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Notes from the UNI Education Summit

Dangerously Irrelevant

Let their dreams and longings be the starting point for lesson plans, not something that’s cordoned off or relegated to 20-minute enrichment. Anthropology professor at UNI, directs the New Iowans Center. If you do teach in those neighborhoods, don’t assume that children are empty vessels waiting to be filled.

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Connecting Local Communities to Paleoanthropology in Kenya

Sapiens

Among the many anthropological outreach efforts around the worldwhich are typically led from the top down or by cultural outsidersthis homegrown organization is unique. Teachers ask us to clarify the science for their lesson plans. Next come the questions.

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