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Black Teachers: A Pedagogy of Organized Resistance

Zinn Education Project

As an interdisciplinary scholar, he specializes in 19th and 20th century African American history, history of education, and theories of race and power in education. Givens is the author of Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. The post Black Teachers: A Pedagogy of Organized Resistance appeared first on Zinn Education Project.

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His Teachers Showed Him Why History Matters. Now He Wants to Pay That Forward.

ED Surge

Brown loves — and has long loved — learning about history, civics, geography and government, in part because he had teachers who brought infectious energy and enthusiasm to those lessons. Eager to build a career out of his interest in social studies, he thought about museum curation, archival work and practicing law.

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Our History Is Not Lost: Resources for Learning and Teaching the Fullness of Black History

ED Surge

Resources for learning and teaching the fullness of Black history all year round. I started learning about the diaspora through books and archives when I attended a historically Black university (HBCU) for graduate school. Humanizing pre-colonial history catapulted a spiritual reckoning and unlocked a familiar wholeness for me.

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LGBTQ+ Histories of the U.S. Summer Institute

ASHP CML

In July, thirty secondary school teachers joined ASHP for an NEH-funded summer institute focused on topics in LGBTQ+ history and culture, discussion of pedagogy, and an introduction to historical documents and materials for classroom use. to gather at the Graduate Center and to visit New York City archives and cultural sites.

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AI for Learning: Experiments from Three Anthropology Classrooms

Anthropology News

Together, these experiments contribute to ongoing conversations about the pedagogical value of AI tools, core competencies needed for AI literacy, and pedagogies that prepare students (and professors) to effectively, creatively, and ethically engage AI in the work of anthropology.

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Why Our Students Aren’t (and Can’t Be) Historians

4QM Teaching

Generic accounts of thinking skills often treat document reading and analysis as the bread-and-butter of history teaching and learning. This mistake — the narrowing of history pedagogy to “document analysis” — reflects another mistake: confusing novices for experts. — that’s how we learn history.

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

ED Surge

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. and elsewhere.