The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

More schools around the country, from Baltimore to Michigan to Colorado , are adopting these content-filled lessons to teach geography, astronomy and even art history. Some educators are calling for schools to adopt a curriculum that emphasizes content along with phonics.

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Living Geography

JANUARY 10, 2025

My Cultural Geography blog , which I started in 2007 while teaching the OCR Pilot GCSE (which had a cultural geography topic) is where I place posts (sometimes cross posting from here) related to cultural geography: music, books, art etc but also linked to the definition below: The study of the relationship between culture and place.

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Living Geography

MARCH 9, 2025

Cross-posting from my Cultural Geography and Geography on / in Film blogs. I saw this film a few weeks' ago and it's well worth seeing for those who like their music. It's based around interviews with the three surviving members and taped interviews with John Bonham.

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Living Geography

MAY 30, 2024

The ERAS tour is heading for the UK soon, and there's plenty of geography to be had in exploring the economic and environmental impact of the tour and associated music as well as the interesting cultural implications of the event: the demographics of a typical crowd etc. Liverpool is rebranding itself as Taylor Town. It is sold out.

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Living Geography

JANUARY 18, 2025

There's a lot of geography in this news item from the BBC News on the controversies surrounding beach cabanas on Australian beaches. The beach is of tremendous cultural significance to Australians, so this is being taken seriously. However, the number of these structures is causing some problems and there are contrasting views on them.

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Maitri Learning

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Cultural geography is about more than where things are located on the earth. It helps us recognize that we are beautifully diverse in our cultural choices and fundamentally the same in our humanity. Try greeting the children in the morning and say, "There's something new in the geography folders today. How do people live?

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Maitri Learning

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Cultural geography is about more than where things are located on the earth. It helps us recognize that we are beautifully diverse in our cultural choices and fundamentally the same in our humanity. Try greeting the children in the morning and say, "There's something new in the geography folders today. How do people live?

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Living Geography

MAY 28, 2024

A cross posting from my Geography Teaching blog. I've developed this activity for Year 7, as part of our unit on food geographies called 'Food for Thought'. It explores the rising price of food by focussing on one meal - a classic of UK food culture. It connects with conflict, climate change, globalisation and so much more.

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Society for Classical Studies

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The event will investigate how landscape features such as rivers, mountains, and other natural elements function as both connectors and boundaries, shaping cultural narratives and societal interactions. The exploration of liminal spaces, such as caves and groves, that create sacred or secluded environments and their cultural implications.

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TCI

MARCH 1, 2024

Geography education plays a pivotal role in cultivating global awareness and critical thinking. At TCI, we believe that geography class should be an immersive experience where students see the world through a geographer’s eyes. The much-loved Geography Alive! With Geography Alive!

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Geography Global Connections Global Perspectives Civics 59

Anthropology.net

MARCH 13, 2025

The Cultural Shift: How China Embraced the Domestic Cat The arrival of Felis catus was not merely a biological event; it marked a cultural shift in how Chinese society interacted with felines. 2025), continue to refine our understanding of how humans and felines have interacted across time and geography. 1 Han, Y., Doherty, S.,

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Archaeology Humanities Museum Geography 59

Geography Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

It gets users to analyze the cultural and physical landscapes, relate a stimulus to other places on Earth, use maps at a variety of scales, etc. Guess Where You Are is an alternative to Geogussr without all the bells and whistles, but it also has no time restrictions w But I’m also a history buff and I love a good twist on a geographic game.

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Living Geography

JANUARY 9, 2025

The OECD PISA program is a way to compare schools internationally and has previously been particularly influential in promoting the methods used in those countries that score highly, even if they don't translate well because of cultural differences. Climate change impacts every area of society and our lives, she says.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Fordham Institute found that elementary school students who studied more social studies, including geography, history and civics, scored higher on fifth grade reading tests. A September 2020 study from the Thomas B. Credit: Jason Bachman/Flickr.

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Geogramblings

APRIL 18, 2023

A piece of poetry performed at the Geographical Association Annual Conference 2023 TeachMeet titled ‘#NothingAboutUsWithoutUs (The Power of Geography Voice)’ The full TeachMeet recording with a range of teaching ideas and thoughts for the Geography teacher can be found on YouTube here.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

We could listen to podcasts on the geography of world cultures from Stanford University. We could search for pins on Native American history , Middle East cultures , Japanese history , government , geography , sociology , psychology , economics , and numerous other topics. We could play Fantasy Geography.

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Living Geography

JANUARY 23, 2025

The whole series is as relevant to geographers as it is to social and cultural historians. And there's an interview with U2s Bono about his deep affection for Seamus Heaneys poetry and the role of culture in the run-up to the historic Good Friday Agreement. The third and final episode in Simon Schama's new series explores landscape.

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C3 Teachers

MARCH 30, 2022

Image of New York State Archives and Museum in Albany, New York Making connections with cultural centers offers educators a measure of expertise outside their own content knowledge and pedagogical skill. These advantages suggest why connections with cultural centers should matter to educators, students and the local community.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 16, 2025

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. For them, its safety, sure, but for us, its humiliating.

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ACRE

JUNE 27, 2023

The Delta Cultural Center is a museum and educational complex that tells the story of a land and its people, capturing what makes the Arkansas Delta region unique. It is the mission of the Delta Cultural Center to preserve, interpret and present the cultural heritage of this legendary 27-county area.

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Anthropology for Beginners

JUNE 1, 2021

2 The methodological and theoretical use of spatiality within anthropology began with ethnographies that examined the relationship of architecture and culture. He criticizes world-systems analyses as being too simplified to reflect the complexity and fluidity of the “creolization” of postcolonial culture. 1 Racialized Space.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 9, 2021

School districts and charter networks are facing both tremendous challenges and, simultaneously, opportunities to design and implement effective, culturally-aligned systems to support historically marginalized students. We have an unprecedented opportunity to take action.

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O-Level Geography

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

A joint effort by businesses, such as Rolex, with local communities in the preservation of our natural and cultural heritage. What are the efforts made to preserve the natural and cultural heritage in Bali, Indonesia?

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Living Geography

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

There are also two posts which are relevant to my Geography in/on Film Blog on the representation of London in film. This places you right in the middle of the district, but is quiet and sound-proofed and once you step through the doors, the hubbub and activity of Brick Lane is gone. I'll mention them over there.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 3, 2020

We must use this crisis to create a better and more equitable system for all learners, regardless of race, socioeconomic status, geography, or learner variability. The Digital Learning Gap existed long before the pandemic; COVID-19 just brought it to light for the general public. 84 percent of teachers said VILS enhanced student engagement.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Despite hailing from vastly different geographies and circumstances, the dozens of educators we talked with shared that they often struggled in their own school communities with feeling both hyper-visible and invisible as Asian Americans. A participant at a Black Lives Matter protest in Las Vegas on May 30, 2020. on March 21, 2021.

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Moler's Musing

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Instead, I wanted them to understand the colony’s region, its geography, and its economy. Frayer Model Activity Next, I handed out paper Frayer models where students wrote a colony name in the middle and added information about its government, geography, economy, and religion. It even provided a knowledge base for each founder!

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 2, 2021

The students at Saint Leo will start with a course that takes a holistic look at the veteran experience, McLees said, and then move to a class that looks at “legendary warriors” from wars across time and geography outside the United States, and a course specifically focused on Native American veterans serving two sovereigns.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2019

In Baltimore City Public Schools, where about 80 percent of students are black, educators have long tried to incorporate African-American culture into their teaching. We never had the opportunity to celebrate the rich culture,” said Janise Lane, executive director of teaching and learning at Baltimore City Public Schools.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The University of Alaska system has scaled back more than 40 academic programs , including earth sciences, geography and environmental resources, sociology, hospitality administration and theater. There’s kind of this culture of apathy, especially where young people congregate,” said Singer.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 5, 2021

She predicts that because of the many intersecting factors impacting student success this year — geography, precarity, family situations — some students will need a lot more support next year and will struggle if pre-pandemic expectations remain in place. Bloom said that some students have not necessarily progressed the way they should.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 15, 2023

Geography and Culture Connect: After studying a foreign country, ask students to find similarities between their own community and the one they studied. Extend: Encourage discussion on how this theme might be relevant in different cultural or historical contexts.

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Geography Economics Critical Thinking Cultures 133

Anthropology News

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

He initially chose to study geography, but soon switched to anthropology, impressed by the introductory lectures in that field of study given by the renowned Africanist André Köbben. From 1973 to 1985, Blok was professor of cultural anthropology at the Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

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Geogramblings

JULY 26, 2024

Zoe Gilbank, the Climate Ambassadors regional hub manager for Yorkshire & Humber, joined Kit Marie for another Climate Ambassadors special episode of the Coffee & Geography podcast. A Lifelong Commitment to Sustainability Born and raised in Leeds, Zoe has always had a deep connection to her hometown.

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Anthropology.net

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Sakai noted, "The AI's ability to identify subtle signs of the Nazca glyphs that were previously missed by the human eye marks a significant leap forward in our understanding of this ancient culture.” The placement of the geoglyphs along pathways leading to Cahuachi further supports this interpretation. Orcas with knives. Sakai et al.,

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ED Surge

MARCH 13, 2024

With diverse perspectives, backgrounds, geographies, identities and areas of expertise, these writers offered a wide range of important stories — each one unique in its own way. I’ve struggled to balance representing the history and culture of my school with my desire to support our ongoing and ever-more-pressing need to adapt.

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Living Geography

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The GA and RGS(IBG) were awarded funding for a joint initiative called the Action Plan for Geography (2006-2011) whose Young Peoples Geographies project involved CEO Ian as a participating academic [see the project website archive on the Wayback Machine here ]. If you havent had a look at Follow the Things before, check it out.

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