NCHE

MARCH 25, 2024

Very few scholarly books, including those that prove to be the most important and influential, ever reach the public; journal articles remain invisible. Some of those articles are written for mass-market publications, while others focus on specific topics and outlets ranging from nursing to Black culture to material artifacts.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Hirsch, a professor emeritus of education and humanities at the University of Virginia, argues that democracy benefits when the citizenry shares a body of knowledge and history, which he calls cultural literacy. Hirschs Core Knowledge curriculum, which gained popularity in the late 1980s.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 28, 2018

Thanks to discoveries in the fields of organizational psychology and neuroscience, we can gain a better understanding of what human traits or behaviors are best suited for leadership, and why they are of benefit to the organizations and teams these individuals lead. Case in point.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 13, 2018

Of course, you have, as this is just a part of human nature. Growth in all aspects of school culture is something that has to be the standard. It begins with getting out of actual and perceived comfort zones to truly start the process of improving school culture.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished under Creative Commons. Twins have been rare in human history and for that reason can seem special. THE SWITCH TO SINGLETONS Modern humans overwhelmingly birth just a single childa rather large child with an even larger head.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 4, 2024

A recent study, published in the European Journal of Archaeology 1 , suggests these plaques may represent one of humanity's earliest attempts at recording genealogy—a non-verbal precursor to modern ancestry documentation. eyes, noses) weakens this claim.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 16, 2025

The human urge to collect and preserve objects, what Jacques Derrida calls archive fever , takeson special significance when there is no body to bury, no grave to visit. Anthropologist Christopher Tilley beautifully phrases that often in material culture [t]he thing is the person and the person is the thing.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 16, 2017

In many cultures the status quo is so entrenched that shifting mindsets and behaviors can be daunting. In his article he states the following: " The fast-paced, dynamic world of rapid change that used to be confined to distressed organizations is now everyone’s world. Being human is more important that being right all the time.

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Edthena

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Improving school culture is high on many school leaders’ lists of building priorities. But cultivating a strong school culture doesn’t happen without intentional thought and planning. Why is this key to improving school culture ? Check out the highlights of what we’ve been reading below, as well as links to the full resources.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

A multidisciplinary team of researchers explains historical, cultural, and ethical issues they considered while developing a 3D scan of a South African site to be shared with the world online. This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished under Creative Commons.

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Strange Maps

MARCH 3, 2025

But 21st-century culture wars are no Shakespeare play. Opposite moral universes At issue is a set of heatmaps from a scientific article exploring the moral circles of liberals and conservatives. Original article in full: Ideological differences in the expanse of the moral circle Adam Waytz e.a. Credit : A.

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Anthropology.net

JULY 6, 2024

Were humans or climate change responsible for these losses? The Role of Human Hunting Researchers from the Danish National Research Foundation's Center for Ecological Dynamics in a Novel Biosphere (ECONOVO) at Aarhus University have concluded that human hunting played a decisive role in these extinctions.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Shuck is a professor of human resource and organizational development at the University of Louisville and co-founder of the start-up OrgVitals. Right now, culture is probably the most important thing that leaders can be thinking about. McClure: How does engagement connect to a concept like workplace culture?

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Geography Education

MAY 1, 2024

’ This article highlights great, everyday examples that shows how cultural patterns and processes change and why they matter. Places and cultures are proud of what they see as their accomplishments that are foundational to their heritage. But perhaps we should reconsider our ideas about so-called ‘national dishes.’

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 1, 2018

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. Today’s college students may benefit from an exciting array of subjects to study.

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Political Science Now

AUGUST 26, 2024

The prize committee thought that the article was innovative, as it challenges our conceptions of valuable components of grading. The article focuses on how to assess learning gains through student effort and engagement as opposed to summative demonstration of knowledge only.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 15, 2024

This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished under Creative Commons. ✽ In 2013, Graeber wrote an article for the obscure left-wing magazine STRIKE! Such roles are prevalent in areas such as finance, admin, law, marketing, and human resources. titled “ On the Phenomenon of B t Jobs.”

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Anthropology News

DECEMBER 27, 2024

But, these tropical foods like banana and pineapple are not part of my heritage or my culture, so I don’t feel like I’m losing that identity by not consuming those foods. I always come at that at the individual level: each body is different from a human variation perspective. And that includes talking about nutrition.

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Sapiens

MARCH 12, 2024

On a visit to feline-friendly Turkey, an anthropologist considers what long-standing practices of caring for cats reveal about human societies. Several days later, after I successfully climbed the 5,000-meter mountain, I returned to the cafe to find the kittens just as eager to snuggle with me as I answered emails and worked on articles.

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Anthropology News

MARCH 25, 2025

Powers, scholar of Lakota life and culture, died on January 5, 2025, at the age of 90. At the time of his death, Bill had participated in Lakota (Teton Sioux) culture for 75 years. Through his academic articles and books, Powers made several enduring contributions to the discipline. He was born in St.

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Anthropology News

JULY 16, 2024

This summer, tthe AAA hosted three interns through the Virtual High School Internship , and throughout the summer, the interns engaged in a variety of enriching activities: Research Projects: They read scholarly research articles, took them apart to see how they were constructed, and communicated their methods and findings to diverse audiences.

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Teaching Anthropology

DECEMBER 16, 2023

In preparation for a class based my 2022 article in Teaching Anthropology, Toward a Pedagogy for Consumer Anthropology: Method, Theory, Marketing , I provided ChatGPT with the following prompt: Use the research findings below to create 12 marketing ideas for Duncan Hines cake mix.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 22, 2024

This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished under Creative Commons. ✽ The prevailing narrative of how humanity came about seemed straightforward enough: In what is today Europe, the last Neanderthals bowed out as Homo sapiens began arriving on the continent around 40,000 to 45,000 years ago.

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Sapiens

APRIL 3, 2024

Please note that this article includes images of human remains. This long-lost child, represented only by a lower jaw, was referred to as Ksâr ‘Akil 4 because it was the fourth human fossil discovered at the site of Ksâr ‘Akil in Lebanon, on the Eastern Mediterranean coast. No such cast was made of Ksâr ‘Akil 4.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 16, 2025

But tying us down strips our humanity away. Concluding Thoughts: Towards a Culture of Care Law 30490 the Law of the Elderlyin Peru stipulates that the countrys long-term care facilities should provide their residents with comprehensive care depending on their needs. Thats the only way for them to be safe.

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Zinn Education Project

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Article Indigenous Resistance Climate Crisis Timeline As young people study the climate crisis, they can draw ideas and inspiration from stories of resistance such as these entries from our new Climate Crisis Timeline. “What does it say that we all know Columbus’s name, but none of us knows the nationality of the people who were here first?

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Anthropology for Beginners

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Worldview Worldview is the set of cultural and psychological beliefs held by members of a particular culture; the term was borrowed from the German Weltanschauung. In Redfield’s book The Folk Culture of Yucatan (1941), he expressed an embryonic concern with the concept of world view.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Paul, who says she reads academic journal articles for fun, first encountered this argument when she came across a 1998 paper by philosophers Andy Clark and David Chalmers, who argued that the human mind extends into the world around it. But human brains are not like that. What's that look like?

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Sapiens

JANUARY 31, 2024

The morning of my 26th birthday, I woke up to incredible news for my field of evolutionary anthropology: For the first time, the study of human evolution won a Nobel Prize. In 1989, a University of Oxford team claimed to have extracted, for the first time, DNA from ancient human bones. It seems Berger believes H.

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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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Anthropology News

JANUARY 23, 2025

Among other things, Witness eschatological theology leads them to view all human governments as necessarily under the power of Satandespite the claims of the Zambian government enshrined in the Zambian constitution, for example, that Zambia is a “Christian nation.” This greatly impressed Mr. Cheng.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2020

But Ron Dahl, who directs the Institute for Human Development at the University of California, Berkeley, argues that adolescence is actually a second opportunity to invest in children because of the enormous brain development during this period. .” Culture is shaping it.”. Choose from our newsletters. Weekly Update.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This evidence can be drawn from various sources, such as research articles, data sets, personal observations, or historical examples. Biodiversity Loss: Students might claim the reasons for declining biodiversity, provide evidence from ecological studies, and ask questions about the consequences for ecosystems and human societies.

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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 ourselves and others?

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Digital Promise

MAY 6, 2019

This article originally appeared on Usable Knowledge from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. But there are also cultural specifications to what play looks like, when it’s appropriate, and who children play with. While learning through play is universal, what that looks like depends on the culture.

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ED Surge

JUNE 15, 2022

Burnout now dominates cultural conversations around school and work. Articles , podcasts and books about burnout are released every day. Education is a human service: it’s about putting others first. And only 12 percent of teachers report that they are very satisfied in their roles. Second, it is difficult to implement.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 22, 2021

In the report “Healing, Community, and Humanity: How Students and Teachers Want to Reinvent Schools Post-COVID,” Justin Reich and Jal Mehta consider that one of education’s biggest challenges in the years ahead will be to harness “the experience and urgency for change” and apply that energy to the sustained improvement of schools.

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