Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

While its role in Aztec rituals and warfare has long intrigued archaeologists, recent research published in Communications Psychology 1 explores its impact on the human brain. This study provides new insights into how these whistles amplified fear, heightened emotional states, and reinforced the psychological power of Aztec rituals.

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TeachThought

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

.’ Perspective Questions can also be asked from specific points-of-view–a student could answer a question about government from the perspective of a modern citizen, citizen of an ancient culture, famous historical figure, specific political party, etc.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Leading with clarity is not just about providing direction—it's about creating a culture where trust thrives, decisions are transparent, and every voice is empowered to contribute to the bigger vision. This creates a culture of open communication, where ideas and feedback flow freely, leading to innovation and growth. Avolio, B.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 14, 2025

Credit: CC0 Public Domain A new genomic study, published in Frontiers in Psychology 1 , approaches the problem differently. Instead, it suggests that the brain's ability to process language may have developed first as an internal cognitive tool, later spilling into outward communication and cultural expression. 1 Miyagawa, S.,

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Psychology Sorted

JUNE 28, 2024

Though the IB Diploma psychology is recommended as a two-year course , I know that some teachers have to fit it into one year! The HL extensions comprise the role of culture, motivation and technology in shaping human behaviour, and data analysis and interpretation. Here is a suggested two-year plan for your psychology course.

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ED Surge

MARCH 20, 2024

This colleague, who I manage, shared that during a recent meeting I had facilitated, my tone made them feel psychologically unsafe. I made someone feel psychologically unsafe? He’s not really about equity work, look at the culture he’s created. I kept thinking, “Me? I was starting to believe these things. I wish I had.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Human societies are built on layers of culture, law, and technology, yet beneath it all, some of the oldest instincts in the animal kingdom continue to shape our world. Modern consumer culture, Colombo suggests, is another expression of this primal drive. Religious institutions have often enforced authority through punitive doctrines.

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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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Anthropology for Beginners

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Cultural Relativism Cultural Relativism expresses the idea that the beliefs and practices of others are best understood in the light of the particular cultures in which they are found. Most societies are not relativist: they view their own ways as good, other people's as bad, inferior, or immoral a form of ETHNOCENTRISM.

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Edthena

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Improving school culture is high on many school leaders’ lists of building priorities. But cultivating a strong school culture doesn’t happen without intentional thought and planning. Why is this key to improving school culture ? Check out the highlights of what we’ve been reading below, as well as links to the full resources.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Hirsch, a professor emeritus of education and humanities at the University of Virginia, argues that democracy benefits when the citizenry shares a body of knowledge and history, which he calls cultural literacy. Now its a cognitive science argument that a core curriculum is also good for our brains and facilitates learning.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Bowman noted, “As dangerous or harmful as they can be, these narratives are designed to be engaging and satisfy deep psychological needs, such as the need for community and understanding. While teens don’t believe every conspiracy theory they see, 81 percent who see such content online said they believe one or more.

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TeachThought

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Don’t Use Physical Education As Punishment contributed by Dr. Kymm Ballard, Executive Director for SPARK Think about any time you’ve seen “army boot camp” portrayed in pop culture — are you picturing the traditional drill sergeant, ordering his troops to do endless laps and push-ups, as punishment for their errors that day?

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Project Title:Exploring Indigenous Governance and Cultural Evolution in Oaxaca, Mexico Mauricio Fernndez Duque, Dartmouth College Mauricio Fernndez Duque is an assistant professor at CIDE and a visiting scholar at Dartmouth. Read about the funded projects.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

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? Is engagement kind of a necessary precondition for building culture? And these facets of culture all live in a similar space.

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TeachThought

APRIL 4, 2024

They prefer either someone they previously deemed accurate or someone who shares their cultural background (Corriveau & Kurkul, 2016). Journal of Instructional Psychology, 37(3), 193–199. Background research on children’s learning showed that preschoolers have two qualifiers when choosing an informer. Clever, M., & Miller, K.

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Psychology Sorted

JULY 2, 2024

As stated in the subject brief, the content for the new psychology course comprises the three approaches – biological, cognitive and sociocultural – and research methodology. Students will need to give an example, but it does not need to be a psychological study. It can be a theory or a relevant example from life.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Two meta-analyses on growth mindset were published online in the fall of 2022 in the journal Psychological Bulletin and arrived at opposite conclusions about one of the most popular ideas in education. How could two such studies come out within just three weeks of each other in Psychological Bulletin and arrive at opposite conclusions?

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 25, 2019

We create a culture in our classrooms, establish norms and routines, and seek to influence our students. Journal of Educational Psychology , 91(3), 537. The more I learn about leadership, the more convinced I am that teachers need leadership training in credential school. Organizational Dynamics , 18 (3), 19-31.

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Edthena

MARCH 14, 2023

This ASCD article explains: The term was originally coined by Harvard Business School professor Amy Edmondson, who defines psychological safety as “a shared belief that the team is safe for risk-taking.” Fostering a culture of psychological safety means teachers feel respected and empowered to teach and take risks in the classroom.

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Maitri Learning

JANUARY 12, 2025

. #2: Learning is Embedded in Culture and Relationships Our brains physically change in response to our social and cultural context. Research shows that simply living in different cultures creates measurable differences in brain activity and structure. Our classrooms and families are also forms of culture. Gotlieb, R.

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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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Teaching Anthropology

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

A few years ago, as I was researching culture change across generations, I brought my research into the classroom by asking students to do some research in their own families. Embodied space (s) anthropological theories of body, space, and culture. Space and culture , 6(1), 9-18. New York: Penguin Random House. Nicolson, P.

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ED Surge

MARCH 19, 2024

That can be true with challenges like glitches in the federal financial aid forms or a student registration system, says Greg Walton, a psychology professor at Stanford University. And it's very easy in our culture to default to a punitive approach in response to a kid who misbehaves. Kids who are misbehaving are threatening to that.

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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). In this sense, society may denote the group’s population, its institutions and relations, or its culture and ideology.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 3, 2022

She is now an assistant professor of psychology at Yale University. We know praise differs by culture,” Leonard said. “And so how kids respond to that should very much differ by culture.”. But this isn’t a causal study. It’s just a correlation.”. Another brusher ranged from 10 seconds to 143 seconds.

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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

JULY 30, 2021

It resulted in psychological distress for many. “We Their findings aligned with the American Psychological Association’s Stress in America study : Gen Z adults ages 18 to 23 reported significantly higher stress levels than other generations. Researchers plan to survey students again this fall.

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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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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

JUNE 28, 2024

He’s now a school psychology clinical manager at the staffing agency BlazerWorks, where he works with school districts to help them fill their school psychologist positions. If we were to add another layer, it’s that cultural variable,” Olvera says. What if there’s items on the assessment that are not familiar with the kid’s culture?

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

“For the last few decades, educational reform has been coasting on these outdated ideas about human nature, about human psychology and human society,” says Hendrickson. You can't have a culture without having metaphors. You can't have a culture without having songs and dances and rituals.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

One of the biggest challenges to making communities that are overall better for youth mental health is the very way the issue is talked about, says Nat Kendall-Taylor, CEO of the FrameWorks Institute and a psychological anthropologist. What Motivates the Adolescent Brain?

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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. Are they culturally relevant for our kids? It makes me empathize with other people.” Imagine Learning EL Education aligns with the concept of high-quality instructional materials (HQIMs).

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A Psychology Teacher Writes

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The challenge, then, for PD is to use these levers to secure engagement (note: this is not about some rather sinister form of psychological manipulation to ‘trick’ people into engaging or getting buy-in; it’s about finding ways to explicitly show that people’s perceived individual needs are actually in alignment with whole-school goals).

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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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ShortCutsTV

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

A couple of years ago – November 2022 to be precise – we launched the Psychology Film Club as a way of offering our complete Psychology library of films to schools and colleges at a reasonable and affordable subscription rate (£25 a year or roughly 50p a week for access to what is currently 50+ […]

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