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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The Effortful Educator

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Ive talked about this a bit in this previous article about attention contagion. I guess, intuitively, I believed that attention contagion was a real presence in the traditional classroom, but that it exists in the online world is a bit of a surprise. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied , 27 (2), 276. McLean, D.

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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. In the early 1970s, Lester, known in court documents as Larry P.,

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2018

The field of science is ever changing and advancing, but the fair sticks to fairly rigid, traditional rules. As she wrote in a Huffington Post article : “[B]y getting rid of the stupid competition aspect, we wouldn’t have kids (or, let’s be clear, parents) competing to see who does the coolest project.”. went viral a few years ago.

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 25, 2024

The Impact of Teacher Control When teachers exert total control over the curriculum, pacing, and behavior in a classroom, they stifle student autonomy—a fundamental psychological need essential for motivation. Companies are prioritizing skills and competencies over traditional qualifications, creating a more diverse and adaptable workforce.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 3, 2023

So on the first day of my educational psychology class, I say … my job isn't to make sure that you're never uncomfortable. Kathryn Kay Coquemont: I want to compare something that happened in my formal education with what I think is happening with our current traditional-age college students' education. That's become harder to do.

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Psych Learning Curve

JANUARY 27, 2020

We continue our exploration of the field of Industrial-Organizational (I-O) Psychology, the American Psychological Association’s Division 14. I-O Psychology is the study of behavior in the workplace. in I-O Psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2011. Louis Tay received his Ph.D.

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Anthropology News

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Courses in history, psychology, sociology, and political science are often part of the core curricula in journalism programs,” writes Paula Horvath in Journalism & Mass Communication Educator. I reached out to the authors of these articles and other scholars from that time to ask just that. What happened?

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Now, several years later, after pursuing a degree in psychology and taking courses in child development, Foster is more educated about Montessori education and realizes little about the “Montessori garden” actually adhered to Montessori practice. “This woman was not interested in Montessori education,” Foster said on a recent afternoon.

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Political Science Now

APRIL 3, 2024

We argue that civilians’ indirect exposure to war fatalities can trigger psychological processes that increase identification with their nation and ultimately strengthen support for nationalist parties. Read the full article. We test this argument in the context of the rise of the Nazi Party after World War 1 (WW1).

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Psych Learning Curve

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

The new PhD (The Chronicle of Higher Education) Many doctoral students will not go on to tenure-track professorships, so why should they devote their grad school years to producing a traditional dissertation mainly of value inside academe? ” I thought some background for people like my friend might be useful.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 20, 2016

This article originally appeared on Usable Knowledge from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. They described their roles in students’ lives as extending beyond those of traditional instructors, and most said they stepped into those roles willingly. To read more research-based articles on education, visit Usable Knowledge.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 9, 2016

In 1978, just a few years before Helgeson’s birth, the American Indian Religious Freedom Act became law, finally affirming the right of country’s indigenous people to access sacred sites, worship in traditional ceremonies and use materials they consider sacred artifacts, like eagle bones, that are restricted to non-Indians.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 30, 2018

The Orleans Parish School Board, which controlled all city schools before Hurricane Katrina, was responsible for a small number of high-performing traditional and charter schools. Berk declined to comment for this article. ” Even so, the New Orleans school system still differs substantially from a traditional district.

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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 movement to “decolonize pedagogy” is the process of moving away from representing our disciplines with traditional sources – mostly White men. However, there is more that we can do.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2020

What is this article about?”. The article is about the trip,” I told Endiah. Douglass student Ivyierra Washington into a traditional Garifuna dress. Martinez pointed the students toward a hut filled with traditional Garifuna clothes, and Endiah slinked behind as the other girls ran toward a rack of gingham dresses.

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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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This Is Not a Sociology Blog

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

This approach is considered to be slightly different to traditional forms of propaganda as rather than trying to convey a message to a particular group or individual it sought to affect their decision-making process by manipulating their perception of reality.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

Along the way, with Caleb under doctors’ care, the Agnews tried a variety of medications to help him with his psychological problems, together with family and individual therapy. And still they could do nothing to improve their son’s education as he got shuttled from one GNETS center to another. Some of this helped. We will never know.”.

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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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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

What we are reading All-charter no more: New Orleans opens its first traditional school in nearly two decades My colleague, Ariel Gilreath, reports on the opening of the first traditional school run by the New Orleans school district since Hurricane Katrina devastated the city.

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