Mainstreaming the Applied Track: Connections, Guises, and Concerns

2001 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-49
Author(s):  
Jeanne Simonelli
Keyword(s):  
Graduate School ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Traditional Curriculum ◽  
The Past ◽  
Actual Degree ◽  
Degree Choice

"It's not real anthropology!" many of us were told in Graduate School, as we pursued applied studies in our local communities. Today, our students are asking for applied courses and "mainstream" courses with applied and experiential components. In some colleges, the applied track is an actual degree choice; in others, we are working to integrate courses into a traditional curriculum. As professor and chair of anthropology in two very different institutions, I've worked with both of these models for the past thirteen years. This article outlines each of these routes, and explores the ways faculty can get recognition for the work that these types of classes entail, within an entrenched tenure and promotion model of research, teaching, and service.

The Flynn Effect

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela Duckworth ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Graduate School ◽  
The United States ◽  
Delay Of Gratification ◽  
Average Score ◽  
Past Century ◽  
Political Scientist ◽  
Abstract Reasoning ◽  
Flynn Effect ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Difference

In tandem with increases in delay of gratification, the human capacity for abstract reasoning has increased enormously over the past century. This phenomenon is called the Flynn Effect, after the political scientist who discovered it. I first learned about the Flynn Effect in graduate school. I remember thinking it was impossible. How could it be that as a species, we're getting smarter? And not just a little bit smarter. The size of the Flynn Effect is staggering: more than 30 IQ points—the difference between getting an average score on a standard intelligence test versus qualifying as mentally gifted. Gains are comparable in all areas of the United States and, indeed, around the world.

scholarly journals The vegetation of Tshanini Game Reserve and a comparison with equivalent units in the Tembe Elephant Park in Maputaland, South Africa

Koedoe ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
J.Y. Gaugris ◽  
W.S. Matthews ◽  
M.W. Van Rooyen ◽  
J. Du P. Bothma
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Environmental Changes ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Management Decisions ◽  
The Past ◽  
Kwazulu Natal ◽  
Renewable Natural Resources ◽  
Game Reserve ◽  
Northern Maputaland

The Tembe Elephant Park was proclaimed in 1983 after negotiations between the then KwaZulu Bureau of Natural Resources and the Tembe Tribal Authority in consultation with the local communities of northern Maputaland, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. The park boundaries were subsequently fenced and animal numbers started to increase. The fence has kept the utilisation of renewable natural resources by the local communities at bay for the past 19 years. In this period, the vegetation of the park has been utilised only by the indigenous fauna, but it has been affected by management decisions and possibly also regional environmental changes.

scholarly journals Empoderando vidas y naciones resilientes desde el giro biográfico-local.

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseba Agirreazkuenaga
Keyword(s):  
Human Development ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
The Political ◽  
Global History ◽  
Political Practice ◽  
The Past ◽  
Globalized World ◽  
Global And Local ◽  
Local Research

In order to establish and consolidate the themes and ways of writing history, historians must be attentive to the global and local public agenda. Empowered lives - Resilient nations is a program for human development promoted by the UN. As long as there are local powers and local communities it will be necessary to carry out biographical-local research, analyzing these powers and communities in the past and present, establishing resilience patterns. We transform the historical research of the local past into global history. The personal and the political cannot be dissociated because “The personal is political and the political is personal”. Even eating is a political practice in today’s globalized world.

scholarly journals Sharing Stories: Students’ Experiences in Archaeological Education

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-28
Author(s):  
Magdalena Kozicka ◽  
Ewa Wielocha
Keyword(s):  
Local Communities ◽  
Public Archaeology ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
The Past ◽  
Contemporary Reality ◽  
Nicolaus Copernicus ◽  
Mass Events

AbstractSociety of Archaeology Students (SAS), in Polish: Koło Naukowe Studentów Archeologii (KNSA), is one of the oldest student societies working within the Institute of Archaeology of Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. In recent years SAS began to work in cooperation with other archaeological, historical and educational organisations, as well as with museums and open-air archaeological reservations. Most of our work is focused around building and maintaining the archaeological consciousness in contemporary society – not only through participating in various mass events but also through preparing workshops for people from local communities, as well as through adding archaeological impressions to various museum events and mass outdoor reenactment festivals. Within the current outlook on archaeological methodology, those actions are linked to so-called public archaeology – the concept that is still somewhat new in many areas of archaeological activities in Poland.The following article concerns strategies that are present in the SAS’ archaeological popularisation initiatives, as well as our reflections and inquiries on the topic of archaeological education in contemporary reality, with its numerous homogenised, standardised or idealised concepts of the past, often mirrored in many historical festivals’ conventions. Through our observations based upon various experiences, we would like to try to determine how the archaeological education and popularisation could be more widely recognised not only as a valuable but rather as an inseparable part of being an archaeolo-gist – university scholar or a field-working one.

The History of Africanization and the Africanization of History

2006 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
pp. 85-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Esperanza Brizuela-García
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Graduate School ◽  
American History ◽  
African Studies ◽  
African History ◽  
Not Given ◽  
Latin American History ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Challenges

The idea of Africanization is arguably one of the most important and prevalent in African historiography and African studies. I first encountered this notion some eight years ago when I started graduate school. With a background in Mexican and Latin American history, I found it necessary to immerse myself in the historiography of Africa. It was in this process that I encountered the idea of Africanization. It was not always identified in this manner, but it was clear that historians were, in one way or another, articulating a concern about how “African” was African history.The objective of this paper is to examine the history of Africanization in African historiography. It departs from two basic premises. First, the issues that come with the idea of Africanization are more pronounced in the field of African history. When compared to other fields, such as Latin American history, this indigenizing of history is not given nearly so much attention. Second, the idea that African history needs to be Africanized has been taken for granted, and has not been critically examined. Here I will contend that the historical conditions that have framed the emergence and development of African historiography have made it necessary to emphasize the issue of Africanization. I will also argue that those conditions have changed in the past fifty years, and that the questions raised in the quest to Africanize history should be redefined in view of the new challenges for African history and of historiography at large.

The Golden Virtue of Eclecticism in Economics John R. Commons Award Lecture

2000 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-4
Author(s):  
Paul A. Samuelson
Keyword(s):  
Public Finance ◽  
Graduate Students ◽  
Graduate School ◽  
Public Expenditure ◽  
Award Winner ◽  
Award Recipient ◽  
The Past ◽  
Course Work ◽  
Honor Students ◽  
The Commons

This award consists of no stipend for the recipient—rather travel money for graduate students presenting papers at the Meetings in 2001 and 2002 will be given in the name of the Commons award recipient. As we all know, ODE exists to honor students. This year's Commons award winner has arguably had more influence on students during the past fifty years than any other economist. We all became acquainted with him when we were undergraduates—via a book simply titled Economics. When we first started graduate school we met him again with a book known as Foundations. And when we started course work in our fields, in field after field we encountered seminal papers he had written. For example: in Public Finance “The Pure Theory of Public Expenditure”; in International Economics “International Trade and the Equalization of Factor Prices.” The list goes on and on and on—but I won't. It is my distinct privilege to be able to introduce this year's John R. Commons award winner: Prof. Paul Samuelson.

scholarly journals Providing Hearing Education and Resources for Underserved Populations (HEAR-UP) in our Local Neighborhoods

2020 ◽  
Vol 41 (02) ◽  
pp. 124-132
Author(s):  
Kathleen Costigan Coyan ◽  
Elaine Mormer
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Community Service ◽  
Hearing Aids ◽  
Underserved Populations ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
The United States ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Local Form ◽  
Educational Organizations ◽  
The Past

AbstractHealthcare services in the United States are difficult to access for at least 10% of our population. Moreover, hearing healthcare services, including hearing aids, are largely inaccessible even for those individuals who may have health insurance and access to healthcare. Humanitarian audiology has been recognized as a means of supplying hearing services and devices to underserved populations around the globe. However, little has been publicized about humanitarian audiology projects taking place in local communities within the United States. This article describes one such project that has been in place in Pittsburgh, PA, for the past 4 years. This service results from collaboration across a collection of healthcare, community service, charitable, and educational organizations. The resources necessary to create similarly sourced services in other U.S. locations are described. Challenges and solutions for this local form of humanitarian audiology are discussed.

scholarly journals Strengths of Exaggerated Tsunami-Originated Placenames: Disaster Subculture in Sanriku Coast, Japan

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (10) ◽  
pp. 429 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuzuru Isoda ◽  
Akio Muranaka ◽  
Go Tanibata ◽  
Kazumasa Hanaoka ◽  
Junzo Ohmura ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Low Frequency ◽  
Local Area ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Sanriku Coast ◽  
The Past ◽  
Disaster Experience ◽  
Digital Elevation ◽  
Disaster Subculture ◽  
Group Interviews ◽  
Elevation Model

Disaster-originated placename is a kind of disaster subculture that is used for a practical purpose of identifying a location while reminding the past disaster experience. They are expected to transmit the risks and knowledge of high-risk low-frequency natural hazards, surviving over time and generations. This paper compares the perceptions to tsunami-originated placenames in local communities having realistic and exaggerated origins in Sanriku Coast, Japan. The reality of tsunami-originated placenames is first assessed by comparing the tsunami run-ups indicated in the origins and that of the tsunami in the Great East Japan Earthquake 2011 using GIS and digital elevation model. Considerable proportions of placenames had exaggerated origins, but the group interviews to local communities revealed that origins indicating unrealistic tsunami run-ups were more believed than that of the more realistic ones. We discuss that accurate hazard information will be discredited if it contradicts to the people’s everyday life and the desire for safety, and even imprecise and ambiguous information can survive if it is embedded to a system of local knowledge that consistently explains the various facts in a local area that requires explanation.

Contested Country

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cathy Robinson ◽  
Bruce Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Management ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Environmental Governance ◽  
Northern Territory ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Natural Resources Management ◽  
Critical Examination ◽  
Resources Management ◽  
The Past

In Contested Country, leading researchers in planning, geography, environmental studies and public policy critically review Australia's environmental management under the auspices of the Natural Heritage Trust over the past decade, and identify the challenges that must be met in the national quest for sustainability. It is the first comprehensive, critical examination of the local and regional natural resources management undertaken in Australia, using research sourced from all states as well as the Northern Territory. It addresses questions such as: How is accountability to be maintained? Who is included and who is excluded in decentralised environmental governance? Does the scale of bottom-up management efforts match the scale of environmental problems? How is scientific and technical fidelity in environmental management to be maintained when significant activities are devolved to and controlled by local communities? The book challenges some of the accepted benefits, assumptions and ideologies underpinning regional scaled environmental management, and is a must-read for anyone interested in this field.

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