Anthropology News

JULY 20, 2024

The stranger as a general category of analysis stands out within the social sciences precisely for what Georg Simmel dubbed this “constellation” of “near[ness] and far[ness] at the same time.” Filoxenia is splashed across newspaper articles , tourism websites , and travel blogs.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 24, 2022

Called Crypto, Culture, & Society , the group organizes courses that bring knowledge from the arts, humanities and social sciences into conversations about the Web3 world being dreamed into reality. That’s an idea pitched in a recent blog post co-written by Saraf and entrepreneur Scott Meyer.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 1, 2018

These founders, hailing from leading universities as well as the US Atomic Energy Commission, IBM Corp and New York Life Insurance, knew that connecting the humanities and sciences helps us make informed judgments about our control of nature, ourselves and our destiny. And thus our course, The Impact of Materials on Society (IMOS) , was born.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Our new video illustrates a few possibilities: mathematical reasoning in elementary school by creating algorithms; social sciences in middle school by working with data; and physical sciences in high school by using simulations. Supporting Computational Thinking in K-12 Public Schools.

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Society for Classical Studies

OCTOBER 24, 2024

After their visit, scholars will write a piece for the Future of the Past Lab’s blog. The Center for Premodern Studies (CPS) is the home for collaborative scholarship and outreach in the historical humanities and social sciences at the University of Minnesota.

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Jonathan Firth

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

For the past few years there have been a small number of funded teacher training posts specifically in Psychology or Social Sciences south of the border, and since 2016, the University of Strathclyde has run Scotland’s first – and so far, only – PGDE in Secondary Psychology. Psychology – background reading list.

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Jonathan Firth

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Check out this blog post for more about the benefits of studying psychology at school level. The PGDE can also prepare you for work in the FE sector (some of our students do placements in colleges), or you can alternatively complete a TQFE (a training course aimed specifically at this sector) in Social Science teaching.

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Anthropology 365

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Anthropology is the study of humans, or as Dr. Jon Marks says: “the study of who we are and where we come from.” ” I consider it to be the study of humans and the variety of relationships humans have. These relationships include some of the most obvious: kinship, communities, institutions, businesses, and religions.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Writing-to-learn activities incorporated in math, science, and social science improved the quality of learning in those subjects (Graham, Kiuhara & MacKay, 2020). The lack of focus on writing in education is baffling, given the positive impacts of writing on learning.

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Political Science Now

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

My research on the impact of legislative resources on policy adoption is published in Social Science Quarterly, 3 Streams Blog , and featured on The Academic Minute. I recently published a textbook on Missouri Politics, titled, “Missouri Politics: Government in the Show-Me State.”

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TCI

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Social studies is more than just a subject—it provides the foundation for understanding and engaging with the world around us. According to the National Council for Social Studies (NCSS) , social studies is the integrated study of social sciences and humanities to promote civic competence.

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MPSA

MARCH 30, 2022

Since that time, I have not had the opportunity teach Introduction to Political Science again. However, this semester I have begun teaching a new Teaching Civic Engagement course for Social Science Education majors seeking to be middle- and high-school teachers. About the Author Michael A. Bob Grover and Rob Catlett. 

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MPSA

APRIL 11, 2019

One of our sister social sciences—economics—is among the least liberal of the academic disciplines. Smith is a Professor of Political Science at Emporia State University where he teaches classes on state and local politics, campaigns and elections, political philosophy, legislative politics, and nonprofit management.

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