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Teaching Syndemics

Teaching Anthropology

Secondly, syndemic health conditions adversely interact through various biological or psychological mechanisms or pathways. YouTube offers access to numerous video presentations on syndemics by invited government, academic, and organizational speakers. Why teach syndemics?

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If I was teaching Social Studies today…

Dangerously Irrelevant

We’d also have access to historical documents from the British Museum – such as notes from an English merchant in Syria in 1739 – and to the prisoner of war archives from the Red Cross. National Archives, and maybe dig through the 5.3 million book images from the Internet Archive. . Washington University in St.

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‘A drastic experiment in progress’: How will coronavirus change our kids?

The Hechinger Report

Play facilitates cognitive development, said James Coan, a psychology professor at the University of Virginia who studies the neuroscience of human connection. James Coan, a psychology professor at the University of Virginia. Photo by Interim Archives/Getty Images. And yet “adults are not very good playmates,” he told me.

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OPINION: The invisible toll of mass incarceration on childhood development

The Hechinger Report

The rules governing the visit felt punitive: no toys, no candy, no touching. Related: Early Education Archives. Visiting times should be increased, parents should be allowed to hold their children during these interactions, and more financial and psychological supports should be offered to people reentering society after prison.

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As a 6-year-old, Leona Tate helped desegregate schools. Now she wants others to learn that history

The Hechinger Report

Related: How the federal government abandoned the Brown v. The four girls who desegregated New Orleans schools were selected from a pool of 134 black students who applied and were evaluated academically and psychologically by the school board. Board decision. They wanted to make sure I was on target.” Reached at his home in St.

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Gaza’s Deaf Community in the Face of Genocide

Sapiens

Read more from the SAPIENS archives: “ Living as Stateless Palestinians in Jordan.” Even for those deaf Palestinians whose families do know sign language or share a kind of homesign system , blackouts due to power cuts by the Israeli government make communication in a visual-gestural language even more difficult at night.

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

ED Surge

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. and elsewhere.