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Teaching Syndemics

Teaching Anthropology

Secondly, syndemic health conditions adversely interact through various biological or psychological mechanisms or pathways. Firstly, they involve two or more health problems that cluster together in a population. Why teach syndemics? It also focuses on anthropogenic climate/environment disruptions that drive adverse disease interactions.

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Why You Shouldn’t Use Physical Education As Punishment

TeachThought

To add to the pile of psychological and physical health repercussions of this trend, there’s even more serious reason not to use physical education as punishment: it could be illegal in your state. That’s right.

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Riding A Wave

ShortCutsTV

Many of our Psychology films reference material from the past, either in the shape of psychological research or simply as background to a particular time period and this gives me the opportunity to spend time combing through sites like the Internet Archive looking for old film.

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‘A drastic experiment in progress’: How will coronavirus change our kids?

The Hechinger Report

Play facilitates cognitive development, said James Coan, a psychology professor at the University of Virginia who studies the neuroscience of human connection. James Coan, a psychology professor at the University of Virginia. Photo by Interim Archives/Getty Images. And yet “adults are not very good playmates,” he told me.

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OPINION: The invisible toll of mass incarceration on childhood development

The Hechinger Report

Related: Early Education Archives. Visiting times should be increased, parents should be allowed to hold their children during these interactions, and more financial and psychological supports should be offered to people reentering society after prison. In the absence of such guarantees, K.,

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If I was teaching Social Studies today…

Dangerously Irrelevant

We’d also have access to historical documents from the British Museum – such as notes from an English merchant in Syria in 1739 – and to the prisoner of war archives from the Red Cross. National Archives, and maybe dig through the 5.3 million book images from the Internet Archive. . Washington University in St.

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OPINION: Black-white disparities in education correlate with teachers’ implicit biases, but it will take more than education reform to solve the issue

The Hechinger Report

Using nationwide data from the Stanford Education Data Archive , the Civil Rights Data Collection and Project Implicit ’s white-Black implicit association test (IAT), we examined teachers’ racial biases and Black-white educational disparities.

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