A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 10, 2013

Millan’s Sociology students learned how to use and create their own blog using Blogger from their Gmail accounts. She discussed the purposes and goals of blogging and allowed students to create their own blog based on a guided question from her site.

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Teaching Anthropology

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

There have been course-grained sociological studies on students perceptions of AI (e.g. Combined with our academic training, we take an etic perspective that focuses on the big picture of AI use in higher education. But what about the individuals? What is motivating students to use AI? Has anyone actually asked them? Are they overworked?

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Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 13, 2020

You can find a great list of web tools on Catlin’s blog. She is a veteran social studies teacher who has taught Sociology, US History, World History, Anthropology, and Psychology. She began writing a blog called “A Blended Learning Journey” to share her experiences implementing blended learning.

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ShortCutsTV

MARCH 1, 2025

The next Collection in a series that includes Learning Mats, Revision Resources, Simulations and the ever-popular Introductory Sociology, brings together all the Flipbook posts dotted around the Blog I could find and puts them into one handy cut-out-and-keep post. Don’t thank me.

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Passion for Social Studies

MAY 13, 2024

By joining the email list, you will receive freebies for blog-exclusive subscribers! Wrap up the year with this Sociology project! Political Socialization Lesson $ 6.00 Add to cart Socialization Test $ 5.00 Add to cart Socialization Unit $ 30.00

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Teaching Anthropology

MARCH 7, 2024

About the Authors Shelene Gomes (she/her), PhD teaches Social Anthropology and the Sociology of Culture at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine campus in Trinidad and Tobago. She is a 2023-2024 Visiting Scholar in Residence at the University of Cape Town’s Department of Anthropology.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

DECEMBER 17, 2018

As a faculty member who has an outsized social media presence ( 53,000+ Twitter followers ; video series with 100+ million views ; one of the top education blogs in the world , etc.), Tressie McMillan Cottom, @tressiemcphd , tressiemc.com (sociology and higher education) . blog posts. Related Posts. The promise of the digital.

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This Is Not a Sociology Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2020

We had a really good chat about his work and its importance for sociology but it was also interesting to hear Lisa’s take on his significance for criminology. For episode 2 of the Social Theory Podcast I spoke to Dr Lisa Long about the monumentally important sociologist and activist WEB Du Bois.

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ShortCutsTV

MARCH 18, 2024

This spin-off from the burgeoning Sociological Detectives Universe™ is a vehicle by which you can simply and not-a-little-secretly introduce a soupcon of Study Skills into what we’re contractually obliged to call “The Student eXperience” (sic).

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ShortCutsTV

MAY 11, 2024

As with their Sociology counterpart, Lumen Learning also supply a range of Psychology PowerPoint Presentations to support their (free) online Psychology course and complement the equally-free Openstax Introduction to Psychology Textbook.

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Norton Learning - Sociology

JANUARY 14, 2021

Janis Prince is an associate professor of sociology and chair of the Department of Social Sciences at Saint Leo University. She has taught at least 16 unique sociology classes, including the sociology of deviance, gender, race, medical sociology, along with quantitative and qualitative methods.

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Anthropology 365

MARCH 31, 2025

After nearly six years, I am pleased to say that I’ve accepted a faculty appointment at the University of Texas at Arlington in environment and sustainability, housed in the Department Sociology and Anthropology. I’m honored to have been selected to join the department alongside brilliant and kind scholars.

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This Is Not a Sociology Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2017

1995) ‘The rise of surveillance medicine’ Sociology of Health & Illness, 17(3): 393-404. This will involve discussion of psychological, psychiatric and neuroscientific therapies, experiments and scans which have modelled our consciousness and ultimately what it means to be a human being in profoundly different ways. Armstrong, D.

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Digital Promise

JULY 24, 2015

candidate in Sociology at Stanford University. Here are some steps researchers can take to communicate their findings to a broader audience: Sharing academic findings through blogging, social media, and videos that can act as translational research , which explains scholarly work.

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Teaching Anthropology

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

In a 1934 lecture on techniques of the body, for example, Marcel Mauss argued that studies of movement should attend concomitantly to biological, sociological and psychological facets. Anthropologists and others have long been drawn to the pragmatics and theoretics of hygiene.

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Teaching Anthropology

MAY 8, 2023

Following this, I asked students to apply both Mauss’ and Sahlin’s theories to a real-life situation they have encountered.

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ShortCutsTV

JANUARY 24, 2025

For those who prefer their information in a more-colourful magazine-style format than bare-bones blog posts, Ive put the two recent Marshmallow Test posts together in an online flipbook format that adds to the growing collection Ive put together over the years.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 10, 2020

Sciences of learning recognizes that many sciences inform our understanding of how people learn, such as neuroscience, psychology, sociology, anthropology, and more. These terms represent distinct research traditions and inform our understanding in different and complementary ways.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

We could search for pins on Native American history , Middle East cultures , Japanese history , government , geography , sociology , psychology , economics , and numerous other topics. For instance, we could use the Civilization video games to learn and blog about political power and civics.

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Political Science Now

APRIL 26, 2024

Castañeda Pérez is an interdisciplinary scholar at the intersection of law, sociology and political science. Her work has been published in Politics, Groups, and Identities, and in academic blogs such as NACLA and the NYU Latinx Project Intervenxions Blog. Dr. Sarah E.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2021

Cynthia Stretch and John O’Connor, who teach English and sociology, respectively, at different campuses in the Connecticut State University System, are among faculty protesting a proposal to increase their teaching loads from four courses a semester to five. There’s a fundamental disrespect for these students.”.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Hernandez Professor, Department of Sociology Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York and Senior Advisor, Foundation for Child Development. Swan et al. unesco.org/fileadmin/MULTIMEDIA/HQ/ED/GMR/pdf/gmr2010/MDG2010_Facts_and_Figures_EN.pdf. data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.IMRT.IN. litworld.org/10000globalgirls.

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C3 Teachers

JUNE 6, 2024

I have argued in past blogs that using the compelling question well represents one avenue a teacher can take in order to introduce and deliberate controversial questions in the classroom. For the past several years I have taught a sociology course to high schoolers in which we tackle some very controversial issues.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 1, 2018

A wide range of departments including engineering, anthropology, classics, history, English, sociology and philosophy participate in its teaching. It is an interdisciplinary course that uses multiple perspectives to understand materials innovation. And the responses come from students across the different majors.

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C3 Teachers

JUNE 6, 2024

I have argued in past blogs that using the compelling question well represents one avenue a teacher can take in order to introduce and deliberate controversial questions in the classroom. For the past several years I have taught a sociology course to high schoolers in which we tackle some very controversial issues.

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This Is Not a Sociology Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2017

In the previous two posts in this series I outlined how some of the key theories which are used in my Biosocieties module including Martin Heidegger’s analysis of modern technology’s instrumentalist approach to the world, Michel Foucault’s critique of the role of “technologies of the self” in constructing how we understand our bodies and minds and (..)

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This Is Not a Sociology Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

In this post I will discuss the impact of the collection and analysis of “ big data ”; specifically health data.

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This Is Not a Sociology Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2020

This first episode of my new Social Theory Podcast discusses the work of one of the greatest thinkers of all time in any field, Karl Marx. The guests are Tom Houseman and Joseph Ibrahim both of Leeds Beckett University in the UK. See the end of this post for links to the episode.

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Let's Cultivate Greatness

JULY 5, 2023

This helps me keep this blog running. I also have them for Civics or Sociology. This post contains affiliate links, and I may earn a small commission when you purchase them at no additional cost to you. Setting a classroom that works is tough—it’s a massive task compared to putting a few prints up in an office cubicle.

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Jonathan Firth

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Most college lecturers in Scotland deliver the HNC or HND in Social Sciences (Higher National Certificate/Diploma – equivalent in level to 1st year or 2nd year of a degree respectively), including elements of Psychology but also of disciplines such as Politics and Sociology. Some have their own degree programmes, too.

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This Is Not a Sociology Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Embed from Getty Images In previous posts in this series I have discussed how devices such as X-ray, CT and EEG scans produce representations of the internal structures and processes of the body while reformulating and extending the “medical gaze” into new areas.

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This Is Not a Sociology Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Embed from Getty Images This is one of a series of posts that I am writing alongside a module I am teaching on “Digital Societies”. In this series I have been putting down some thoughts about topics which are broadly relevant to the module but not covered in teaching.

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This Is Not a Sociology Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2017

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.

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ShortCutsTV

MARCH 27, 2024

Although Anticipation Guides are similar to pre-questioning in both form and purpose – they encourage much the same kinds of skills – there are significant differences between the two approaches.

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ShortCutsTV

APRIL 24, 2024

In the normal course of events Power Notes are a simple way to organise your note-taking. If push-comes-to-shove, however, they can also be a very effective way to re-organise your conventional linear notes to make them more revision-friendly.

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ShortCutsTV

APRIL 12, 2024

You know that thing they say about buses – you wait ages for one and then two arrive at once? Well, by what some might call a mysterious and inexplicable coincidence, the same seems to be true of PowerPoint Presentations on religion. Having seen neither hide nor hair of anything vaguely religious-looking on the site […]

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ShortCutsTV

JANUARY 29, 2024

Short set of Notes on a kind of complementary, albeit less revolutionary, approach to understanding crime and deviance that you can either lump-in with Critical Criminology or treat as a separate, neo-critical, perspective. Your choice. But let’s just hope it’s the right one, for everyone’s sake… Left Realism: A Young Man’s Game?

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