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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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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Although Black Americans reinvented and established a unique culture, we’re eternally connected to the sub-Sahara. It opens with an explanation of its title and its connection to Black culture. She retells history with expert analyses of historical artifacts, primary sources and thorough research. King, Ph.D.

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MAY 8, 2023

Research in teaching anthropology suggests that students learn and understand the subject better by being involved (Copeland and Dengah, 2016) and applying the knowledge both in theoretical and in real-world situations. A space for learning: An analysis of research on active learning spaces. References Bastide, H. 56-67. . &

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Anthropology.net

AUGUST 6, 2024

Ludovic Slimak, a leading paleoanthropologist affiliated with the French National Center for Scientific Research and the University of Toulouse-Le Mirail, has devoted his career to exploring the enigmatic world of Neanderthals. Slimak asserts. "We One striking example is the discovery of bird feathers in Neanderthal sites in Italy.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Graeber also analyzes the “bullshitization” of “real jobs,” such as in education, where new cultures of neoliberal “managerialism” have seen teachers and academics doing increasing amounts of administrative work, taking up more and more of the time that, most agree, would be better spent doing actual teaching or research.

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Anthropology for Beginners

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The earliest of these village descriptions, Redfield's Tepoztlan (1930), emerged out of a concern with the 'human ecology' of communities, which marked the school of urban sociology developed at the University of Chicago under the auspices of Redfield's father-in-law, Robert E. in fact he was talking about 'peasants' [1967:4].

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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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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Students may come back from recess feeling dissatisfied … feeling excluded,” said Rebecca London, an associate professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz and the author of the book “ Rethinking Recess ,” when I interviewed her for a story about recess last year. “We

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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 12, 2020

We are two sociology professors who live and do research in New York City. We have concluded that the city must reimagine the culture of its police department with community-policing reform. It is different than community policing because it does not change the culture of all police officers, just a select few.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 23, 2020

One has to wonder whether the test scores, which are too often correlated with race and class due to their cultural biases and the unequal prior academic opportunities that students have had, are not really the point. It’s time for NYC white parents to sign up for virtual tours of middle schools that were not otherwise on your list.

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Political Science Now

AUGUST 1, 2024

in Sociology from Stanford University and a Ph.D. Her research interests include municipal election reforms, the structure of local electoral management bodies, and teaching and learning in political science. She holds a B.A. in International Relations and French and an M.A in Political Science from the CUNY Graduate Center.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2020

The lack of cultural competence and consideration affects black students disproportionately — hence, the severity of racial disparities surrounding certain issues, such as the school-to-prison pipeline. Her interests include research and advocacy for children of color, children from impoverished backgrounds and children involved in athletics.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 10, 2013

The only thing though is that this day was just like any other typical day at my school as digital learning has become an embedded component of our school''s culture. Collentine’s Humanities class, students worked in the computer lab on researching the history of drama and theater in the culture of their own heritage.

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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. in rhetoric and composition but has largely focused her research on the experiences of women veterans. “We We understand that a person has very many intersecting identities – race, culture, ethnicity, social class, education,” Grohowski said.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

It takes a close look at the challenges and goals of two colleges in California that primarily serve America’s “new majority”—that is, students who may be the first in their families to seek higher education, who are people of color and who are often low-income—and that also have grand ambitions to be top research universities.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 28, 2018

“Affluent parents might see rising income inequality as really making a winner-take-all economy and feel a strong push to give their kids every advantage they can,” said Daniel Schneider, professor of sociology at the University of California at Berkeley. The poor were less likely to go on cultural outings.

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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. Early-20th-century research in the U.S. So what do they denote? railway policy.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2021

Cynthia Stretch and John O’Connor, who teach English and sociology, respectively, at different campuses in the Connecticut State University System, are among faculty protesting a proposal to increase their teaching loads from four courses a semester to five. There’s a fundamental disrespect for these students.”.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2022

It’s about a shift in the culture,” Capp said. More than a quarter of students dropped out between their first and second years in college in 2020, according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center — the highest level in nearly a decade. At community colleges, nearly half the students quit after their first year.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 1, 2018

STEM is painted as a more profitable investment, in terms of job creation and research dollars generated. So, separating and prioritizing STEM from humanities ignores the fact that we live in a complex social and cultural world. And many different disciplines must combine to address this world’s needs and challenges.

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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. Sign up for our newsletter.

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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

DECEMBER 10, 2018

New research shows that even with a chief diversity officer in place, significant gains in faculty hires that are multicultural and diverse are lacking. They have come to expect such diversity and want, in addition, a focus on inclusive culture and campus environments. This is necessary, but it is not enough.

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Anthropology for Beginners

DECEMBER 9, 2021

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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. I’m talking about black female instructors who are scientists and researchers. Georgia State’s dean of students, Darryl B. Photo: Terrell Clark.

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Strange Maps

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

And now, researchers in the journal Science suggest a third place: the Lesser Caucasus, primarily found in Armenia, Azerbaijan, and parts of eastern Turkey and southern Georgia. Many of its proponents think that PIE speakers, kurgan builders, and the ancient Yamnaya culture are actually one and the same.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Early data from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center shows college enrollments down this fall for the second year in a row. Yusanat Tway, a sociology major at the University of Minnesota, wants to go to law school, then do human rights advocacy. “It How do I want to contribute?’ ” Savitz-Romer said.

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Strange Maps

JULY 13, 2023

There is also a geographic component to their distribution, research suggests. But the significant degree of variation for most of the characteristics illustrates that the state is far from culturally monolithic. Research into the geographic distribution of the Big Five personality traits has also shown remarkable results for the UK.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 30, 2018

When elite admissions offices stepped up recruitment of low-income and first-generation students several years ago, they focused on financial aid, not noticing the cultural issues. Related: Column: New research offers home to first-generation college grads. “I I was thinking, ‘That could be my cousin.’ ”.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 11, 2016

We wanted to let people have a space to just talk, be and make signs because I know that making signs is a form of grieving,” said Joseph Coco, matriculating doctoral student in Sociology at LSU and a principal organizer at the “sign making and information meeting.”. Whether it’s in Baton Rouge, St.

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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. And so on… .

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

As a state, we cannot afford to leave anyone behind,” said Alex Hermida, senior research analyst at the Minnesota Office of Higher Education and chair of a state-led group that is tackling the challenge. Many are taking steps to diversify their faculty and staff and training them in “cultural competency.”. They are still behind .

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 14, 2022

And when researchers asked American parents of school-age children how important it is that their children do well in school, most gave it the highest level of importance; in fact, on average, Black, Latinx and Asian parents ranked it as more important than white parents did. Values only go so far in helping us understand what people do.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 16, 2023

But following that, I decided to take three years and immerse myself in the study of social capital research for my doctoral dissertation. Having conducted much more research, including my own mixed-method study, I’m more convinced than ever: Schools need to focus more on social capital development. Researcher Tara J.

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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. Those rural high school graduates who do go to college prefer to stay close to home , an abundance of research has shown.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Researchers say that’s because they feel out of step with campus culture. He heads up the Alliance for Research on Regional Colleges and is a professor at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina. Just since 2016, the proportion of rural students who enroll in college has dropped even more. Criminal justice.

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