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If I was teaching Social Studies today…

Dangerously Irrelevant

For instance, if I was teaching Social Studies today… My students and I definitely would be tapping into an incredible diversity of online resources. It also offers a YouTube channel on which historians discuss their work , making history come alive for contemporary youth. government as well.

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Peasant and Peasantry in Anthropology

Anthropology for Beginners

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. Powerlessness and productivity are the two key aspects of peasantry under such a definition.

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Worldview

Anthropology for Beginners

Social (psychology, sociology, communications, history, cosmology) 4. Horton, Robin 1960 A Definition of Religion and Its Uses. Kluckhohn, Clyde 1951 Values and Value-orientations in the Theory of Action: An Exploration in Definition and Classification. Mendelson 1956): 1. Natural (biology, chemistry, physics) 3.

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Canceled research, sports, recitals — college students are coping with more than closed campuses

The Hechinger Report

The Penn Relays track-and-field competition, for example, which began in 1895 and was the longest uninterrupted collegiate track competition in history, has been canceled for the first time, affecting 15,000 expected participants. But the abrupt cancellations have brought pain to athletes in all sports.

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Why Class Diversity Can Be ‘Invisible’ at Colleges

ED Surge

And their divergent histories reveal the socioeconomic diversity of Black students who study at the nation’s most selective colleges. “Carl” grew up in an affluent and well-educated family, with a father who rose through the ranks to become a colonel in the U.S. Both of these students are Black. colleges since 1999.

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College Uncovered: The Rural Higher Education Blues

The Hechinger Report

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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At top colleges that train America’s elite, veterans are an almost invisible minority

The Hechinger Report

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