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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TeachThought

OCTOBER 12, 2024

Definition Learned helplessness is a psychological condition in which a person, after repeated failures or negative experiences, believes they have no control over situations’ outcomes and stops trying to improve or change them. What we know—and this is what we’ve been learning—is that girls have a cultural pressure to be quiet.

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 28, 2022

Culture is everything. Establishing and maintaining relationships is paramount, which Is why I detailed research-based ways to improve morale in a previous post and in Digital Leadership. Both of these attributes are integral in developing relationships that underpin culture and are also necessary for leading change. Brock, S.E.,

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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. Walton has spent decades researching how to foster a stronger sense of belonging in education settings.

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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. Below are some simple strategies that you can use immediately and long-term, many of which are research-based. Pile on the positive feedback Sometimes there is never enough of a good thing when it comes to building up culture. 117-120.

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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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TeachThought

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Nature Podcast: Produced by the prestigious journal Nature, this podcast discusses the latest scientific research. StarTalk Radio: Hosted by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, covering space, physics, and other science-related topics with humor and pop culture references.

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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

And I have continued that line of research throughout my tenure at the University of Louisville. 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? And these facets of culture all live in a similar space.

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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. The criticisms range widely, from statistical and methodological errors to bad survey questions.

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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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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.” As a result, teaching students how to read is a complex and challenging endeavor — that’s why it takes years.

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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. Take care of your people and they, in turn, will take care of you.

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Anthropology.net

AUGUST 6, 2024

Ludovic Slimak, a leading paleoanthropologist affiliated with the French National Center for Scientific Research and the University of Toulouse-Le Mirail, has devoted his career to exploring the enigmatic world of Neanderthals. Slimak asserts. "We One striking example is the discovery of bird feathers in Neanderthal sites in Italy.

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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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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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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. Neighborhood Health Center in the Bronx, New York.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 3, 2022

A team of eight researchers at the University of Pennsylvania are trying to find the keys to motivation and persistence and they’re beginning in an unlikely place: a toddler’s mouth. But the researchers were actually most interested in what the parents were saying off screen. We know praise differs by culture,” Leonard said.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2021

It resulted in psychological distress for many. “We Researchers plan to survey students again this fall. 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.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 4, 2023

Our collective responsibilities range from curating extensive collections, providing instructional services and supporting research activities, to ensuring the accessibility and relevance of our digital and physical resources for our students and faculty members. It’s not indicative of weakness or failure.

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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.,

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 16, 2024

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. Karen was an extraordinary ethnographic field researcher; her work reflected a concern for, and interest in, others.

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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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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 31, 2024

That’s when racial and cultural differences between educators and students can come into play. Researchers say that racial disparities inside schools tend to reflect what’s happening in society as a whole and that income level does not explain the discrepancies. Bias also plays a role.

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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. Their first child, Professor Benjamin Glick, was born during their research in the highlands.

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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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A Psychology Teacher Writes

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

I recently attended a researchED conference which was, as ever, a joy. There’s a lot of discourse around why people don’t engage in PD and it is worthwhile investing time exploring literature on teacher learning, culture, theories of motivation, habit formation, behaviour change etc. And check your own. Leverage social norms.

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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. in rhetoric and composition but has largely focused her research on the experiences of women veterans. “We We understand that a person has very many intersecting identities – race, culture, ethnicity, social class, education,” Grohowski said.

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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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Political Science Now

JANUARY 26, 2024

In the APSA Public Scholarship Program, graduate students in political science produce summaries of new research in the American Political Science Review. Online content moderators, reviewing harmful materials, risk psychological trauma. ” Some professions are more dangerous than others.

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ED Surge

JULY 31, 2023

For example, research shows that reports of depression and anxiety increased sevenfold among Asian Americans during the pandemic, according to Stephanie Cherestal, Ph.D., The discrepancy stems from systemic factors like economic inequality, as well as cultural ones.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

The brain research on emotional intelligence as it relates to student learning is clear.” Research indicates that educator wellness directly affects education quality , student achievement and school climate. Now, I think of sleep as avoiding physical exhaustion, while rest is more about avoiding daily psychological exhaustion.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 9, 2024

A Yale University psychology professor has gathered highlights of what research says about the most common human thinking errors into a popular class at the university that she recently turned into a book.

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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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ED Surge

JUNE 28, 2023

Yes, it can be, according to two groups of researchers who have tested how programs aimed at fostering belonging have impacted students’ academic performances. Mentor is now part of the faculty at the university’s Teachers College, where one of her research areas is education equity.

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Strange Maps

JULY 13, 2023

There is also a geographic component to their distribution, research suggests. 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.

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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. cultural values, such as determination and agency. About two-thirds of people also develop muscle tremors. What matters is getting back up.

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