ED Surge

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

I learned truths about European imperialism and the humanness before slavery — how colonists from all over Europe stuck their flagpoles into African soils, controlling nations and influencing heritage for centuries. Humanizing pre-colonial history catapulted a spiritual reckoning and unlocked a familiar wholeness for me. King, Ph.D.

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Teaching Anthropology

MAY 8, 2023

Anthropology modules appear in programs in three programs I have taught: Archaeology and Anthropology, Human Sciences, and Music. I first trialed active learning strategies while teaching at the University of Oxford, where one of the challenges of teaching anthropology is the diverse background of the students (Bastide, 2012).

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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

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. Related: Will this semester forever alter college?

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 24, 2018

Motivated by a fierce desire to protect their children and themselves from difficulty, and armed with a robust sense of entitlement as well as ample economic, cultural and social resources, affluent parents can trigger conflict and interfere with school districts on a scale that is rarely acknowledged. Mississippi Learning.

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Anthropology.net

AUGUST 6, 2024

In his groundbreaking book, The Naked Neanderthal: A New Understanding of the Human Creature (2024), Slimak delves into the depths of Neanderthal life, challenging preconceived notions and offering a fresh perspective on what it means to be human. Slimak asserts. Slimak asserts. "We

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Anthropology for Beginners

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The roots of the anthropological interest in peasants were elsewhere, in the comparative study of the human condition. The central issue to which the early studies were addressed was the nature of human communities; they were, first of all, village studies, and only incidentally studies of peasants.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2018

Businesspeople need to understand human nature more than ever before. Still, to understand human nature, leaders need to do more than crunch numbers. That is precisely why business students need to learn psychology, history, sociology, culture and art. But they will be rendered meaningless without the human touch.

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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. A disproportionate number of humanities and science programs are being dropped. He hopes to go into law or public administration.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Her research examines the conditions for justice during internal armed conflict, human rights prosecutions, transitional justice in post-communist Eastern European states, gender equality in post-conflict settings, and justice efforts in democracies. in sociology at Minnesota State University, Mankato.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

web site from the National Endowment for the Humanities, including a very popular set for AP U.S. We could listen to podcasts on the geography of world cultures from Stanford University. And, if I was stuck for an idea for class, I could access the Social Studies lesson plans at Educade or the 400+ lesson plans at the EDSITEment!

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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. Law, science and technological advancements lead to highly decentralized human endeavours. lakh villages and nearly 99.6 per cent of rural population.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Paul Public Schools, speaks with Yusanat Tway (right), a first-generation University of Minnesota student interested in attending law school but worried that work in human rights advocacy will not pay enough to justify the cost. Credit: Laura Pappano for The Hechinger Report. It will cost $200K” to get a law degree, she said.

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This Is Not a Sociology Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

The big message of Black Mirror is not that technology is taking over our lives and removing our humanity (although these are certainly present as possibilities) as some episodes are quite optimistic about the potential of immersive technologies (e.g. “ San Junipero “, “ Striking Vipers “).

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Researchers say that’s because they feel out of step with campus culture. Megan Hickerson: And I knew the humanities, because the humanities are always under attack these days, right? Just since 2016, the proportion of rural students who enroll in college has dropped even more. Criminal justice. Philosophy.

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Anthropology News

APRIL 17, 2024

He then served in the US Army in for two years (1952–54) and as a government researcher in Germany before earning a PhD in cultural anthropology in 1961 from the University of London, with certificates in African and Islamic law and Swahili at the School of African and Oriental Studies (SOAS) in 1958.

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Strange Maps

AUGUST 12, 2023

A landscape of human skull shapes These black-and-white maps are aesthetically attractive as well as invitingly strange. The divisions they display for the most part don’t correspond to any familiar type of boundaries — political, natural, or cultural. ” To be more precise: these maps plot a landscape of human skull shapes.

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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Route—a space created from movement—is one of four types of spatial figure in sociology of space (as proposed by Martina Löw and Hubert Knoblauch ). The citizen action groups highlighted different issues, from conserving endangered species to preserving cultural landscapes. Credit: Indrawan Prabaharyaka The Theatre of the Long Now.

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Strange Maps

JULY 13, 2023

But the significant degree of variation for most of the characteristics illustrates that the state is far from culturally monolithic. These traits help explain many aspects of human behavior.

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Political Science Now

MAY 9, 2025

.” In recent years, many countries have enacted restrictions on abortion rights, sparking intense debates and concerns about human rights. They argue that restricting abortion rights is not only harmful to women and marginalized groups but also serves as a precursor to broader human rights abuses.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Such roles are prevalent in areas such as finance, admin, law, marketing, and human resources. B t jobs, Graeber argues, have bloomed in professions like finance (financial services); law (corporate law); administration (academic and health administration); and marketing, public relations, and human resources.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 2, 2021

Until now, the work has been done by students of sociology and psychology and anthropology. We understand that a person has very many intersecting identities – race, culture, ethnicity, social class, education,” Grohowski said. For almost as long as there have been wars, there have been people who study veterans.

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Sapiens

APRIL 16, 2025

Sociality, or the relations humans have with other humans, has long interested me. Later I ask my friend Yoshiko Kuga about it. Japanese names are written last name first in Japanese but inverted when writing in English (as here).) She tells me that more and more Japanese are worried about meeting this undesirable fate.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2024

At the same time, to address mental health concerns, colleges are creating more courses in fields like “the environmental humanities,” Hamilton and Taylor Swift studies and offering more and more wellness days. She’s a sociology professor at the University of Virginia and coauthor of the book Academically Adrift.

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Strange Maps

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

About 46% of humans, well over three billion people, are native speakers of an Indo-European language. 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.

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This Is Not a Sociology Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2017

David Armstrong (1995) has famously analysed the emergence of what he refers to as “surveillance medicine” this involves the extension of the “medical gaze” from the human body and its biology into social spaces. 1995) ‘The rise of surveillance medicine’ Sociology of Health & Illness, 17(3): 393-404. Armstrong, D. Petersen, AR.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

The humanities add some color into that.”. It’s a fast-spreading skepticism that has resulted in significant drops in the number of students majoring in the humanities on both sides of the U.S.-Canadian The proportion of students who major in the humanities has fallen from a high of nearly one in five to one in 20.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 16, 2018

He’s now studying sociology along with markets, management and the economy , while working two part-time jobs on campus so he can send money home. Wealth disparities aside, Inoa is floored by his freedom to take a pre-med track along with sociology and a dizzying array of courses in subjects to which he’d never been exposed.

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Zinn Education Project

MARCH 7, 2024

And as we extend that definition to larger groups of people, as we introduce power, we begin to understand that who gets to decide what those rules are and what those norms are becomes much more complicated, and often an expression of political, economic, and cultural power. Her solution was not to denigrate the cultures of these people.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 15, 2019

Fahad Alharthi is a recipient of the Saudi Arabian Cultural Mission scholarship, which covers his educational costs at Tennessee State University. But he did have a scholarship guaranteed by the Saudi Arabian Cultural Mission, to use to learn English and then attend a U.S. Photo: Delece Smith-Barrow/The Hechinger Report. college. .

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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. I learned about critical race theory in grad school along with plenty of other sociological concepts that have since faded away.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 9, 2024

I am co-facilitating today’s class with high school teacher, Prentiss Charney Fellow , and great all around human being, T. Formally, he was the director of a place that we hold very dear, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Whitaker, who has been part of this series for a long time. It’s good to have you with us.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 6, 2025

Like air, humanities-driven work is everywhere but taken for granted, so much a part of life its easy to overlook. Published by Cambridge University Press, Public Humanities is pitched as a very large tent. Its open to all disciplines, geographies, periods, methodologies, authors, and audiences across the humanities.

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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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