ED Surge

AUGUST 4, 2023

Understanding the Psyche of Technological Resistance in the Education Workforce Resistance to change, especially technological change , is fundamentally anchored in our human psychology. Typically, humans have an inclination toward safety and the predictability of routine, avoiding the uncertainty that comes with new terrain.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The drop in college graduates who majored in humanities ranges between 16 percent and 29 percent since 2012. The last time colleges produced this few humanities graduates was in 2002. As the economy recovered, so did the humanities. The last time colleges produced this few humanities graduates was in 2002.

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Teaching Anthropology

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

ELIZABETH KEATING, Professor of Anthropology & Graduate Faculty, Human Dimensions of Organizations, The University of Texas at Austin Teaching through research is recognized as one of the strengths of anthropology. One of the most powerful questions they asked is a question about space: “What was the home you grew up in like?”

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Shuck is a professor of human resource and organizational development at the University of Louisville and co-founder of the start-up OrgVitals. 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?

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Schools need to tap into the same sense of wonder that led early humans to seek unifying stories to explain their place in the world — and teachers need to do more to incorporate myths, jokes and riddles into curriculum and teaching practices, from the earliest grades up through high school. You can't have a culture without having metaphors.

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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. This particular activity comes on the heels of a discussion of cultural universals in comparative perspective. Human hygiene is taken as an example.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 21, 2024

You can understand someone else's culture, what they celebrate, what they honor and what they believe in, without personally asking. Her words describe the transformative power of reading — a skill that, unlike spoken language, humans are not naturally hardwired to master. Are they culturally relevant for our kids?

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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. No matter what, the thoughts need to start with the human user and end with the human user,” she stresses. Stuff before involved humans and was static.

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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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Anthropology for Beginners

JANUARY 3, 2021

In classical sense society refers to a group of people who share a common ‘culture’, occupy a particular territorial area and feel themselves to constitute a unified and distinct entity (Frisby and Sayer 1986). A society is made up of a population, organisation, time, place and interest.” This ever changing and complex system is society.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 28, 2018

Thanks to discoveries in the fields of organizational psychology and neuroscience, we can gain a better understanding of what human traits or behaviors are best suited for leadership, and why they are of benefit to the organizations and teams these individuals lead. Case in point.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

These stories of resilience and triumph allowed me to see my own humanity as a Black person, something I later realized I desperately needed. I needed to learn about my people in order for me to see my own humanity, and for the students I’ve taught over the past 13 years, I know this to be true.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 10, 2024

The event provides leadership development skills, offers a psychologically safe space to process our experiences and nurtures the spirit of brotherhood and community needed to sustain our worth and our work. At this year’s retreat, Lester Young Jr., After a week of contemplation, I found myself wondering why we can’t do both.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Research on the physical, psychological and academic benefits of outdoor learning for kids is well-established, and is now informing the development of climate education. He will say that he talks to the children about the rhythms of nature, and humans’ place in the world. Here in Albuquerque there’s different cultures.

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Anthropology News

AUGUST 11, 2024

Some might think that the height of his medical career was when he gave draftee Elvis Presley his physical and psychological examination, but for Len it was his service as an intern at Charity Hospital in New Orleans. Len Glick’s contributions to the cultural and intellectual life of that area of Massachusetts will be missed.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 2, 2021

Until now, the work has been done by students of sociology and psychology and anthropology. We understand that a person has very many intersecting identities – race, culture, ethnicity, social class, education,” Grohowski said. For almost as long as there have been wars, there have been people who study veterans.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 9, 2024

Why All of Us Could Use a Lesson in ‘Thinking 101’ Human brains are wired to think in ways that often lead to biased decisions or incorrect assumptions. A new AI chatbot can spit out long-form answers to just about any question, in a way that sounds eerily human. What Will ChatGPT Mean for Teaching?

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Anthropology has been quite slow to embrace Helen Schwartzman’s insight in The Meeting: Gatherings in Organizations and Communities (1989) that meetings offer a vital window into collective human projects and organizations. Solitary confinement is torture, as defined by the United Nations and many of the world’s human rights organizations.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Her research examines the conditions for justice during internal armed conflict, human rights prosecutions, transitional justice in post-communist Eastern European states, gender equality in post-conflict settings, and justice efforts in democracies. Research interests include social movements, social justice and cultural genocide.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 16, 2024

1947–2023 Dr. Karen Ito was a dedicated anthropologist, committed to promoting the understanding of the diversity of human cultural experience, with significant and wide-ranging contributions to the field of anthropology. She studied anthropology at UCLA, earning her BA in 1969, MA in 1973, and PhD in 1978.

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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. It's a very simple mechanism — it’s a cultural confirmation bias. …

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

More broadly, nearly 73 percent in the Fall 2021 American College Health Association National College Health Assessment survey reported moderate or serious psychological distress. Yet this is about more than counselor numbers; students are pressing for an array of tools and, critically, a culture shift. Counselor burnout is real.)

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Strange Maps

JULY 13, 2023

It sounds like something cooked up after hours in the back alley between the geography and psychology departments. But the significant degree of variation for most of the characteristics illustrates that the state is far from culturally monolithic. These traits help explain many aspects of human behavior.

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Maitri Learning

APRIL 29, 2023

The answer is a resounding YES! In some ways, children are most certainly different today than they were even five years ago because we humans are biologically programmed to adapt to our culture: our time, place, and group. Humans have been doing this since we became a species. But that is actually not news.

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Maitri Learning

APRIL 29, 2023

The answer is a resounding YES! In some ways, children are most certainly different today than they were even five years ago because we humans are biologically programmed to adapt to our culture: our time, place, and group. Humans have been doing this since we became a species. But that is actually not news.

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This Is Not a Sociology Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2017

David Armstrong (1995) has famously analysed the emergence of what he refers to as “surveillance medicine” this involves the extension of the “medical gaze” from the human body and its biology into social spaces. This is partly because of a change in the kinds of diseases which are most prominent in Western societies.

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ED Surge

JUNE 28, 2023

She says it all comes down to the basic human need to feel cared for and to be part of a community. So in my culture, I would answer the question,” Mentor recalls. And I think that the humanity is missing in these orientations that we have,” Mentor says. I would stop to start saying how I am. But in the U.S., “the

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2023

The reason why guided play is so effective is because it reflects these key characteristics of decades and decades of research of how we know how human brains learn best. Traditionally, certain cultures have valued free play or direct instruction more than others, but things seem to be changing.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 3, 2024

Even scarcer is mental health support from providers who can give culturally responsive care. One is that the work of counselors is isolating and can lead to psychological burnout, said Inger Burnett-Zeigler, associate professor of psychology at Northwestern’s Feinberg School of Medicine. Only 5 percent of U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2020

But Ron Dahl, who directs the Institute for Human Development at the University of California, Berkeley, argues that adolescence is actually a second opportunity to invest in children because of the enormous brain development during this period. This is the “ human connectome ” and each person’s is unique, like a fingerprint.

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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. “As a human, the criticism doesn’t feel good,” Duckworth said. Choose as many as you like.

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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.”. If you know your culture, if you know where you come from, you’re stronger,” she said. What we’re trying to do is revive our culture,” she said. “So

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

You can’t interview Asians because they won’t say anything substantive due to the norms of their culture,” she said. Our humanity matters, but our unique experiences also matter. And what depth of knowledge, background, or experience gives you the authority to speak on what works best culturally for Asians anyway? Wait, what?

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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. Part of that reimagining must include the elimination of numeric and letter grades as we have known them in the past.

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Anthropology for Beginners

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

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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!”) Leave this field empty if you're human: And there’s evidence for that effect. Or as Evans points out: “We define restorative justice as a shift in culture.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Whether my own kids are “good at school” or not, how do I make sure that the culture of academic pressure and urgency in school doesn’t negatively impact their self-worth? What psychological and spiritual damage would this cause? Many students are harmed by this urgency—I was harmed by this urgency. I don’t know.

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