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How one university is luring coveted honors students with social justice

The Hechinger Report

Tyndall turned down a bevy of offers from colleges in other states to attend Rutgers’ Honors Living-Learning Community (HLLC), which brings together dozens of students each year for a residential program that combines rigorous academics with a social-justice focus. “I Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like.

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Multimodal ethnographies for teaching anthropological sensibilities

Teaching Anthropology

When I consider multimodality, my mind always travels back to Gregory Bateson’s take on communication and the use of multiple modes of mediation in social interaction.

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OPINION: What if everything we believe about education is a lie?

The Hechinger Report

This flies in the face of common sense and human history, deBoer argued. These myths are harmful, in deBoer’s view, because they lead us to conflate academic ability and human worth. In the author’s telling, the Cult of Smart is “the notion that academic value is the only value, and intelligence the only true measure of human worth.

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OPINION: This war veteran, and adult learner, set an example — in the 16th century

The Hechinger Report

. Service, liberal education, being responsive to society’s needs, and a commitment to social justice: the tenets of a Jesuit education look a lot more like the innovative future than some might think. Ignatius, in addition to the traditional 18- to 22-year-old students, particularly low-income and first-generation college students.

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Unlocking Skills: What Learners and Employers Need to Know About Microcredentials

ED Surge

One of the draws to credentialing programs is that they afford learners unparalleled flexibility while requiring a considerably smaller investment of time than traditional degree programs. The digital credential program is helping promote equity and social justice, reaching communities beyond the traditional educational pathway.

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Intersectional Anthropology as an Avenue Toward Praxis, Pedagogy, and New Anthropological Horizons

Anthropology News

Kimberlé Crenshaw stated that in its original formulation, Intersectionality worked to expose “ how single-axis thinking undermines legal thinking, disciplinary knowledge production, and struggles for social justice.” Studying human bodies provides a deep historical perspective on social dynamics whose echoes remain with us today.

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Making School Better for Gender-Expansive Kids

Cult of Pedagogy

Maybe you believe gender fluidity has always been a part of human existence and that those statistics only exist because we are just now getting around to naming and measuring it. There are wonderful single stall restroom designs that cost about the same as regular, traditional binary restrooms.

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