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The Politics and Limits of Aspiration

Anthropology News

In addition to academic requirements like high-level mathematics and science courses (required for many tertiary tracks but not always available or required at township schools ), Launch accomplishes its mission through unique pedagogies intended to expand students’ aspirations and propel them toward “fulfilling futures.”

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Caring for and through Language: Tibetan Refugees and Heritage Language Education in Canada

Anthropology News

Beginning in the 1960s, with extensive foreign aid, the Tibetan exile government in India built an infrastructure of Tibetan medium schools specifically for Tibetan refugee children. Sarah Muir and Michael Wroblewski are the section contributing editors for the Society for Linguistic Anthropology.

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Luther Gerlach

Anthropology News

He then served in the US Army in for two years (1952–54) and as a government researcher in Germany before earning a PhD in cultural anthropology in 1961 from the University of London, with certificates in African and Islamic law and Swahili at the School of African and Oriental Studies (SOAS) in 1958.

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“I Don’t Want to Be Taught and Graded by a Robot”: Student-Teacher Relations in the Age of Generative AI

Anthropology News

The Spider in the Room Questions about teaching and learning are not new, especially in anthropology. Further, varied government and regulatory agencies have pressed for widespread AI literacy training. And how can a better understanding of the student position inform higher education’s response to GenAI? For example, H.R.

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GSA 2023 Keynote Speech: STRIVING FOR MENTAL WELL-BEING IN ACADEMIA

Anthropology 365

In my discipline of anthropology—a field inherently concerned with both cultural and biological diversity—there is an unsettling paradox. The movement to “decolonize pedagogy” is the process of moving away from representing our disciplines with traditional sources – mostly White men.

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Transitioning with Grace and Gratitude  

Anthropology News

I worked alongside teachers within an engaged ethnographic case study to reflect on their circumstances and take ownership of their pedagogy through observations of their teaching and teacher-training workshops, which included co-designing a curriculum. The post Transitioning with Grace and Gratitude appeared first on Anthropology News.

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As Humanities Fight for Support, New Journal Aims to Celebrate Their Role in Public Life

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That includes, the editors note, anthropology, archaeology, classics, cultural studies, disability studies, ethnic studies, gender studies, history, law, linguistics, literary studies, performing arts, religious studies, philosophy, postcolonial studies, queer studies, psychology, sociology, visual arts, and women's studies.