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Giving Voice to Students is the Missing Link in Education Research

Digital Promise

After attending a convening hosted by the Center for Inclusion Innovation in 2023, an education researcher transformed her practice to center student voice and leadership.

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Best of SAPIENS 2024

Sapiens

Anthropologists from around the globe brought dazzling insights and deeply reported concerns to the digital pages of SAPIENS magazine. We are honored to have collaborated with dozens of anthropologists this year who shared compelling essays, opinion pieces, poems, and podcast episodes at SAPIENS. It is no small task for academics to transform their research and experiences into pieces that are evocative, insightful, and persuasive.

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Why I Spend My Lunch Hour with Students

ED Surge

My favorite part of my job is not actually part of my job. As a public high school teacher in a state and district with a teachers union, my contract entitles me to a duty-free lunch. Over the years, however, I have willingly and somewhat proudly developed a lunch crew. Many teachers have a lunch crew that same group of students who choose to make their classroom a home base during the week.

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Anna and Harlan Hubbard Living in Payne Hollow

Life and Landscapes

Harlan (1900-1988) and Anna ( 1902-1986) Hubbard were interested in what was really out there, and how to live more fully within it. Painters, writers, musicians, and shanty boat river warriors, these two lived their natural lives as close to the river as a salamander might do near its home pond waters. They married in 1943, immediately building a shanty boat and commencing an eight year voyage down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers.

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Worldly Wednesday #15: Blocks and curriculum making

Living Geography

Another Wednesday means it's time for another Worldly Wednesday - the final one of the year. I started the day with a Zoom call about a possible curriculum making project. This has the potential to be very exciting, and occupy a lot of my time in the next year. I can't say more than that. These are exactly the sorts of projects that I would like to do more of, but I also want to remain teaching.

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From Global to Local: Service-Learning in a Comparative Politics Course

Political Science Now

From Global to Local: Service-Learning in a Comparative Politics Course By Chelsea N. Kaufman , Wingate University Setting out with a goal of increasing civic and community engagement among my students, I implemented a service-learning approach in my comparative politics course. Students chose community partners to work with and designed, carried out, and evaluated their own projects that met the partners needs.

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The present moment

ASHP CML

Its a season of change: a new year and a new presidential administration; changes in political power throughout the world; climate change; technological changes, and more. The ASHP staff knows that such changes dont emerge overnight; as we look backward and ahead, we remain committed to making our work as history educators help generate greater understanding of the current historical moment.