Anthropology for Beginners

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Worldview Worldview is the set of cultural and psychological beliefs held by members of a particular culture; the term was borrowed from the German Weltanschauung. The first explicit elaboration of the concept occurred in Redfleld’s article “The Primitive World View” (1952). Mendelson 1956): 1. Natural (biology, chemistry, physics) 3.

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ED Surge

MARCH 23, 2023

These short courses offer students the opportunity to study behavioral health, which aligns with jobs in our region related to human services, sociology, counseling, psychology and social work. to transition away from human slavery as its dependent workforce for crop production and infrastructure development.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Luckily for all of us, the journal Psychological Science in the Public Interest published a review article a few years ago that remains the most comprehensive guide out there. Related: To err is human – and a powerful prelude to learning. Researchers have devoted decades to studying how to study.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2018

In an article for the English Journal , Narter recounts how the student found his feedback more encouraging when he expressed it orally. Leave this field empty if you're human: The implication, then, is that the more we know about a speaker or writer, the better we’ll interpret his or her meaning. Weekly Update. Future of Learning.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Research in psychology has led to a clearer picture of common pitfalls in human reasoning — instincts people are wired to make that may have helped our caveman ancestors but that now lead people to make biased decisions or incorrect assumptions. And that can be the problem with the fake news.

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The Effortful Educator

OCTOBER 1, 2024

A large majority of the students I teach are novice learners when it comes to the curriculum of psychology. For the vast majority of human beings, the answer is a resounding no. link] Please check out this article for more on novice vs. expert learners. And novice learners learn best when the instruction is simpler. Taylor, J.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

Plato wrote that his teacher Socrates fretted that writing things down would cause humans to become ignorant because they wouldn’t have to memorize anything. The study made a huge splash in the journal Science , followed by popular articles about the “Google effect.” Participants searched for the article and read it.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2014

Concerns about how much time toddlers and other little learners – dubbed The Touch-Screen Generation in a recent Atlantic article –should engage with screens is becoming more of an obsession in a high tech world. Is screen time bad?”. What happens when it [screen time] means talking with Grandma?

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ED Surge

JULY 7, 2022

You don’t want to read 30 articles,” the professor says, “you want to read seven.” After her daughter was born, Ruth Cady enrolled in two classes at a local community college: psychology and biology. She found a map of Bermuda, some journal articles and stories published on History.com. What is happening?’”

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

Like many teachers, I would tap into the the Library of Congress, which would give me tips for teaching with primary sources , including quarterly journal articles on topics such as integrating historical and geographic thinking. web site from the National Endowment for the Humanities, including a very popular set for AP U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2024

This model, which I reported on in an article last year for The Hechinger Report and Scientific American, requires a significant “discrepancy” between a child’s IQ and achievement to establish a learning disability, making it hard for children with lower IQs to qualify. It even happens in preschool, this withholding of academic supports.”

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Shuck is a professor of human resource and organizational development at the University of Louisville and co-founder of the start-up OrgVitals. It is often not the big fanfare, not the big program, not the big platform, not the human resource movement, although those things are necessary at times. I call this the cumulative principle.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. But research in cognitive developmental psychology is starting to cast doubt on this notion of childhood egocentrism. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license.

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Strange Maps

JULY 13, 2023

It sounds like something cooked up after hours in the back alley between the geography and psychology departments. These traits help explain many aspects of human behavior. Download a PDF of the article here.) This article Geopsychology: Your personality depends on where you live is featured on Big Think.

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Psych Learning Curve

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Writing a strong resumé for robot and human readers (Eye on Psi Chi) Thus, many companies have turned to automated software to help them discriminate among resumés. The current controversy about teaching reading: Comments for those left with questions after reading the new york times article.

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Anthropology News

AUGUST 11, 2024

Some might think that the height of his medical career was when he gave draftee Elvis Presley his physical and psychological examination, but for Len it was his service as an intern at Charity Hospital in New Orleans. Len is best known to historians of anthropology for an article published in 1982 that began a small academic industry.

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ED Surge

MARCH 29, 2023

Doug Lemov, bestselling author and founder of “ Teach Like a Champion ,” a nationally recognized organization that provides resources for effective teaching, asserts that teachers should not be solely responsible for the psychological impact of students’ technology usage. Teachers already have a daunting list of educational priorities.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 13, 2018

This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. In fact, Piaget believed that children’s mental development progresses in the same way historians believe human thought progressed over historical time: from mythical to logical thinking. Read the original article.

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Jonathan Firth

DECEMBER 11, 2019

None of these ideas are supported by mainstream psychological science; a linked study of psychology researchers found 0% endorsement in every case. It’s true that it is possible to overload learners by presenting too much at once – human working memory can only process a certain amount of information at a time.

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Cult of Pedagogy

AUGUST 20, 2023

There’s human development and linguistics and neuroscience and psychology and special education and speech language pathology. That’s because the Science of Reading continues to evolve as more contributions are made from many different disciplines. I could go on and on.”

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 30, 2018

The net of medical and psychological services that support children outside of school is riddled with holes, which makes services within the school system all the more important. Instead of them being penalized for being little humans, they’re going to be given coping skills and mechanisms to help them be little humans,” Kali said.

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Anthropology 365

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

After the shooting, I was invited to co-author an article on academic trauma for the American Journal of Human Biology. The mass shooting on April 30th was a pivotal moment for me, emphasizing the vital need to promote the well-being of my students and colleagues.

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Political Science Now

MARCH 12, 2024

Her research has appeared in Political Psychology , Health Affairs , Politics, Groups and Identities , and the Journal of Women, Politics and Policy , among others. She has published several articles on disability in political science journals, including The Journal of Politics and Politics, Groups, and Identities, among other outlets.

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Sapiens

JANUARY 9, 2024

This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished with Creative Commons. ✽ The idea of “Man the Hunter” runs deep within anthropology, convincing people that hunting made us human, only men did the hunting, and therefore evolutionary forces must only have acted upon men.

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Anthropology News

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

In the case of international development, it was not a matter of material reparation or a revision in the global balance of power, but was instead a matter of overcoming one’s psychological biases inherited from the prior colonial era. In this article, I begin with a brief overview of SBS in DRG work.

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Sapiens

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

In 2016, as a master’s student, I published an article in Boston University’s Pardee Periodical (now The Pardee Atlas: Journal of Global Affairs ) about a new initiative at the ASDC to support their students. Many of the people I know through my research in Jordan are Palestinian, have family in Palestine, and/or are of Palestinian descent.

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Life and Landscapes

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

One proton and one electron, the “lighter than air” gas that you do not want in your dirigible [remember the Hindenburg Zeppelin and “Oh the humanity …”]. The first use of lithium with humans was for the treatment of gout, physical pain in the joints caused by the accumulation of uric acid crystals.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2024

In 1950, amid the fervor of McCarthyism, the Yale Law Journal delved into a controversy between The Nation and The New York City Board of Education after the left-leaning magazine published articles critical of Roman Catholic church doctrine and dogma. The school board voted to remove The Nation from school libraries.

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