The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2020

These have included anthropology, philosophy, languages, art, theater, music and women’s and African American studies. Will history repeat? Former Florida governor and now senator Rick Scott set up a task force that recommended public universities charge more for “non-strategic majors” such as history and English. “Is

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Anthropology for Beginners

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Social (psychology, sociology, communications, history, cosmology) 4. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland 90, no. Redfield, Robert 1956 Peasant Society and Culture: An Anthropological Approach to Civilization. Mendelson 1956): 1. Natural (biology, chemistry, physics) 3.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 1, 2018

It is not a “history course for engineers.” A wide range of departments including engineering, anthropology, classics, history, English, sociology and philosophy participate in its teaching. The course is different from other freshman-oriented courses. And it is not an “engineering course for humanists.”.

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Strange Maps

AUGUST 12, 2023

His book, The Races of Europe (1899), is a prime example of this pseudoscientific approach to anthropology, but it was relatively non-controversial at the time. A lecturer on sociology at Columbia and a professor of economics at Harvard, he was particularly influential in U.S. The maps shown here are all the work of William Z.

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Strange Maps

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

This is a huge step forward from the mutually exclusive, previous scenarios, towards a more plausible model that integrates archaeological, anthropological, and genetic findings.” Note the non-Indo-European language islands in Europe, representing Finnish, Estonian, Hungarian, and Basque. Strange Maps #1220 Got a strange map?

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Anthropology for Beginners

APRIL 29, 2021

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Definition: Urban Anthropology examines the social organization of the city, looking at the kinds of social relationship and pattern of social life unique to cities and comparing their different cultural and historical contexts. Roberts 1978).

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Anthropology for Beginners

DECEMBER 9, 2021

A specialised branch of anthropology, i.e, medical anthropology has engage in both basic research into health and healing systems and applied research aimed at the improvement of therapeutic care in clinical settings or community public health programs in prevention and disease control.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2024

That was apparent in January when the Board of Governors for Florida’s state university system, in approving regulations for the new anti-DEI law, also removed sociology from the list of courses that meet general education requirements. (On On the social platform X, Education Commissioner Manny Diaz berated sociology as “woke ideology.”)

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Anthropology for Beginners

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

DECENTRALISATION and ANTHROPOLOGY Decentralisation is the process of dispersing decision-making governance closer to the people and/or citizen. It includes the dispersal of administration or governance in sectors or areas like engineering, management science, political science, political economy, sociology and economics.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2023

About 3,500 people attended the conference, among them K-12 and higher ed educators who teach the subjects that constitute social studies — including history, civics, geography, economics, psychology, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, law and religious studies.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 6, 2025

A scholarly book or article about history or philosophy counts. So does a local oral-history project, an art exhibit, or a dinner-table conversation about books, movies, or music. Like air, humanities-driven work is everywhere but taken for granted, so much a part of life its easy to overlook.

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