TeachThought

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Most formal academic ‘platforms’ like public schools and universities tend to parse knowledge into content areas–what is being learned–rather than how and why it is being learned. This, to a degree, reduces the function of pure philosophy.

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Critical Thinking Anthropology Psychology Public School 300

Anthropology News

DECEMBER 3, 2024

After his father’s death in 1939 when he was 6, the family moved to Greenwich Village, New York City, where he attended public school PS 81. He majored in anthropology at Yale, writing a thesis on African folktales. His early anthropological career was influenced by Claude Lévi-Strauss. The post J.

Anthropology 105

Anthropology Cultures History Public School 105

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2019

I hadn’t had many interactions with white people,” said Carter, now a senior majoring in anthropology and cell biology. “I Colleges, he said, require “people of different viewpoints: religious diversity, urban, rural, economic, public school, private school.”. I wanted to work on that: How do I code switch?

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Anthropology Private School Cultures Economics 111

Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 17, 2015

Anthropology professor at UNI, directs the New Iowans Center. e.g., 50 langages at Marshalltown HS, 100+ languages in Des Moines Public Schools. Children said ‘welcome to my neighborhood, Mr. Rogers.’ ’ The dreams and innocence of children will outlive us all. Life goes fast, my friends, use it well.

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Education K-12 Anthropology Advocacy 91

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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Social Studies Teaching Civics Advocacy 141

Anthropology News

DECEMBER 18, 2024

In American public schools, disabled youth with significant support and academic needs are often educated in separate programs. Tricia Niesz is the section contributing editor for the Council on Anthropology and Education. The post Disabled Worlds of Care in Middle School Classrooms appeared first on Anthropology News.

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Middle School Anthropology Public School Education 52

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

In a divisive political climate, public schools are taking on the challenge of helping refugees who feel unsafe in a country that seems increasingly intolerant of them. They then moved north to the Lewiston-Auburn area, where housing is cheaper, said Elizabeth Eames, a Bates College associate professor of anthropology.

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Heritage Middle School High School Government 83