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The Vanishing Traces of Our Earliest Ancestors in Indonesia

Sapiens

This site has thankfully been spared from destruction by the regional government when it was earmarked as a possible tourist attraction. While we were grateful that this impressive midden has been preserved, the government official accompanying us pointed out shells littering the landscape several hundred feet away.

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Bits and Bytes Don’t Leave Bones

Anthropology News

Whether shifting across geographies, languages, or systems, migration determines what knowledge endures and what is left behind. A government agency digitizing census records might preserve official documents while disregarding handwritten notes. The Migration Imperative Migration is a defining force of continuity and change.

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RGS-IBG response to the Curriculum and Assessment review

Living Geography

In our response we signal the value of a geographical education for all young people, the strengths of the current provision, and areas in need of attention for the geography curriculum. The call for evidence was necessarily a long document and our response goes into detail on all relevant points.

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If I was teaching Social Studies today…

Dangerously Irrelevant

We’d also have access to historical documents from the British Museum – such as notes from an English merchant in Syria in 1739 – and to the prisoner of war archives from the Red Cross. We could listen to podcasts on the geography of world cultures from Stanford University. government as well. And so on… .

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The Intersection of Inquiry-Based Learning and High-Quality Instructional Materials in Social Studies

ED Surge

Additionally, social studies encompasses a wide range of disciplines, including history, geography, civics and economics, each with its own set of disciplinary practices. The C3 Framework is the equivalent of our national standards document, but it's not a set of standards. The C3 Framework was released in 2013.

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Challenging times

Living Geography

My Twitter notifications have been growing over the last few days because I was copied into a tweet from Jo Coles regarding challenges facing geography. What would you say have been the biggest challenges to geography’s place in education, or to geog’s curriculum, in the last 20 years? The text above is taken from this document.

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Come and join me.

Living Geography

For the avoidance of doubt all references to education in this document refer to education of compulsory school-age students in any setting.