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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. Cited Sources Barrett, P., &

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The New Neuroscience of Learning: How Brain Research Validates Montessori Methods

Maitri Learning

When humans feel stressed or disconnected, our brains shift away from the higher-order thinking needed for learning and into survival mode (Arnsten, 2015). There is also more than just one path to mastery - different humans may take different valid routes to achieve the same learning goals (Fischer & Yan, 2002).

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Teacher Engagement Part II: Emotional Engagement

Catlin Tucker

The quality of a teacher’s relationship with their students has the most significant impact on their emotional engagement at work (Hagenauer, Hascher & Volet, 2015; Tucker 2020). It makes me feel more approachable and human when I share my life experiences with them. I graduated from UCLA with a degree in English Literature.

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Low-cost mindset interventions show promise, but not for all kids

The Hechinger Report

Years later, studying psychology, she wondered if mindset interventions would also be effective in her field. The researcher, Jessica Schleider, currently a psychology fellow at Yale Medical School, adapted Dweck’s online program into two half-hour mindset lessons, one aimed at depression and the other at anxiety.

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How Water Insecurity Impacts Women’s Health

Sapiens

Working in Indonesia and Peru, we also use this research, and our close partnerships with local communities and organizations, to spur action that supports gender equality and the basic human right to water. WATER INSECURITY AND GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE The statistics on rising water insecurity are distressing. An estimated “1.8

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How colleges can become ‘living labs’ for combating climate change 

The Hechinger Report

Over the past decade, a growing number of professors in fields as diverse as business, English and the performing arts have integrated their teaching with efforts to minimize their campuses’ waste and emissions, at a time when human-created climate change is fueling dangerous weather and making life on Earth increasingly unstable.