Anthropology.net

JANUARY 21, 2025

The team identified 20 specimens with definitive evidence of butchery, a hallmark of early hominin behavior. A Milestone in Human History The Grăunceanu site opens a new window into early human history, revealing that hominins were present in Europe far earlier than previously thought.

Humanities 98

Humanities History Cultures Research 98

Anthropology for Beginners

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Cultural Dimensions of health Contents style='mso-element:field-begin'> TOC o "1-3" h z u Cultural Dimensions of health. Cultural Dimensions of health Contents style='mso-element:field-begin'> TOC o "1-3" h z u Cultural Dimensions of health. A specialised branch of anthropology, i.e,

Cultures 100

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Moler's Musing

APRIL 11, 2025

Then we had them support it with evidence from the reading and make a historical or pop culture comparison. Starting with Language We began with a short but important conversation about how we talk about people in history. More importantly, the video gave a broader definition of resistance. It sparked some great thinking.

Primary Sources 98

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Anthropology for Beginners

JANUARY 3, 2021

In classical sense society refers to a group of people who share a common ‘culture’, occupy a particular territorial area and feel themselves to constitute a unified and distinct entity (Frisby and Sayer 1986). In this sense, society may denote the group’s population, its institutions and relations, or its culture and ideology.

Anthropology 130

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Anthropology.net

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

Archaeologists from the University of Colorado Boulder have explored the skeletal remains of ancient humans, shedding light on whether physical changes in bones can definitively reveal the early use of horses for transportation. in a culture known as the Yamnaya. Can Horseback Riding Change Your Skeleton?

Humanities 105

Humanities Archaeology Artifacts Museum 105

Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

Activity, context, and culture are central to this learning theory, which emphasizes the practical over the abstract. ” When learning happens in context, it reflects a time, place, and culture. This definition emphasizes the need for community, connection, and engagement. When people tackle everyday challenges, they learn.

Museum 168

Museum Humanities Cultures History 168

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

In the post-war boom of the 1950s, college students were confident of their economic futures and many studied liberal arts subjects such as English, history and philosophy. Unemployment dropped below 5 percent and the stock market soared, posting one of the best decades in history. History is seeing a similar collapse, down 35 percent.

Humanities 143

Humanities Economics History Psychology 143

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2020

It was definitely painted in the light that ‘these problems are in the past,’ and ‘America is the land of the free’ and ‘everyone is equal here.’ ”. Ankita Ajith is one of four college-age friends who are petitioning the Texas State Board of Education to create an antiracist American history curriculum.

Teaching 145

Teaching Elementary School Social Justice American History 145

ED Surge

APRIL 4, 2022

Depending on how you look at it, Ed Secretary Miguel Cardona’s assertion that “we’re closer to a reset in education than ever before” is either a beacon of hope at the end of a long, dark tunnel, or the opening of a new front in an increasingly polarizing culture war. A Focus on Teachers “Teachers matter,” to quote the definitive Rand study.

Education 142

Education Tutoring Cultures Leadership 142

ED Surge

OCTOBER 11, 2023

As of 2022, 38 states required a semester of civics education in high school; that same year, the federal government increased spending on “American History and Civics” fourfold. These are all great steps in the right direction, but I believe there is still a lack of respect for the importance of history and civics education.

Civics 129

Civics Education Civic Engagement K-12 129

ED Surge

MAY 24, 2023

The murder of George Floyd in 2020 changed American culture, in part by invigorating interest in diversity, equity and inclusion. The report, “ Equity: Definitions and Perspectives of U.S. Still, for the NWEA researchers, the takeaway from their report is that educators do share a broad definition of equity.

Professional Development 114

Professional Development Tradition Teaching History 114

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.

Anthropology 100

Anthropology Cultures Psychology Sociology 100

Anthropology for Beginners

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

i] History of the usage: The word “peasant” appears in English in late medieval and early modern times, when it was used to refer to the rural poor, rural residents, serfs, agricultural laborers, and the “common” or “simple” people. Some scholars emphasized generic cultural or “folk” characteristics of peasants. [vi]

Anthropology 100

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ED Surge

JULY 21, 2022

Dear Bonni, I'll be teaching a course on the history of Ireland later this year. Seeing as how art has been such a big part of Irish history and culture, I was thinking about something artistic in some way, but how on earth do I grade something creative? What do I do? I feel weird about testing them on genocide.”

Primary Sources 125

Primary Sources History World History Digital Resources 125

Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

For instance, if I was teaching Social Studies today… My students and I definitely would be tapping into an incredible diversity of online resources. It also offers a YouTube channel on which historians discuss their work , making history come alive for contemporary youth. government as well.

Social Studies 76

Social Studies Teaching Archiving Geography 76

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

For most of history, women had very little educational opportunity, and the college spots available to them were in gender-segregated schools with fewer resources. That starts with acknowledgment that our culture enforces gender norms that can hurt boys and girls. So, why is it that men are falling behind in higher education?

K-12 114

K-12 Cultures Economics High School 114

Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 21, 2024

And yet, that benign definition doesn’t explain why parents and communities started a standardized testing opt-out movement. Testing Wars in the Public Schools: A Forgotten History. Experimental Evidence on Teachers’ Racial Bias in Student Evaluation: The Role of Grading Scales. link] Reese, W. Harvard University Press. Stewart, A.

Pedagogy 248

Pedagogy Project-Based Learning Library Research 248

Anthropology News

AUGUST 11, 2024

Through an audio essay, inspired by John Akomfrah’s documentary “The Last Angel of History,” attention is drawn to South Africa’s evolving visual scene and its engagement with cultural nuances within the NFT AI space. Prompt generate a definition for NFT. Kagiso Mnisi: Is anything ever really new?

Cultures 98

Cultures History Tradition Anthropology 98

Anthropology News

OCTOBER 7, 2024

It represents a key example of how Tibetan refugees have established institutionalized, international education that preserves, advances, and shares Buddhist culture and philosophy. However, among community members, the relevance of linguistic diversity to the continuity of Tibetan Buddhist culture is a topic of considerable debate.

Heritage 98

Heritage Anthropology Education K-12 98

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Credit: Liz Willen/The Hechinger Report It also places the Rodriguez sisters on opposite sides of history: Ashley applied to college when schools in many states could still consider race, while Emily can expect no such advantage. We have so much history behind us as people of color,” Emily said. “So Of all U.S. That makes her angry. “We

High School 137

High School Leadership History Psychology 137

Anthropology for Beginners

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

One scholar claims that public administration has no generally accepted definition, because the scope of the subject is so great and so debatable that it is easier to explain than define. a field of inquiry with a diverse scope its fundamental goal.

Anthropology 100

Anthropology Government Political Science Cultures 100

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

I regularly offer a course at my university called Teaching the Holocaust: History and Memory. Responses usually include: a religion, a race, an ethnicity, a culture and a country. This definition explains that Judaism is first and foremost a religion. I begin this class by asking my students how they would define Judaism.

Ancestry 71

Ancestry History Human Rights Tradition 71

Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

This tendency is first expressed through its course design — three of the four core courses on “anthropology” while the last one on history being arguably a sisterly discipline. The course was thus designed to be “anti-definition.” For instance, we tried to unpack the history of tombstones based on their minute traces.

Anthropology 98

Anthropology History Humanities Tradition 98

The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2018

After all, enrollment in history, philosophy, literature and other majors considered to come under the umbrella of the liberal arts has been falling for decades. It appears true that the very definition of “liberal arts” is a problem. Colleges are shedding liberal arts programs and faculty. The challenge to us now is to prove it.”.

Humanities 96

Humanities Social Science History Economics 96

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

A photojournalist, she’s at work on an oral history book project, interviewing scores of public school students, from kindergarten through 12th grade, across the country. I also definitely want to be heavily involved in advocacy for young black youth, or, for youth in general, and just promoting student leadership.

Oral History 103

Oral History Advocacy Cultures Leadership 103

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Related: Culture wars on campus start to affect students’ choices for college About a fifth of Americans live in rural areas , according to the U.S. It’s definitely a big step for Chico to do something like this,” said Melendrez, whose hometown has about 1,500 people and whose high school class had about 15 students. “It Census Bureau.

Library 139

Library Civic Engagement Civics High School 139

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

A lot of the definitions for personalized learning mention differentiation, being student-centered, and engaging students – goals Koufman-Frederick, a veteran Massachusetts educator and administrator, said teachers have always aspired to. MAPLE’s definition of personalized learning emphasizes what is different today.

EdTech 87

EdTech Pedagogy Project-Based Learning Library 87

ED Surge

JULY 24, 2023

Du Bois, the need to prove that Black people are capable of the heights of cultural excellence was a large part of the reason for the focus on education. Board, part of the reason that actually eroded the system was a cultural rejection of Black excellence in education by at least part of the establishment. Board was a tactic.

K-12 19

K-12 Classroom Management Economics History 19

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 4, 2023

Ricky has a history of behavior problems in school, leading to detentions, Saturday school and occasional suspensions. But such a classification conflicts with its own discipline-related definition and state guidance. Last month he announced the creation of a public tip line to identify districts doing exactly this.

K-12 144

K-12 Tradition Charter School High School 144

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2019

In the decades following, the school became one of the city’s most prestigious educational and cultural institutions. “To Now she wants others to learn that history. Many charter groups came in wanting to change the culture of the schools they took over. But sometimes, McKneely said, his history and his test scores don’t matter.

Charter School 94

Charter School High School Cultures Public School 94

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

But there’s no common definition yet for what personalized learning actually is.”. EL’s definition puts two elements at its core: “expeditionary learning” projects and small groups of students called Crews who stick together from grade to grade and meet daily along with a teacher adviser to support and challenge each other.

Middle School 111

Middle School Library Elementary School Tradition 111

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2024

It also cut English chemistry, math, history, finance, accounting, art and other majors — 21 of them in all, or a third of everything it used to teach. Just after she finished the university cut the English program along with math, chemistry, biology, history. But since this performance, the university has ended its music program.

Education 131

Education High School Government Economics 131

ED Surge

AUGUST 15, 2022

A dual-language program is definitely a way to attract students.” The region’s geography and culture give the program key advantages when it comes to recruiting local students. So it's definitely been a challenge,” she says. All institutions are thinking of how they can branch into new student demographics,” she says. “A

K-12 104

K-12 Leadership Geography Cultures 104

The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

At one point, five kids in the class were on YouTube, watching videos that were definitely not part of the curriculum. Audrey Watters, author of a forthcoming book on the history of education technology. Eleven-year-old DeVonté Trask was busy playing a typing game on the computer. Where there’s money, that fuels the fire,” said Barbot.

Charter School 106

Charter School Tutoring Tradition Educational Technology 106

ED Surge

AUGUST 21, 2023

history at a high school in East Palo Alto while she wraps up her coursework. So for me, seeing what was going on with the culture wars and seeing all these teachers leaving after the pandemic, I felt like if any time is the right time to do this, it's now. This year, she’s teaching U.S. And it was a long time coming.

Professional Development 96

Professional Development Social Studies High School Teaching 96

Living Geography

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

Sadly, in many schools, teacher recruitment and retention and an ageing workforce (of which I am definitely one) means that many pupils are not taught by someone who not only completed a geography degree but has also avidly maintained their knowledge of the discipline since they paraded across a stage in a gown and mortar board.

Geography 52

Geography Teaching Pedagogy Library 52

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

I don’t like to lead with this about myself,” he said during a discussion group on Thucydides’ history of the Peloponnesian War, “but I’m a veteran and I’ve been to war.”. Maybe, just maybe, if [those] students were sitting in English and history class with men and women whom the U.S.

Political Science 109

Political Science Sociology High School Leadership 109