Society for Classical Studies

MARCH 4, 2024

Exploring the Assumptions of Cultural History: Call for Fellows kskordal Mon, 03/04/2024 - 13:37 Image The Future of the Past Lab and the Center for Premodern Studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities are excited to announce a three-year series of visiting fellowships titled “Exploring the Assumptions of Cultural History.”

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

“These humanities fields are down to unprecedented levels,” said Rob Townsend, director of humanities, arts and culture programs at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Pure sciences like physics and chemistry are included in the liberal arts and sciences but not the humanities. It’s worrisome.”.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 24, 2021

Black teachers have been in the awkward positions of having to create lessons around police violence and being asked to share their thoughts and feelings about race with colleagues from different cultural and ethnic backgrounds. A professor at the University of Utah, William Smith, coined the term racial battle fatigue nearly two decades ago.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2023

The English major (like many other majors in the humanities and sciences), goes back much further than that. These majors were designed for cultures that the vast majority of today’s students would barely recognize, and many have outworn their usefulness. We have a foundational first-year curriculum that includes them all.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 12, 2024

This year, tutors will also learn a list of AI literacies, such as how large language models work, issues with generative AI, such as their cultural biases, or how to write prompts that can help organize information, Johnson says. At Middlebury, tutors are also trained to navigate AI policies, which can differ among instructors, Giaimo says.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

As these Harvard training sessions took place, the California State Board of Education finally approved a new framework that sets out to make math more culturally responsive and inquiry-based. Kelly has taught a similar modeling course for economics and social sciences for the last few years.) The solution?

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Anthropology News

JULY 20, 2024

The stranger as a general category of analysis stands out within the social sciences precisely for what Georg Simmel dubbed this “constellation” of “near[ness] and far[ness] at the same time.” Filoxenia is splashed across newspaper articles , tourism websites , and travel blogs.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 1, 2018

These founders, hailing from leading universities as well as the US Atomic Energy Commission, IBM Corp and New York Life Insurance, knew that connecting the humanities and sciences helps us make informed judgments about our control of nature, ourselves and our destiny. Bringing the Disciplines Together. Challenges of 21st-Century Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2023

Hirsch, who developed the curriculum used in these schools and whose 1987 book Cultural Literacy inspired the common core standards movement in American education. Department of Education), the National Science Foundation and two private foundations. Content is hard.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 10, 2023

Through my work as director of MIT’s Teaching Systems Lab , I’ve asked the question to teachers, school leaders, coaches, researchers and experts of all stripes (think: learning science, instruction, teacher education, culturally responsive teaching and so on), and it typically elicits more pauses and wonderings than answers.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

A recent explosion of research from the neurobiological, behavioral, and social sciences has illuminated new knowledge about how children learn. This requires educators to be knowledgeable about children’s diverse cultures, languages, family structures, and socioeconomic circumstances.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2024

But Boaler’s popularity and influence have made her a focal point in the current math wars, which also seem to reflect the broader culture wars. It’s often not as precise as the hard sciences or even social sciences like economics. Academic fights usually don’t make it beyond the ivory tower.

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Anthropology News

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

“Courses in history, psychology, sociology, and political science are often part of the core curricula in journalism programs,” writes Paula Horvath in Journalism & Mass Communication Educator. Yet, the social science with perhaps the most to offer budding journalists, anthropology, has often been excluded from the chosen courses.” “The

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

The UC Davis California History Social Science Project frames current events within their historical context , connecting students’ present to the past. We could listen to podcasts on the geography of world cultures from Stanford University. And so on… .

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 29, 2018

English, humanities, and social science classes build these skills, as do projects and presentations in technical courses, where professors and peers provide feedback. Curricular and co-curricular activities support good job habits such as arriving on time, dressing properly and fitting in with a company’s culture.

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Society for Classical Studies

JUNE 13, 2024

The prize is dedicated to the publication of first books by early career scholars working in any discipline of the humanities or social sciences. Prize-winners will be invited to IRCPL to participate in a workshop and the books will appear in IRCPL’s series, “Religion, Culture, and Public Life,” published by Columbia University Press.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 24, 2022

Called Crypto, Culture, & Society , the group organizes courses that bring knowledge from the arts, humanities and social sciences into conversations about the Web3 world being dreamed into reality. Well, mostly about cryptocurrency. But Bhaumik Patel thinks the learning DAO he’s part of puts a twist on the concept.

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TCI

MARCH 1, 2024

From the rugged landscapes of the Andes to the bustling cities of Japan, students will learn about the cultural and geographical aspects that make each region unique. Integration of Economics and Civics for Real-World Connections Geography is only one of the social science disciplines. With Geography Alive!

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

She finally toned down racial references in her cover letter — using the term “cultural communities” rather than “African-American communities,” for instance, to refer to one of her areas of study — and things took a turn for the better. percent of doctorates in the physical sciences. percent in the physical sciences.

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Political Science Now

JUNE 18, 2024

“ The authors argue that variation in gender mainstreaming from IOs is rooted in organizational culture, principal control, client preferences, and staff viewpoints. She holds a Bachelor’s in Philosophy from Middle East Technical University (Turkey) and a Master’s in Political Science from Eastern Illinois University.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2016

At Northwestern University, seven quarter-long courses in social science or humanities are required for engineers. In science education, cultural origins and ethnic diversity are not marked as topics of discussion. As science educators, we have integrated literature and poetry into scientific training.

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A Psychology Teacher Writes

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Acknowledge that these are common problems and that we all find things difficult or get things wrong which helps to create a culture of error among staff. Habit formation limits growth in teacher effectiveness: A review of converging evidence from neuroscience and social science. Crown House Publishing. Sims, S. &

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2017

Later, in the wake of those same culture wars, I got into policy to advocate for artists like myself. Two decades ago, in the wake of “Culture Wars” that vilified artists and resulted in the Congress savaging public funding for artists in the U.S., Within a few years, I was touring as an independent, producing artist.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2018

We’re still suffering from the consequences of the culture war, where the humanities in particular and also the social sciences and now even the sciences are seen as ideologically driven,” Hoeckley said. Related: Ivy League degree: Now what?

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Political Science Now

AUGUST 22, 2024

Jackson has written peer-reviewed articles at Public Culture, Politics, Groups, and Identities , Social Science Quarterly , and the Journal of Women, Politics, and Policy. They are the author of BLACK WOMEN TAUGHT US (Penguin Random House, 2024) and POLICING BLACKNESS (University of Chicago Press, expected in 2025).

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Anthropology News

AUGUST 23, 2024

He led the deep integration of Anthropology’s broad offerings into the Core Curriculum for undergraduates, with different courses fulfilling requirements in social sciences, natural sciences, historical & cultural studies, and the arts.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 1, 2024

Specializing in Afro-Diasporic literatures and cultures, he has particular interests in performance studies, black political culture, diaspora, and colonialism, especially where they intersect with race, gender, and sexuality. Fleming Jr. is associate professor of English at the University of Maryland.

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Anthropology News

AUGUST 11, 2024

In 1972 he left to join the faculty of the two-year-old Hampshire College as full professor and dean of social sciences. Len Glick’s contributions to the cultural and intellectual life of that area of Massachusetts will be missed. He taught there for 30 years until retirement in 2002.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

A humanities and social science doctoral student from Manipur, India, takes readers on a journey through ordinary moments interwoven with violence. “A A Mausoleum of Our Everydays” is part of the collection Poems of Witness and Possibility: Inside Zones of Conflict. Read the introduction to the collection here. ✽

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Anthropology News

APRIL 30, 2024

Even amid the industry’s decline, P2P investors unaffected by platform bankruptcy were reportedly “the happiest” in China, per a 2018 China Academy of Social Sciences survey. This curated sense of “happiness” represents a technified financial affect—a deceptive technology that keeps people oblivious to significant potential risks.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2017

Let’s say you are a Florida State University student looking for a class to fulfill its history/social science requirement. Instead of taking some random history course, you might choose “History of Science,” which counts toward both F.S.U.’s

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Anthropology 365

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Dr. Sherwood Washburn argues that by studying the behavior of primates, anthropologists can gain insights into the evolution of human behavior, social structure, and culture. Why might anthropologists study primates?

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Anthropology for Beginners

DECEMBER 9, 2021

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Anthropology for Beginners

MAY 22, 2023

Culture and Personality Culture and personality is the name of a broad unrecognized movement which brings cultural anthropology, psychology and psychiatry together from about 1928 to 1955. The primary aim is to study human experience, facts and artifacts from a dual socio-cultural as well as psychological point of view.

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Teaching Anthropology

AUGUST 24, 2024

Many students thought they were dodging science by taking a social sciences course. Primatology is one of our early course topics, following directly after an introduction to culture. This lets me lead students into the topic by way of discussing culture in non-human primates.

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Anthropology for Beginners

APRIL 29, 2021

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Anthropology News

JUNE 27, 2024

The movement of people across borders is driven by a complex web of political, social, and cultural factors, making migration pathways a pressing challenge that affects both Global North and South countries. Examples include the dangerous Mediterranean route to Europe and the Darien Gap on the border between Panama and Colombia.

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