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Want More Innovation? Try Connecting the Dots Between Engineering and Humanities

Digital Promise

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. This article is a part of The Conversation’s series on unique courses. For other articles in this series, read here and here. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license.

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When students are better role models than school leaders

The Hechinger Report

Students need to be able to express themselves; the freedom to do so is not only a question of their intellectual development but also one of human rights. In addition, graduation ceremonies comprise a major part of a school’s culture; they differentiate one school from the next and establish norms and values.

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4 Inspiring Black Humanitarians

Studies Weekly

He believed that African Americans should embrace their heritage and culture and work together to overturn oppression. To the end of his life, Du Bois never stopped his research, and he published dozens more books, essays, and articles on his own in pursuit of freedom. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

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Teaching for Black Lives Study Groups

Zinn Education Project

The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) Human Rights Committee of 20 members formed a study group that is embedded into their regular monthly meetings. The Portland (Oregon) study group of early childhood educators assessed their home visitation questions to make them more culturally relevant.

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Qatar 2022: Controversial geographies And data

Geogramblings

I cannot hope to cover the myriad of issues in any detail with any justice, so this post is going to be a mixture of personal opinion (mostly as a member of the LGBTQ+ community), some things to for educators to think about, and some signposting to various articles and opinions. Stick with it. Read, think, reflect, share.

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Learn how Political Science Students are Improving Wikipedia

MPSA

million words to Wikipedia, worked on over 4,200 different entries, and created 531 entirely new articles in a range of topics related to Political Science. In a course on African Politics , students created new articles on Voting rights in Nigeria as well as Child soldiers in Uganda.

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Anthropology against Behavioral Science

Anthropology News

While these trends have been underway in the subfields of global health and economic development for some time, increasingly similar demands are being made for the incorporation of SBS into the fields of democracy, human rights, and governance (DRG). In this article, I begin with a brief overview of SBS in DRG work.