Cult of Pedagogy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

My guest is Dave Edwards, an educator who works to teach these principles through his brand-new book, Gender-Inclusive Schools ( Amazon | Bookshop.org ), and his website of the of the same name. As the parent of a transgender daughter who has experienced discrimination, Dave’s mission is a personal one. What should I have said?

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

I’ve been reading popular management books and academic literature in pursuit of answers. Right now, culture is probably the most important thing that leaders can be thinking about. McClure: How does engagement connect to a concept like workplace culture? Is engagement kind of a necessary precondition for building culture?

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 25, 2019

We create a culture in our classrooms, establish norms and routines, and seek to influence our students. However, external motivators, as Daniel Pink articulates in his book Drive , are not effective long-term. Journal of Educational Psychology , 91(3), 537. Organizational Dynamics , 18 (3), 19-31. Bolt, E., & Cai, Y.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Every year ACX, as the blog is often called, hosts a book review contest, and the latest winner summarizes Egan’s 1997 book, “ The Educated Mind: How Cognitive Tools Shape Our Understanding.” And he spent months writing his review of Egan’s book — a hefty summary that clocks in at more than 23,000 words.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Two meta-analyses on growth mindset were published online in the fall of 2022 in the journal Psychological Bulletin and arrived at opposite conclusions about one of the most popular ideas in education. How could two such studies come out within just three weeks of each other in Psychological Bulletin and arrive at opposite conclusions?

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ED Surge

AUGUST 21, 2024

Like, if someone's talking to me and I'm reading a book, I wouldn't hear them,” says Aylynn, an eighth grader in Pendergast Elementary District in Phoenix, Arizona. You can understand someone else's culture, what they celebrate, what they honor and what they believe in, without personally asking.

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Teaching Anthropology

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

A few years ago, as I was researching culture change across generations, I brought my research into the classroom by asking students to do some research in their own families. Embodied space (s) anthropological theories of body, space, and culture. Space and culture , 6(1), 9-18. New York: Penguin Random House. Nicolson, P.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Calls for book banning and censorship have become common. These dangerous culture wars will wreak havoc on education and education policy for years to come. Who suffers the most? The students. We must do this through teaching, learning and advocacy — as well as social activism and civic engagement.

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Life and Landscapes

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The Sentinel-News: Local author explores Kentucky’s surroundings in new book While countless books have been written about the historic Fort Knox, Shelbyville native Ronald R. The story can be found in the back of “Surrounding Fort Knox” and is also sold as a standalone book. Van Stockum Jr.

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A Psychology Teacher Writes

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The challenge, then, for PD is to use these levers to secure engagement (note: this is not about some rather sinister form of psychological manipulation to ‘trick’ people into engaging or getting buy-in; it’s about finding ways to explicitly show that people’s perceived individual needs are actually in alignment with whole-school goals).

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Some parents are really worried about Covid and their child getting sick, but one of the main reasons is about culture. We want them to know a lot about their culture.”. The group connects Muslim home-schoolers in Southern California by hosting events and providing resources, such as books and curriculum. You’re stronger minded.

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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. EdSurge: Why is there a need for this book on how to reason better? They're so dumb.’

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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. In Redfield’s book The Folk Culture of Yucatan (1941), he expressed an embryonic concern with the concept of world view.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2018

Anne Gregory, an associate professor of psychology at Rutgers University, recalls just such a scenario when an angry high school student shouted an expletive (“F— off!”) One such translator is Kathy Evans, an associate professor of education at Eastern Mennonite University, co-author of The Little Book of Restorative Justice in Education.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 3, 2023

The discussion tackled plenty of thorny issues facing K-12 and college instructors these days, including how to respond to pressures to ban books in schools, how to make classrooms a welcoming place for debate as schools and colleges grow more diverse, and how to respond to misinformation that students bring to classroom conversations.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2021

Grades are too often used as weapons that can create psychological and emotional harm to young people whose experiences, cultural practices and behaviors are incompatible with their schools and educators. He is the author or editor of several books, including “Start Where You Are, But Don’t Stay There.”

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2021

By recruiting and then mentoring new teachers of color, listening to these teachers’ requests, supporting the development of culturally responsive curricula and promoting educators of color into administrative and district leadership positions, Phoenix Union is getting steadily closer to aligning its teacher and student populations.

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Anthropology for Beginners

AUGUST 17, 2023

By contrast, ethnography is the systematic description of a single contemporary culture, often through ethnographic field. Women practitioners and indigenous experts have been documenting society and culture quite like an ethnographer during the era when 19 th century evolutionism was the dominant paradigm.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2019

“Grit,” a best-selling book by University of Pennsylvania professor Angela Duckworth, may have swept parenting and education pop culture but research scholars say they are finding mounting evidence that it doesn’t add up. Duckworth has no immediate plans for revising her grit scales. “Grades might, for some people, but not many.”

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ED Surge

AUGUST 1, 2024

At colleges and universities, there's a culture of professors grabbing materials from the web without always citing them. While there are major organizations including the Modern Language Association and the American Psychological Association that have issued guidelines on citing generative AI, he says the approaches remain clunky.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2023

Marvin Dunn, a former professor of psychology at Florida International University and a specialist in the state’s Black history, told the Daily Beast on Thursday that the latest African American studies ban “means an insult to me, it means an injury to me.” Books from a pilot African American studies course now banned in Florida by Gov.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2022

The pandemic era’s wide-scale disruption also makes it a good time to consider changing long-held educational practices, said Robert Talbert, a math professor at Grand Valley State University in Michigan who is co-writing a book about new ways of assessing students and has tried some in his own classes.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Kanold, an award-winning educator, author and national thought leader in mathematics and professional learning communities (PLCs), has co-authored numerous best-selling books and conducted professional development seminars worldwide. Tina Boogren , another leading expert in educator wellness.

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A Psychology Teacher Writes

JANUARY 21, 2024

In some instances the coachee will offer both the problem and the solution together: “I realised when I set the retrieval questions that some of them were going straight to their books to look up the answers. I should have told them to keep books closed and that they had to try for themselves.”

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ED Surge

JANUARY 9, 2024

A Yale University psychology professor has gathered highlights of what research says about the most common human thinking errors into a popular class at the university that she recently turned into a book.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 22, 2022

Latino students may be grappling with heated debates on immigration policy that affect their loved ones, or the challenges of straddling two different cultures. Research shows mental health treatment is more effective when it’s in line with the client’s culture and when clients perceive their therapist to be culturally competent.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 23, 2020

Meanwhile, cultural institutions are relaxing rules and paywalls to offer much-needed diversion, like free streaming of Broadway musicals and plays, operas, online art programs and free downloads of books from public libraries. Related: Coronavirus is poised to inflame inequality in schools.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 28, 2019

Related: Universities increasingly turn to graduate programs to balance their books. To manage my family stress and my anxiety, which according to the American Psychological Association impacts 61 percent of college students, I sought counseling.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Jenifer Fox — who wrote the book “Your Child’s Strengths” and in 2014 helped create The Delta School in Wilson, Arkansas, which uses the strengths approach — went further, calling it “the magic bullet.”. Others use strength systems designed by the British Centre of Applied Positive Psychology or by Thrively, a California-based startup.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2021

When you’re the only one, you don’t have much choice but to conform to the culture. When there are many of you, you get to shape the culture.” When you’re the only one, you don’t have much choice but to conform to the culture,” she said. When there are many of you, you get to shape the culture.”.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

We could listen to podcasts on the geography of world cultures from Stanford University. We could search for pins on Native American history , Middle East cultures , Japanese history , government , geography , sociology , psychology , economics , and numerous other topics. million book images from the Internet Archive. .

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

Mingus Union reinforces an aspect of American culture that has educators believing they can teach students by punishing and shaming them. Batcho in a Psychology Today article last year. In the book “Hacking Classroom Culture,” authors Angela Stockman and Ellen Feig Gray show how ubiquitous shaming is. It isn’t right.

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Cult of Pedagogy

AUGUST 20, 2023

Despite my lack of training, I just intuitively did this using foam toy letters and a set of books called Pup and Pop. Jennifer Serravallo has written over 15 books and other resources about literacy instruction. “We have a lot of companies now creating books that are more supportive of early developing phonics skills.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2024

Even as California enacted the ban, IQ tests became central across the country to the relatively young and rapidly expanding field of school psychology. She finds it loaded with language that’s more familiar to middle-class white children and an overall bias “against cultural and linguistic minorities.”

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A Psychology Teacher Writes

MARCH 10, 2023

I’m coming at this from a Psychology perspective, and I’m thinking mostly about extended responses or essays. Scores on individual pieces of work don’t tell students ‘where they are’ Answers are too often completed ‘open-book’. But beyond these specific, and infrequent, situations, there is probably little merit in it.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

I never loved it,” Tough told me in a recent interview about his new book, The Years That Matter Most: How College Makes or Breaks Us. For his new book, Tough spent the last six years studying American higher education in 21 states and interviewing over 100 students as well as parents, professors and admissions officers, among others.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2017

Here’s a link to order the book associated with the study. Note: a print copy of the book costs $31. In my own teacher training many years ago, I took various courses in curriculum theory, classroom management, education history and educational psychology along with content-based courses like political science, economics and history.

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