Anthropology News
SEPTEMBER 12, 2024
Anthropology has been quite slow to embrace Helen Schwartzman’s insight in The Meeting: Gatherings in Organizations and Communities (1989) that meetings offer a vital window into collective human projects and organizations. Solitary confinement is torture, as defined by the United Nations and many of the world’s human rights organizations.
Civics U
APRIL 21, 2022
And what are natural rights? Natural rights are rights that are considered to be universal human rights that are granted by nature or God, not granted by society or government and thus not to be revoked by society or government. Her response generated some pointed discussion and garnered some coverage in the press.
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The Hechinger Report
APRIL 9, 2018
How refreshing it was to encounter a student’s civic-mindedness in chemistry class! And he’s right. The availability of safe drinking water — a basic human right — is likely to be called into question again and again in communities across the country.
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 21, 2017
The Rethinking Schools editors add that for teachers, the challenge is to help young students to acquire the “critical dispositions and questioning” skills that “set the stage to encourage children to act on what they’ve learned — to have ‘civic courage,’ to act as if we live in a democracy.”
Anthropology News
JANUARY 24, 2024
Throughout the Cold War, campaigns of discreditation against capitalist alternatives flourished in the United States, and identity-based and human-rights-focused campaigns became more prominent.
Zinn Education Project
MARCH 29, 2024
The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) Human Rights Committee of 20 members formed a study group that is embedded into their regular monthly meetings. Some of their ongoing projects include examining book collections, offering workshops on gender and racism, and creating a curriculum for teaching local Black history all year long.
Zinn Education Project
JANUARY 15, 2024
Or march to a local civic building. A teacher was the MC, the memorial director (who is also a SNCC veteran) spoke, and then teachers read their pledges. See photos and stories about the D.C. events in 2021 and 2022. Walk on a route with signs to raise awareness about the threats to education. Music and chants are a plus. Walking tours.
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