The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

This story also appeared in Mind/Shift But those same students don’t have many of the math skills that professors think they actually do need. But that’s maybe 20 percent. The other 80 percent, what about them?” Majors that require calculus were excluded.

High School 143

High School K-12 Social Science Humanities 143

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2023

She said, “Let’s give them the data points to critically think and draw conclusions.” Broadly speaking, she said, in indigenous traditions, it’s the latter. In most of education we think knowledge leads to difference in behavior,” she said. Social science does not support that.

Teaching 96

Teaching K-12 Professional Development Civics 96

Political Science Now

APRIL 12, 2024

Utrata connects these contemporary ambitions on space to historical events and the logic of colonization, indicating how these ambitions are rooted in a long tradition of exploiting new lands for the benefit of others. Rather, it is an invitation to critically think about our ambitions and their impacts.

Political Science 62

Political Science Government Social Science Tradition 62

TCI

MARCH 1, 2024

Geography education plays a pivotal role in cultivating global awareness and critical thinking. Integration of Economics and Civics for Real-World Connections Geography is only one of the social science disciplines. The much-loved Geography Alive! Watch this video that introduces the Monsoon Asia unit.

Geography 59

Geography Global Connections Global Perspectives Civics 59

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2017

LINC supported social science research on artists’ working conditions and career-building strategies, as well as how the for-profit cultural industries (motion pictures, recorded music, book publishers, commercial theatre) benefit from artists’ on-the-job learning in the nonprofit arts.

Cultures 70

Cultures Economics Social Science Critical Thinking 70

Sapiens

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Scholars in the social sciences and humanities must put our ethical values and critical thinking tools to work to explicitly challenge such “post-truth” distortions. To start, this means insisting that a scholar’s work is more than their social media presence. Protecting their freedom of speech alone is not enough.

Anthropology 141

Anthropology Human Rights Humanities Cultures 141

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Its making clear that the skills of engineers and computer scientists increase if you include the arts, the humanities, the social sciences. The superpowers of the future emanate from the humanities: introspection and imagination, storytelling and story-listening, critical thinking. Its a question weve ignored.

Humanities 136

Humanities Leadership Social Science Anthropology 136