Critical Thinking Humanities Psychology 
The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 13, 2020
In September 2019, I wrote about a review of the research on how to teach critical thinking by University of Virginia professor Daniel Willingham. A large study on teaching science to middle school students was published afterwards and it adds more nuance to this debate between critical thinking skills and content knowledge.
The Hechinger Report
SEPTEMBER 9, 2019
Critical thinking is all the rage in education. Some argue that critical thinking should be the primary purpose of education and one of the most important skills to have in the 21st century, with advanced machines and algorithms replacing manual and repetitive labor. Higher Education. Mississippi Learning. Proof Points.
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Psychology Sorted
JUNE 25, 2024
In case you hadn’t heard, there’s a new IB Diploma psychology curriculum coming soon. All Year 1 Diploma psychology students will be studying it from September 2025. The new psychology guide won’t be published until Feb/March 2025, but teachers don’t need to wait till then to start preparing.
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. Human hygiene is taken as an example. This particular activity comes on the heels of a discussion of cultural universals in comparative perspective.
The Hechinger Report
APRIL 11, 2018
Kate Allender, of Tesla STEM High School, has designed a course integrating AP Psychology with a hands-on study of forensics. It’s not until the second-period bell rings, however, that you begin to see how different this is from a traditional psychology course. Photo: Amadou Diallo, for The Hechinger Report. REDMOND, Wash. —
The Hechinger Report
DECEMBER 5, 2018
High school students are also teenagers, though, and while they may be technologically savvy, they are often psychologically unsophisticated and eager to be part of a cause or group — making them easy marks for the purveyors of misinformation. Some of the Parkland survivors received death threats that cited such “news” stories.
The Hechinger Report
FEBRUARY 18, 2022
Related: The number of college graduates in the humanities drops for the eighth consecutive year. The majors whose graduates tend to earn the lowest salaries after graduation are majors such as theater, studio art, creative writing, psychology and anthropology.
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