All Things Pedagogical

JUNE 22, 2024

And the difference between the folk who can or choose to only see positive, and those who see and experience those barriers to connecting, engaging, or even sharing in spaces like conferences or classrooms or meetings, is psychological safety. We like to use phrases like "this is a safe space" when we in fact can never guarantee this.

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 28, 2022

Culture is everything. Both of these attributes are integral in developing relationships that underpin culture and are also necessary for leading change. Annual Review of Psychology. There is no shortage of ways to reflect on how we lead in an effort to initiate and sustain change. Brock, S.E., McAliney, P.J., and Sen, A.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 22, 2023

One key aspect of utilizing feedback for professional learning is creating a culture that encourages open and honest communication. This psychological safety fosters a culture of mutual respect and trust, allowing professionals to focus on their own development rather than worrying about judgment or criticism.

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 14, 2022

Thriving cultures that produce results make every effort to keep this on the positive side. Pile on the positive feedback Sometimes there is never enough of a good thing when it comes to building up culture. Listening is one of the best tools that can be leveraged to gather crucial information on the pulse of a culture.

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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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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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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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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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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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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

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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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

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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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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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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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

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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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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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.net

AUGUST 6, 2024

Instead, Slimak argues for a more holistic approach that focuses on understanding Neanderthals as individuals with their own unique culture and identity. We have fragmented human knowledge into various disciplines—anthropology, psychology, sociology—but none of these fragments fully encompass what it means to be human.”

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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. This requires not only technological acumen but also psychological insight and emotional resilience. It’s not indicative of weakness or failure.

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Anthropology News

AUGUST 23, 2024

He led the deep integration of Anthropology’s broad offerings into the Core Curriculum for undergraduates, with different courses fulfilling requirements in social sciences, natural sciences, historical & cultural studies, and the arts.

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ShortCutsTV

MAY 10, 2024

If you’re interested in free textbooks – of either the Sociology or Psychology variety – you may well have come across the Openstax Introduction to Sociology textbook published by Lumen Learning. And if you haven’t Openstax is an example of a growing field in education called OER (Open Educational Resources).

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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

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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ED Surge

MAY 7, 2024

With each move, she had to learn a new language and adjust to a different culture. Before, I wanted to study psychology … but I didn't know exactly what path I wanted to take. There was a shift in culture and in school. I [want to help students] overcome language barriers and cultural barriers.

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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. While there are major organizations including the Modern Language Association and the American Psychological Association that have issued guidelines on citing generative AI, he says the approaches remain clunky.

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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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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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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

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

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

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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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 31, 2024

That’s when racial and cultural differences between educators and students can come into play. Teachers are no more biased than other people, but also no less biased,” said Russell Skiba, a professor in the school psychology program at Indiana University and director of its Equity Project. Bias also plays a role.

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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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Political Science Now

JANUARY 26, 2024

Online content moderators, reviewing harmful materials, risk psychological trauma. Students are told about the career benefits of joining the military, but not so much about the physical, psychological, and moral risks of the profession. ” Some professions are more dangerous than others.

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