

After all, framed that way, teachers give hundreds of standardized tests a year, even those who do learner-centered assessment, project-based learning, or otherwise collect evidence of student learning in ways that are considered alternative or non-traditional. Resources and Recommended Texts Melton Doyle, G. & & Gerene, A.

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ED Surge

MAY 20, 2024

But for Fiske, of Mysa, the popularity of alternatives to public school actually raises a concern: She fears that her approach to microschooling could be eclipsed by politics and cultural war clashes. While popular in some conservative circles, classical learning isn’t traditionally a byword for culture war politics.

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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

AUGUST 11, 2024

Through an audio essay, inspired by John Akomfrah’s documentary “The Last Angel of History,” attention is drawn to South Africa’s evolving visual scene and its engagement with cultural nuances within the NFT AI space. Again, is anything ever really new? Third point. Sub-Saharan Africa experienced an 11.6

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2024

Of 100 urban universities surveyed by the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia, three-quarters included public service as part of their missions. The ‘town-gown’ dynamic,” said Dombrowski, a cultural anthropologist. We have names for it, right?

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Political Science Now

JULY 23, 2024

Bunche Award is presented annually by the American Political Science Association (APSA) to honor the best scholarly work in political science that explores the phenomenon of ethnic and cultural pluralism. For his scholarship, he was the recipient of the 2023 James W. Bunche Award was created to acknowledge.

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Anthropology News

JUNE 18, 2024

What does the stereotype tell us about educational culture and structure more broadly? Although publicly available chatbots had only been in the mainstream for one semester when we surveyed (fall 2023), 71% of students indicated they thought that GenAI would become an essential part of most professions. Is this fair? Is it right?

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Anthropology News

JUNE 27, 2024

Writing with ChatGPT (Christopher Lowman) In fall 2023, I taught an anthropological writing course playfully titled Writing a Time-Traveler’s Travel Guide. College writing in 2023 means reckoning with students’ use of ChatGPT. To that end, the class activity had three main components. Building such a repository was overly ambitious.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2019

But as admissions officers judge the means and merits of applicants for the Class of 2023, what should they look for? Like the country itself, struggling to transition away from a straight, white, male-centered culture, campuses are laboring to find the best way to evolve. 13, 2018.

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Anthropology News

APRIL 4, 2024

For over two years, working at Owamni, a James-Beard-award-winning Indigenous restaurant, and NATIFS (North American Traditional Indigenous Food Systems), their partnering culinary nonprofit, has changed not only what I eat but when and how much. lunches) that fall before or after traditional times of eating. dinners or 4 p.m.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

I’ll start with a confession: I am not a cultural anthropologist. in 2023 from the University of Florida (UF) as part of the “COVID generation” of students. .” – bell hooks From January to May 2024, I taught a class that could have been blocked at my previous institution in Florida—if it wasn’t potentially illegal.

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