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The Emic Perspective of Generative AI

Teaching Anthropology

2023, and Ouyang et al., There have been course-grained sociological studies on students perceptions of AI (e.g. Chan & Hu, 2023), but no detailed ethnographic work.) 2022, among many). Even with this growing fan club for correct AI use, educators seem to universally want to prohibit bad AI use. Are they overworked?

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Bringing Anthropological Concepts to Life in a Virtual Peer Exchange

Teaching Anthropology

About the Authors Shelene Gomes (she/her), PhD teaches Social Anthropology and the Sociology of Culture at the University of the West Indies, St. She is a 2023-2024 Visiting Scholar in Residence at the University of Cape Town’s Department of Anthropology. Augustine campus in Trinidad and Tobago.

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Math can be a path to success after prison

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After his release from a New York prison in 2023, he moved to Rochester, New York, and is hoping to take the actuarial exam, which requires a lot of math. Since 2020, he has published four academic papers: three in math and one in sociology. He continues to study differential equations on his own.

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Call For Papers: Trauma Informed Anthropology

Teaching Anthropology

We also encourage those from cognate disciplines such as sociology, and from researchers using ethnographic methods. by 2nd April 2023. Acceptance decision made 17 th April 2023. Submissions via journal system by 14 th August 2023. We will also be using the solutions to develop guidelines for best practice.

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OPINION: This is no time to ban DEI initiatives in education; we need DEI more than ever

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That’s a good start, but to be transformative, nationally, content should be representative and include African American studies; Asian American studies; Latinx studies; Native American Studies; women, gender and sexuality studies; and sociology and other social sciences across the K-12 curriculum.

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Not All ‘Free College’ Programs Spark Increased Enrollments or More Degrees

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David Monaghan, an associate professor of sociology at Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania, has been digging into that question in a series of recent research studies. But is that what actually happens? And that can create another unintended side effect: straining resources at two-year colleges.

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OPINION: With a skeptical public, higher education must do a better job explaining why college is worth the investment

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economics, political science, sociology) and the natural and mathematical sciences. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), thus far in 2023, the unemployment rate in the U.S. dance, film, theater) to the humanities (e.g., English and other languages, history, religious studies), the social sciences (e.g., percent.

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