The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2020

It was two weeks before the university would be abruptly shut down by the coronavirus, and every corner of the campus seemed jampacked — except this quiet classroom, where a handful of students were studying the societies and cultures of the Caribbean. Will history repeat? Related: How the last recession affected higher education.

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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]

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2019

A recent report on learning by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine demonstrates that the culture of our families and communities plays a major role in how we learn. We understand things in slightly different ways because of our histories and backgrounds. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

It also offers a YouTube channel on which historians discuss their work , making history come alive for contemporary youth. The UC Davis California History Social Science Project frames current events within their historical context , connecting students’ present to the past. We’d subscribe to feeds and listen to podcasts from the U.S.

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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. Subjects such as history teach about the past as a lens into the present, she said.

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C3 Teachers

APRIL 10, 2022

You can address history, economics, sociology, you know all the facets of social studies. Some of the major goals were to address history told from multiple perspectives and told through a culturally responsive lens. You can do that through the Inquiry Design Model. We don’t use that word lightly in the district.

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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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The Hechinger Report

JULY 14, 2022

Sociologist Ann Swidler calls these strategies “ cultural repertoires.” And even while many parents aspire to have their children go to college, our cultural repertoires for attaining that goal are different. Related: OPINION: We must do a better job of teaching Asian American history in our schools.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 1, 2018

So, separating and prioritizing STEM from humanities ignores the fact that we live in a complex social and cultural world. It is not a “history course for engineers.” A wide range of departments including engineering, anthropology, classics, history, English, sociology and philosophy participate in its teaching.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2018

That is precisely why business students need to learn psychology, history, sociology, culture and art. Students unearth a culture and a different way of thinking when learning another language. This can help them appreciate diversity in the form of different cultures, backgrounds and experiences.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

Holloman, says the university’s “newness and brashness” made it easier to create a culture supportive of black students. We have a culture that supports you,’ ” said Holloman. It means I have a level of comfort here,” said Lewis, a junior sociology major. Georgia State’s dean of students, Darryl B. Photo: Terrell Clark.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 25, 2016

The idea is “that teachers who share a linguistic and cultural background with their students have a unique role to play in urban schools,” according to program director Laura Delgado. But if Delgado is right about the benefits for Nashville classrooms of a cultural match between teachers and students, the program has arrived just in time.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2023

It was the first lesson in a school week that would take her kids through memoir writing, an introduction to division and research on Indigenous history, each activity carefully curated by Snyder. But while school culture is important, it can’t alter some of the structural issues driving people from the profession, such as low pay.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

In his sociology class, the Western Way of War, he felt it might add to the conversation. “I 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.”. “A

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

Courses range from “The Sociology of Sport” to “Songwriting and Singing in a Prison Choir” and are primarily taught in person through the University of Iowa or through an associate-degree program with Iowa Central Community College.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2017

Although I was deeply unmotivated, I enrolled in Passaic County College where I excelled in English, psychology and sociology and did well in math and science. Boot Camp was a culture shock. At Rutgers, I majored in history and minored in literature. I was nurtured by a History Department that was concerned about my progress.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Since the residence’s opening in 2018, 21 CSUF students have been given safe, secure housing with wraparound services provided by formerly incarcerated staff members who reinforce a culture of striving and mattering. Jimmie Conner is an undergraduate at California State University, Fullerton, studying sociology and business.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

But he spoke up in Romantic Literature, and he helped other students with their African American Religious History papers. She sat in the front row for the sociology and biology seminars, but couldn’t concentrate in a room with more than 30 classmates. psychology class. By the second semester, Barnes was on academic probation.

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Strange Maps

AUGUST 12, 2023

The divisions they display for the most part don’t correspond to any familiar type of boundaries — political, natural, or cultural. A lecturer on sociology at Columbia and a professor of economics at Harvard, he was particularly influential in U.S. So what do they denote? ” ( Credit : William Z. railway policy.

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Strange Maps

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Using phylogenetic analysis — phylogenetics is the study of evolutionary relationships over time, be they organisms or languages — they have reconstructed a vocabulary for PIE that gives us an idea of the culture of the people who spoke it. Were the Yamnaya the original Indo-Europeans?

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Anthropology for Beginners

DECEMBER 9, 2021

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2024

That was apparent in January when the Board of Governors for Florida’s state university system, in approving regulations for the new anti-DEI law, also removed sociology from the list of courses that meet general education requirements. (On On the social platform X, Education Commissioner Manny Diaz berated sociology as “woke ideology.”)

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Anthropology for Beginners

APRIL 29, 2021

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Anthropology for Beginners

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

It includes the dispersal of administration or governance in sectors or areas like engineering, management science, political science, political economy, sociology and economics. In management science there are studies of the ideal size of corporations, and some in anthropology and sociology study the ideal size of villages.

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Political Science Now

JANUARY 9, 2025

Johnson is a tenured Instructor in Political Science, History, and Geography at Minnesota State Community and Technical College in Moorhead, MN. in Sociology from Stanford University and a Ph.D. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Southern Illinois University, an M.A. in Political Science from Richland Community College.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2024

She’s a sociology professor at the University of Virginia and coauthor of the book Academically Adrift. Catherine Epstein: We have the papers of some relatively famous alums, and then we have lots of information just on the history of the college. Kirk: Nicola Courtright teaches art history at Amherst.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 11, 2021

A culture built upon a false racial hierarchy can only be maintained through lies, force and duplicity — all of which are on full display in the asinine attempts to ban critical race theory. Related: Rewrite the history textbooks, or the white supremacist violence will continue.

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Zinn Education Project

MARCH 7, 2024

Jesse Hagopian: The Condemnation of Blackness is a history of the construction of the idea of Black criminality in the making of the United States, and it reveals the influence of this pernicious myth rooted in statistics on our society and our sense of self. Muhammad: I actually think, T. They defined them as crimes of environmental stigma.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 6, 2025

A scholarly book or article about history or philosophy counts. So does a local oral-history project, an art exhibit, or a dinner-table conversation about books, movies, or music. Ortiz, directs the MA in Engaged and Public Humanities Program at Georgetown University, where hes a professor of Latinx literatures and cultures.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

At stake is not only whether people will be able to interpret Shakespeare, say advocates of subjects including English, history, language, philosophy, and the visual and performing arts. We didn’t have the in-house expertise to teach philosophy and history and English.”. Canadian border. People are, like, ‘You’re studying what?

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 2, 2024

The program, organized by a Kentucky-based nonprofit of the same name, had brought together 14 students from four universities in the state — a mix of secular, religious, urban and rural institutions — as part of a semester-long course on developing ways to communicate with people of different races, religions, cultures, politics and worldviews.

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Geogramblings

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Before the likes of Trump, and even now with a so-called centre-left government, there’s still this misconception that the existence of folks like me is an ideology, whereas our existence is reality based on sound history, science, and sociology. Pre-colonial evidence and indigenous cultures show that we have always been here.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 9, 2024

Whitaker to talk about his book, The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America , a history of the idea of Black criminality in the making of the modern United States. I appreciated hearing about the history of how data has been (mis)used to construct a narrative of Black criminality. Thanks, T.

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