Life and Landscapes

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

His new book, “Surrounding Fort Knox, Including Southern Indiana,” showcases Van Stockum’s journey through the counties around Southern Indiana and Fort Knox and details the area’s rich natural and cultural history. I write emotionally, and it moves me when I see it,” Van Stockum said. Off we go, and we find all kinds of new places.”

History 52

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TeachThought

APRIL 4, 2024

Keywords: socioeconomic status, informer choice, late-emerging reading development, standardized testings, student attainment, service-learning How Socioeconomic Status Influences Learning At the beginning of the school year, teachers are made aware of characteristics of their students in order to create accommodations.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

That’s according to a new study by the News Literacy Project, which also found that teens struggle with identifying false information online. This comes at a time when media literacy education isn’t available to most students, the report finds, and their ability to distinguish between objective and biased information sources is weak.

Civics 145

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Cult of Pedagogy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

” Principle 2: Protect Privacy and Confidentiality “All information related to a student’s sexual orientation and gender identity should be treated like private medical data,” Edwards says. “When a student changes their name and pronouns,” he offers, “who should be informed? .

Pedagogy 224

Pedagogy Psychology Library Social Justice 224

Anthropology for Beginners

AUGUST 17, 2023

By contrast, ethnography is the systematic description of a single contemporary culture, often through ethnographic field. Robert Henry Codrington's The Melanesians (1891) and Baldwin Spencer and Frank Gillen's The native tribes of central Australia (1899) exemplify this new, theoretically informed style of extended firsthand observation.

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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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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

These dangerous culture wars will wreak havoc on education and education policy for years to come. Earlier, the complete misrepresentation and misunderstanding of critical race theory signaled a disregard for the Black community and contempt for the importance of students learning about all people and cultures. Who suffers the most?

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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

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. Her watchwords are “cultural humility, cultural relevance and the cultural landscape.” Here in Albuquerque there’s different cultures.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

I live for these histories because they are grounded in formal and informal learning communities, whether in schools, public workshops or even my family home where I first saw the value of Black history. We discussed how they felt about Rivera’s racist statements and how Rivera’s opinions have informed White-centered histories.

History 105

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 28, 2023

Every year, schools face an ever-widening spectrum of needs in their classrooms, including students with different learning preferences, skills, abilities, cultural backgrounds, and language proficiencies. Technology is good at transferring information. Students can read articles, watch videos, and listen to podcasts to learn.

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ED Surge

JUNE 26, 2024

The Barriers Military Children Face The challenges families experience in military life can be a source of psychological stress, especially for children. Children are also facing changes with new or different teaching methods, expectations in classroom and school culture, and even unfamiliar technology and online learning processes.

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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. Is it because of all the information flowing at all of us these days?

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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.

Leadership 91

Leadership Psychology Humanities Public School 91

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 31, 2022

As a professor of psychology at Cornell University, Sternberg has long studied standardized tests, and concluded they don’t provide much useful information on whether students are learning to think critically and creatively, enabling them to be successful in college, careers and life in general. “We’re Subscribe today!

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Sapiens

JANUARY 24, 2024

I began researching Parkinson’s fighters and experiences of living with the disease over four years ago for my doctoral research in psychological and medical anthropology. That’s because, for one, exercise enhances plasticity, or the brain’s natural abilities to learn and encode new information. What matters is getting back up.

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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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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

In many schools, including ours, there has been a shift of how student behaviors are regulated—moving away from rules-based standards to ones driven by a set of values determined by the desired climate and culture of each school. This concept of the “ Cultural Iceberg ” was introduced in 1976 by Edward T.

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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 or grades on single pieces of work rarely help students improve What are students actually meant to do with this information? But beyond these specific, and infrequent, situations, there is probably little merit in it.

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ED Surge

JULY 31, 2023

The discrepancy stems from systemic factors like economic inequality, as well as cultural ones. A recent national survey conducted by the American Psychological Association found that more than 85 percent of psychologists are white. Families may believe that therapy is ‘a white people thing,’” Cherestal says.

Psychology 98

Psychology Project-Based Learning Cultures Economics 98

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Weight bias is part of American culture, said Rebecca Puhl,deputy director of the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Health at the University of Connecticut, who has studied childhood obesity and bias. She plans to study psychology. “I Teachers are not immune to those attitudes,” she said. .” I just want to help people.”

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ED Surge

MAY 20, 2024

But for Fiske, of Mysa, the popularity of alternatives to public school actually raises a concern: She fears that her approach to microschooling could be eclipsed by politics and cultural war clashes. While popular in some conservative circles, classical learning isn’t traditionally a byword for culture war politics.

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ED Surge

MAY 22, 2023

When we're focusing on immediate crisis response, we use concepts from what we call “psychological first aid,” and that's where we really emphasize establishing a sense of safety, predictability and consistency. What we want to do is create some immediate stabilization, and then we focus on long-term recovery. because they were really in it.

Psychology 115

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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

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.”. When we would try to inform the teacher, we would get called names.”. If you know your culture, if you know where you come from, you’re stronger,” she said.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

“When I present myself in front of students in a positive emotional state, I can increase student cognition, effort and long-term retention of information, Dr. Timothy Kanold excitedly shares. Now, I think of sleep as avoiding physical exhaustion, while rest is more about avoiding daily psychological exhaustion.

Education 84

Education Psychology Professional Development Cultures 84

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2023

It seems like parents are receiving these messages about the power of play, but perhaps they’re lacking the nuance and research-backed information to understand what type of play is most beneficial for learning. Traditionally, certain cultures have valued free play or direct instruction more than others, but things seem to be changing.

Psychology 93

Psychology Cultures Humanities Research 93

Anthropology for Beginners

AUGUST 17, 2023

It approaches the comparative study of human experience, behavior, facts, and artifacts from a dual sociocultural and psychological most often psychodynamic perspective.

Anthropology 100

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

According to Diane Hughes, a professor of applied psychology at New York University, “It’s well established that there’s no biological basis for race.” In our current culture, silence is compliance, so it is essential that we speak up. No person is born with hate and bias toward someone that looks or talks or acts different from them.

Education 108

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2022

By getting rid of grades, we get rid of crucial information that parents and students use to determine what they’re getting out of the expensive educations they’re paying for,” said Bradley Jackson, vice president of policy at the American Council of Trustees and Alumni. As the public university grew, it made grades mandatory in 2000.

Anthropology 142

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

That’s why I am pursuing a bachelor’s degree in psychology at the University of Tulsa in Oklahoma. But in order for more Native youth like me to be able to access college, institutions of higher learning need to address their ignorance of the realities, histories and cultures of Native communities.

Psychology 91

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2020

Leave this field empty if you're human: Dahl describes himself as a developmental scientist, practicing in a field that combines many subjects such as neuroscience, psychology and medicine. Culture is shaping it.”. What doesn’t work that well with teens is simply giving them information. Early Childhood.

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Anthropology News

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Courses in history, psychology, sociology, and political science are often part of the core curricula in journalism programs,” writes Paula Horvath in Journalism & Mass Communication Educator. Understanding what makes a story “newsworthy” is one area social scientists can quickly learn and apply to inform their foray into journalism.

Anthropology 52

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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. Accurate information directly impacts who gets what resources — aren’t you an educator and literal expert in communication and research? I broke that mold on the day that a substitute lecturer addressed my Ph.D.

Education 79

Education K-12 Psychology Cultures 79

Psych Learning Curve

JANUARY 31, 2020

More sleep and asking for help can help students with stress (KOAA) A recent nationwide survey by conducted the American Psychological Association found as many of 35 percent of high school students reported lying awake at night, unable to sleep because of stress. However, the beginning of each semester means reading those evaluations.

Middle School 52

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Digital Promise

JULY 10, 2019

Gotto Chair in Child Development and professor of psychology and human development at Peabody College, Vanderbilt University. Many teachers have been trained to think of belonging as only a product of classroom culture and student social relationships, that ultimately students have to learn to negotiate and navigate. and Antonio M.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2021

But it wasn’t that wall of degrees that most strongly informed her passion for teaching: It was the support she received growing up as a Black child taught by Black educators in her Mississippi hometown, and at her alma mater, a historically Black college. We really felt that cultural responsiveness was something we could do together.”.

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