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. Grafting ethnography onto journalism has been suggested for decades—it’s time to put it into practice.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 20, 2020

Graduate students have had their research interrupted. As a biologist, of course, I understand the importance of acting appropriately in this moment,” said Gildea, whose research into neurodegenerative disease, and potential ways to slow it, has been under way for two years. Sign up for our higher education newsletter.

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Teaching Anthropology

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

How might we recognise and engage with understandings of trauma, and what implications might this have for anthropological research and teaching? This special issue aims to draw together insights for deploying these findings in research and teaching with particular attention to reducing possibilities of harm.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 5, 2024

History reminds us that counterattacks have followed every advancement in equity and inclusion, from Brown vs. Board of Education to affirmative action. Research shows that women and educators of color, particularly Black, Asian, Latinx and Indigenous women, receive worse evaluations than their white and male counterparts.

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ED Surge

MARCH 23, 2023

This semester, the Community College of Aurora rolled out the first microcredentials in its history. These short courses offer students the opportunity to study behavioral health, which aligns with jobs in our region related to human services, sociology, counseling, psychology and social work. Katz describe as the “ formative years.”

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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. And it will differ from programs in military studies at colleges around the country, which focus on strategy, military systems and the history of warfare. For almost as long as there have been wars, there have been people who study veterans.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 23, 2020

The New York Times podcast “Nice White Parents” illustrated this process at several points in the long history of just one school. This policy change creates a real test for more affluent white parents who say they live in New York City because of the diversity and then send their children to segregated schools.

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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. Subjects such as history teach about the past as a lens into the present, she said.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2023

Generally, colleges of arts and sciences are large academic units within a university that offer a range of department-led majors and areas of study, research and creative activity: from the arts (e.g., English and other languages, history, religious studies), the social sciences (e.g., dance, film, theater) to the humanities (e.g.,

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ED Surge

AUGUST 14, 2024

Some of them travel to the campus during the school day to take courses in introductory English, history, psychology and sociology. And the growth is steep — up 10 percent compared to last year, according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Related: When students research the inequality in their own schools. With a focus on diverse life histories, the project shows how one crisis can cascade into another, morphing into a constellation of social, interpersonal, aspirational and financial losses.

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ED Surge

APRIL 12, 2023

Even more astonishing, five of my former students decided to become high school history teachers, just like me: Paula Katrina Camaya : a former Chicago Public Schools educator currently teaching civics and humanities at Evanston Township High School (ETHS) in Evanston, Illinois. History class during the 2014-2015 academic year.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

They’d researched topics including solar energy and composting, acquiring skills in project management and finance as they developed their business plans. New research in the journal WIREs Climate Change examines the fossil fuel industry’s extensive involvement in higher education.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The film is a straightforward history lesson and explainer, and a great way to understand this highly fraught debate over fairness and meritocracy. The film also provides a clear picture of the arguments and history behind the specific lawsuits the court will soon hear, and shows how they have divided Asian American and other communities.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2019

A new study from a Rutgers research center also finds that students who work while in college earn higher salaries afterwards. The researchers calculated similar income spikes for working students in bachelor’s degree programs. Previous research has relied on student academic records. Proof Points.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

It also offers a YouTube channel on which historians discuss their work , making history come alive for contemporary youth. The UC Davis California History Social Science Project frames current events within their historical context , connecting students’ present to the past. We’d subscribe to feeds and listen to podcasts from the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2020

Will history repeat? To get a better job” is the top reason freshmen say they enrolled at a public university , UCLA’s Higher Education Research Institute reports. These programs started because of political pressures, and the political pressures are no longer there.” Related: How the last recession affected higher education.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2019

Cutting-edge research in brain science and education tells us that students learn better and deeper when their ways of knowing a topic are challenged by those who have different life experiences and worldviews. We understand things in slightly different ways because of our histories and backgrounds. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 19, 2021

percent in the fall, or by more than 461,000 students compared to the fall of 2019, the decline among men was more than seven times as steep as the decline among women, according to an analysis of figures from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. “In Now he plans to get a degree in sociology. Department of Education.

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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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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 1, 2018

STEM is painted as a more profitable investment, in terms of job creation and research dollars generated. To address this gap, four years ago the faculty from materials engineering and liberal arts at the University of Florida began working with the Materials Research Society. It is not a “history course for engineers.”

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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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Anthropology for Beginners

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

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. 1500,” in The Fontana Economic History of Europe: The Middle Ages, ed. 3–4 (October 1972): 391. [v]

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2019

But despite this apparent simplicity, two prominent education researchers have arrived at different answers. Leave this field empty if you're human: They’re both highly regarded quantitative researchers at Stanford University. Simply look up the test scores for rich kids and subtract the tests scores for poor kids.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2020

Left vulnerable when the coronavirus pandemic hit, Missouri Western is now cutting nearly a third of its faculty and at least 98 majors, minors and concentrations , including in English, history, chemistry, biology, philosophy, sociology, political science, computer technology, music and art.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 25, 2016

She’s referring to decades of research on teacher diversity showing that students perform better when they are exposed to teachers who look like them and who have similar backgrounds. Research has largely supported the theory that a more diverse teaching force is good for students. In a 2004 study of Tennessee third-graders, Thomas S.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2024

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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ED Surge

JULY 18, 2023

And their divergent histories reveal the socioeconomic diversity of Black students who study at the nation’s most selective colleges. But it’s revealed by a study that she and colleagues have used for research, called the National Longitudinal Survey of Freshmen, which has followed entering students at a group of 28 selective U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 5, 2021

“The message is getting clearer and clearer: This is what our postsecondary population looks like,” said Alexandria Walton Radford, co-author of a new study by the American Institutes for Research that identified 67 “promise” programs across the U.S. that pay college tuition for adults. ?Valissa?White, Online Mondays, on campus Wednesdays.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

I’m talking about black female instructors who are scientists and researchers. It means I have a level of comfort here,” said Lewis, a junior sociology major. A senior biology major, Zuwena Green says having many “black female instructors who are scientists and researchers” inspires her. It’s actually very exciting.”.

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Anthropology for Beginners

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Social (psychology, sociology, communications, history, cosmology) 4. Further reading: [link] Further reading for research: Bunzel, Ruth 1952 Chichicastenango: A Guatemalan Village. In its current connotation, worldview is seen as a combination of the following information which social scientists can gather from the field (E.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2023

It was the first lesson in a school week that would take her kids through memoir writing, an introduction to division and research on Indigenous history, each activity carefully curated by Snyder. BOSTON — Taryn Snyder’s third graders were leaning over their desks, scratching out short essays on what they’d done over the weekend.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 19, 2017

I have taught and administered at a large commuter school in Los Angeles, at a land grant university in Appalachia and now at a private research university in the Northeast. The same attention to evidence and fact-based reasoning is taught in history, mathem­atics, science and sociology courses.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 4, 2018

The show has everything — sociology, psychology, interpersonal relations, ethics,” says Barile, who is in her 24th year of teaching. “We In history, students might pick historical characters and analyze major events of their era from the character’s perspective. We watch the show and dissect it.”.

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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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Leah Cleary

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

I’ve also got four preps, AP World History, Sociology, Psychology, and IB Theory of Knowledge. Sociology Blended Notebook Table of Contents. Economics and World History are fully structured this way. I’m in the process of updating all of the Sociology units. It’s tip 2 in this post.

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Anthropology for Beginners

DECEMBER 9, 2021

medical anthropology has engage in both basic research into health and healing systems and applied research aimed at the improvement of therapeutic care in clinical settings or community public health programs in prevention and disease control. A specialised branch of anthropology, i.e,

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