Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

With over 1,300 ethnic groups, 700 local languages, and various religious and cultural practices spread across more than 17,000 islands, Indonesia’s cultural diversity is an invaluable treasure. President Jokowi seeks to embody and represent this rich cultural diversity.

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ED Surge

MAY 2, 2022

Taken to the extreme, when edtech willfully makes product decisions that are not in the best interest of educators and their students, it only serves to contribute to the brokenness of a system that too often fails at providing the basic human right of education to learners across the world.

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EdTech Education Human Rights Leadership 106

Dr. Shannon Doak

OCTOBER 7, 2024

The infographic that highlights the 65 jobs least likely to be automated, taken from The US Career Institute really drives home the importance of skills that only humans can offer—things like emotional intelligence, empathy, creativity, and cultural competence. Language and Literature Courses: Explore texts from diverse cultures.

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Teaching Critical Thinking Leadership Cultures 59

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 17, 2016

We must reimagine schools’ goals and their learning culture, and invent new approaches for learning both new and traditional subjects and topics. These new skills and knowledge are the new fundamental requisites for K-12 studies, college studies, 21 st century jobs and ensuring lifelong earning in the digital innovation economy.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2023

As a pediatric speech-language pathologist, I often find myself in settings where discussing Palestine, or even mentioning my identity as a Palestinian American, presents more challenges than when I worked in the field of human rights and law. Even using their own experience doesn’t protect teachers from attacks.

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K-12 Education Advocacy Human Rights 122

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

The story dominated headlines for more than a year, cost New York City Schools Chancellor Joseph Fernandez his job and opened a new chapter in the culture wars. “Heather Has Two Mommies” has once again become a lightning rod in culture wars: Credit: Candlewick Press/Penguin Random House. Fast forward to 2022.

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Library Social Justice History Psychology 117

Sapiens

MARCH 4, 2025

Pure objectivity is a fallacy: Lived experience, cultural contexts, and the particularities of each case all impact and inform the work of forensic scientists. Cultural anthropologists , archaeologists , and biological anthropologists have included these actions in their scholarship for decades. This is the flagship U.S.

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