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.
The Hechinger Report
FEBRUARY 10, 2025
A ‘Knowledge Revival’ A 2025 book by 10 education researchers in Europe and Australia, Developing Curriculum for Deep Thinking: The Knowledge Revival , makes the case that students cannot learn the skills of comprehension and critical thinking unless they know a lot of stuff first.
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
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.
The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 29, 2018
Businesspeople need to understand human nature more than ever before. Sometimes, executives need to break the rules and think outside the proverbial box. Still, to understand human nature, leaders need to do more than crunch numbers. But they will be rendered meaningless without the human touch. Weekly Update.
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