Anthropology News

MARCH 31, 2025

We viewed the opportunity to bring HT94 to a campus museum as a broader opportunity to bring together a campus coalition interested in im/migration studies and border studies, bridging across traditional university silos by uniting staff, faculty, students from across campus around a common objective.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

The courses covered many domains—design, medicine, the environment—but most featured an anthropological flair, and most of the organizers had an anthropology background. I titled my course—one of the four core courses—“Tears of the Earth: An Anthropological Thinking Experiment.”

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Teaching Anthropology

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Teaching prompted us to reassess our skills and rediscover the motivations that led us to pursue archaeology originally. Watching these moments in the field school was eye-opening and convinced us that teaching isn’t just about sharing knowledge; it’s also about keeping our own love for learning alive. Orchard at its core.

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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Through these practices, they could not only evoke the flavors of home and pass down traditions but also begin mending wounds left by separation. Nala: Care as Reconceptualizing Tradition Payasam is the sweet, so it has to be sweet, Nala says of this creamy tapioca dessert, traditionally made for celebrations. Im teaching her!

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Anthropology News

MARCH 4, 2025

However, this does not mean that they have lost interest in the language and traditions of their parents and grandparents. In addition, these courses are accompanied by community events, such as a religious community dinner celebrating the holiday of Pessah/Passover in the traditional Tunisian Jewish manner.

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Teaching Anthropology

AUGUST 14, 2024

By Erin-Lee Halstad McGuire, Department of Anthropology, University of Victoria, Canada We are all familiar with Spurgeon’s adage: “begin as you mean to go on.” The value of icebreakers in teaching is well-studied, with recent scholarship highlighting how they can ease anxiety in student interactions (e.g. Zulkifli, C.

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Teaching Anthropology

AUGUST 14, 2024

By Erin-Lee Halstad McGuire, Department of Anthropology, University of Victoria, Canada We are all familiar with Spurgeon’s adage: “begin as you mean to go on.” The value of icebreakers in teaching is well-studied, with recent scholarship highlighting how they can ease anxiety in student interactions (e.g. Zulkifli, C.

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Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 13, 2020

Can teachers who are teaching an AP course use blended learning models and cover the extensive curriculum? I teach AP Psychology, blended and traditional, at a high school in the northwest suburbs of Chicago. I get asked this question frequently as a blended learning coach. My answer is a resounding “Yes!”

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Anthropology News

JULY 15, 2024

Issued: July 15, 2024 Pitches due: rolling until November 1, 2024 First drafts due: 3 weeks after pitch decision Submit Here Anthropology News invites submissions on the forms of care that permeate human and nonhuman worlds. How do we care for objects, archives, words, history, traditions, animals, plants, ideas, and obligations?

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

The research, published in Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 1 , presents compelling micro-archaeological evidence that fire was not just a survival tool but a defining cultural trait of the Gravettian tradition. Sitting around a fire would have been a time for storytelling, teaching, and reinforcing group identity.

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Teaching Anthropology

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

By Erin-Lee Halstad McGuire, Department of Anthropology, University of Victoria, Canada. The textbook I use has a fairly traditional coverage of archaeology. Image: Group work banner image by StockSnap from Pixabay The post An Archaeological Adventure first appeared on Teaching Anthropology.

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Anthropology News

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

as a pracademic who teaches a multidisciplinary undergraduate course focused on entrepreneurship, and as a social scientist whose passion resides in studying the intersections of race, space, and ethnicity. In autoethnographic work, the researcher conducts anthropological fieldwork on himself/herself/themselves and their experiences.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 29, 2024

Issued: January 29, 2024 Response deadline: February 23, 2024 Pitch responses: February 29, 2024 First drafts due: March 27, 2024 For our third issue of 2024, Anthropology News is delving into the burgeoning field of artificial intelligence (AI) and its intricate relationship with human reality. And is humanity shaping AI?

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 15, 2024

The late David Graeber was an American professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics. Graeber’s book is conversational in style, drawing on history, literature, sociology, anthropology, and pop culture to support his arguments. Read more from the archives: “ The Anthropology Professor in an Amazon Warehouse.”

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TeachThought

JULY 2, 2024

Its enduring significance stems from its profound critique of traditional teaching and learning methods. Freire’s work critiques traditional pedagogical practices and offers a compelling vision for a more just and participatory education system. Here, no one teaches another, nor is anyone self-taught.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 10, 2020

Studies learning activity systems (not just one component)—such systems that integrate materials, technologies, supports, teacher professional development, assessments, leadership engagement, and other elements required to change teaching and learning. What Do We Teach When We Teach the Learning Sciences? Where to Learn More.

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Anthropology News

OCTOBER 7, 2024

The central goal of the Tibetan exile government’s schools is to instruct children in Tibetan language, history, and Buddhist culture, given that, within Tibet, the Chinese government limits access to traditional Tibetan monastic educat ionand criminalizes advocacy for secular Tibetan medium education.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2022

If a student already knew the material before taking the class and got that A, “they didn’t learn anything,” said Greene, who also is director of the university’s Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning. historians teaching them in their fancy high schools.”. By comparison, she said, higher-income classmates “had Ph.D.

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Sapiens

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

I leave for class early, saving enough time to sit outside by the anthropology building and watch people go by. Does someone teach them to start conversations like this? Making fresh corn tamales is part of the author’s family traditions. Why are we in anthropology classes learning about ourselves?” Sure thing!”

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Anthropology News

JUNE 18, 2024

Proponents point to its potential to personalize learning and foster innovative teaching approaches. The Spider in the Room Questions about teaching and learning are not new, especially in anthropology. Teachers should be equipped to integrate AI into their teaching”).

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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

A refusal to release myself from the discomfort—a commitment to remaining present—also allows my own vulnerability to blur the traditional line between care provider and patient. The post Birth Is Hot and Sweaty, and So Am I: Accessing Patient Care through Shared Discomfort appeared first on Anthropology News.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Here is what we learned: Student learning in hybrid and traditional classrooms is comparable. We found that faculty-reported gains in student learning in Teagle-funded hybrid or online courses were comparable to gains in traditional classrooms, in line with research findings to date. Weekly Update. Future of Learning. Higher Education.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2022

People of traditional college age, between 18 and 25, are also in the age group that is more likely than any other to experience mental illness , and most mental health conditions develop by the age of 24. She completely lacked interest in and motivation for her anthropology coursework, which she had previously loved.

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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Despite minimizing traditional Buddhist scripture-chanting and rituals, I found Tzu Chi members were deeply religious, and their daily activities were highly ritualized. The Taiwan government now champions multiculturalism and the teaching of indigenous languages and cultures in the schools.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 24, 2024

Thirteen US residents—Black, white, and brown—mixed among about 30 community members sipping tinto , a traditional sweet Colombian coffee, and listening to testimonies of those who had been threatened or lost loved ones due to illegal armed groups or mining projects. What is solidarity? Perhaps above all, it is to be lived.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Outside of anthropology, he became known for his popular salvos on work and democracyincluding the breakthrough publication Debt: The First 5,000 Years and his activism within the Occupy Wall Street protests in 2011. At the time of his death, we were co-editing a book series at Pluto Press called Anthropology, Culture, and Society.

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Anthropology 365

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

This is intensified by current debates restricting academic freedom, such as the legislative restrictions on teaching subjects like critical race theory. In my discipline of anthropology—a field inherently concerned with both cultural and biological diversity—there is an unsettling paradox. However, there is more that we can do.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2024

Robert Cassanello at the University of Central Florida in Orlando — one of the nation’s largest campuses with 70,000 students — warned in red ink on the syllabus for his graduate seminar on the Civil Rights Movement (as for all courses he teaches) that he “will expose you to content that does not comply with and will violate” anti-DEI laws.

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Anthropology 365

MARCH 11, 2024

Through a blend of traditional ethnography, ethology, and GIS mapping, the study explores the dynamics of interactions at three primary sites across Texas, emphasizing the mutual shaping of shared spaces and the significance of negotiation. I am thankful to the faculty in the anthropology department at UTSA.

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Anthropology News

JUNE 27, 2024

AI is shaping our everyday lives, but as anthropology teaching faculty, most of our recent AI-related conversations have had a singular focus: how to deal with generative AI tools like ChatGPT in the classroom. Below, we present case studies from three anthropology courses using three different sets of AI tools.

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Anthropology News

MARCH 21, 2024

He obtained his formal education in Caracas, and then California, before moving to the University of Chicago to further his studies in anthropology, ultimately obtaining his doctorate at the University of Amsterdam. Morris ) The post Rafael Sánchez Cacheiro appeared first on Anthropology News. Patricia Spyer and Rosalind C.

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Anthropology News

DECEMBER 18, 2024

The limits of collections research and digital access flashed like a neon sign when we first partnered as graduate students for an undergraduate course on museum anthropology and community collaboration. As university professors, we return to questions of teaching care as we develop institutional spaces for object-based student learning.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

The simple message that majoring in the humanities pays off is being pushed aggressively by this university and a handful of others; they hope to reverse decades of plummeting enrollment in subjects that teach skills employers say they need from graduates but arent getting. The University of Arizona campus.

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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

In my first Presidents Column for Anthropology News , I described World on the Move , still in its incubation stage: Building on AAAs past achievements andlooking to the future, I expect to helpbringanthropology more fully into the public conversation about critical local and global social issues and policy debates.

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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

I finally got a job teaching English!” I replied, and she filled me in on her new position teaching English for a small private university in town. Despite this, English-language policies continue to proliferate, and teachers must teach a subject in which they often are not proficient. Reyna, that’s wonderful!

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 19, 2020

Their disruption of this genteel neighborhood exemplified the growing anger of students like these, who at Brown and elsewhere have been demanding higher stipends and better benefits in exchange for the work they do as teaching and research assistants. Before the coronavirus pandemic, there seemed little chance they’d get anywhere.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 6, 2025

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.

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