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Children as Artists: A New Perspective on Upper Paleolithic Cave Art

Anthropology.net

By integrating insights from developmental psychology, researchers have identified playful and imaginative marks made by young artists, fundamentally rethinking prehistoric creativity. The article is titled, “Children as playful artists: Integrating developmental psychology to identify children’s art in the Upper Palaeolithic.

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Research-Influenced Learning Spaces

A Principal's Reflections

The evidence of such connections came from the medical understanding of how human sensory perception affects cognitive calculations. As such, Barrett and Zang (2009) identify three key design principles: Naturalness : Hardwired into our brains, humans have the basic need for light, air, and safety. Barrett, P., Moffat, J., &

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Psychological technologies

This Is Not a Sociology Blog

In the previous post in this series I discussed how we can see public health strategies as “technologies” which reveal human health, life and behaviour in particular ways and act as tools for changing these. Psychoanalysis Some of the most important “technologies” of psychology were developed by Sigmund Freud.

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The Gene That May Have Helped Shape Human Language

Anthropology.net

A Genetic Mystery Unraveled For years, scientists have tried to piece together the evolutionary puzzle of human language. What genetic shifts allowed humans to develop the intricate vocal control necessary for language? Research suggests that mutations in the human NOVA1 gene may have played a role in the development of language.

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Research scholars to air problems with using ‘grit’ at school

The Hechinger Report

Leave this field empty if you're human: Martin Credé, a social psychologist at Iowa State University, has been particularly outspoken. ” Credé first published his analysis of all the grit studies he could find and laid out the problems in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology in 2017. . Choose as many as you like.

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OPINION: When it comes to liberal-arts education, online learning changes only the tools

The Hechinger Report

I’d already adapted this class in 2013 as one of Coursera’s free online humanities offerings. I myself was teaching a class on campus, “The Modern and the Postmodern,” that I am now teaching remotely.

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Teacher Engagement Part II: Emotional Engagement

Catlin Tucker

Emotional engagement encompasses a teachers’ feelings about, degree of dedication to, and emotional response to their work (Perera, Vosicka, Granziera & McIlveen, 2018; Klassen, Yerdelen & Durksen, 2013). It makes me feel more approachable and human when I share my life experiences with them. Students love this activity.