The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2020

Board of Education Supreme Court ruling, African American teachers were pushed out of schools and out of the teaching profession to make integration more appealing to white families. Over time, teaching came to be a profession dominated by women. This story about a teaching force that better reflects the racial diversity of U.S.

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Teaching Anthropology

MAY 8, 2023

I first trialed active learning strategies while teaching at the University of Oxford, where one of the challenges of teaching anthropology is the diverse background of the students (Bastide, 2012). In addition to these benefits, active learning methods can enhance learners’ experience in classes of mixed ability and knowledge.

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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 12, 2020

We are two sociology professors who live and do research in New York City. We have concluded that the city must reimagine the culture of its police department with community-policing reform. It is different than community policing because it does not change the culture of all police officers, just a select few. Can it be fixed?

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Interestingly enough, researchers in other sectors (including economics, public health and sociology) have explored similar theories and found that social capital can improve more than just access to higher education and job opportunities, as one might expect. But education just isn’t there yet.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 23, 2020

One has to wonder whether the test scores, which are too often correlated with race and class due to their cultural biases and the unequal prior academic opportunities that students have had, are not really the point. It’s time for NYC white parents to sign up for virtual tours of middle schools that were not otherwise on your list.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Students may come back from recess feeling dissatisfied … feeling excluded,” said Rebecca London, an associate professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz and the author of the book “ Rethinking Recess ,” when I interviewed her for a story about recess last year. “We

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Passion for Social Studies

JANUARY 18, 2024

Having communication expectations and procedures in place was helpful when I was teaching. Learn about the students and their families, cultures, backgrounds, and interests. Add to cart Sociology Course $ 200.00 Never make assumptions about your students based on past revelations from former teachers.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Graeber also analyzes the “bullshitization” of “real jobs,” such as in education, where new cultures of neoliberal “managerialism” have seen teachers and academics doing increasing amounts of administrative work, taking up more and more of the time that, most agree, would be better spent doing actual teaching or research.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2020

It was two weeks before the university would be abruptly shut down by the coronavirus, and every corner of the campus seemed jampacked — except this quiet classroom, where a handful of students were studying the societies and cultures of the Caribbean. If you close that program down, you lose all that other revenue.

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This Is Not a Sociology Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2017

What he is trying to capture with this analysis is how the medical profession sees the everyday actions of individuals and their cultural and social lives as being legitimately within the remit of medical intervention. 1995) ‘The rise of surveillance medicine’ Sociology of Health & Illness, 17(3): 393-404. Armstrong, D.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2019

This Advisory Group, of which I am a member, laid out reachable goals to address equal access and resources, school accountability for diversity, and new teaching strategies to ensure that all students feel valued and affirmed. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The University of Alaska system has scaled back more than 40 academic programs , including earth sciences, geography and environmental resources, sociology, hospitality administration and theater. Subjects such as history teach about the past as a lens into the present, she said. Credit: Ji Stribling for The Hechinger Report.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

It’s a practice that has gone on for years, but teaching experts say it intensified during pandemic campus shut-downs, when students were looking for ways to connect. Students increasingly turn to private systems to create online groups around individual college classes.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 25, 2016

The idea is “that teachers who share a linguistic and cultural background with their students have a unique role to play in urban schools,” according to program director Laura Delgado. But if Delgado is right about the benefits for Nashville classrooms of a cultural match between teachers and students, the program has arrived just in time.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2023

This story also appeared in Mind/Shift But teaching wasn’t the only thing on Snyder’s plate. In general, teachers don’t have the kind of voice that other professionals typically do,” said Richard Ingersoll, a professor of education and sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. They didn’t know anything about teaching,” she recalled.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 14, 2022

Sociologist Ann Swidler calls these strategies “ cultural repertoires.” And even while many parents aspire to have their children go to college, our cultural repertoires for attaining that goal are different. Related: OPINION: We must do a better job of teaching Asian American history in our schools.

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Norton Learning - Sociology

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Michael Ramirez is a professor of sociology at Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi. He teaches courses on gender, work, aging and the life course, and film.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

That makes it difficult for universities like UC Riverside and UC Merced to provide all the teaching, advising, mental health and cultural resources that benefit college students. And that means students who need the most support often find themselves on campuses with the fewest available resources. They are Laura T.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2018

During my 12 years of teaching sociology, social justice and critical race theory at the university level and in my role as a director of student diversity and inclusion, I have also seen students shift in their approach to diversity.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

She teaches courses on international politics, international law, global justice, global climate policy, gender, human rights and civil war. in sociology at Minnesota State University, Mankato. Current class topics include Sociological Theory, Sociology of Human Sexuality, Social Psychology and Sociology Through Film.

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Norton Learning - Sociology

AUGUST 9, 2023

Dr. Woodring also serves as a consultant for … Continue reading Beating ChatGPT with ChatGPT: Using AI Technology to Create Authentic Assignments

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 1, 2018

So, separating and prioritizing STEM from humanities ignores the fact that we live in a complex social and cultural world. A wide range of departments including engineering, anthropology, classics, history, English, sociology and philosophy participate in its teaching. Bringing the Disciplines Together.

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Anthropology News

APRIL 17, 2024

He then served in the US Army in for two years (1952–54) and as a government researcher in Germany before earning a PhD in cultural anthropology in 1961 from the University of London, with certificates in African and Islamic law and Swahili at the School of African and Oriental Studies (SOAS) in 1958.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2024

It also cut English chemistry, math, history, finance, accounting, art and other majors — 21 of them in all, or a third of everything it used to teach. Jon: Today, Fields-Chism teaches seventh and eighth grade in Hot Springs, Arkansas. Researchers say that’s because they feel out of step with campus culture. Philosophy.

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Political Science Now

AUGUST 1, 2024

Levy holds advanced degrees in Interdisciplinary Studies in Adult Education emphasis on teaching diverse at-risk learners and in Political Science, emphasis on Political Philosophy, earned at San Francisco State University (SFSU). in Sociology from Stanford University and a Ph.D. She holds a B.A.

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This Is Not a Sociology Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Embed from Getty Images This is one of a series of posts that I am writing alongside a module I am teaching on “Digital Societies”. In this series I have been putting down some thoughts about topics which are broadly relevant to the module but not covered in teaching.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 11, 2016

We wanted to let people have a space to just talk, be and make signs because I know that making signs is a form of grieving,” said Joseph Coco, matriculating doctoral student in Sociology at LSU and a principal organizer at the “sign making and information meeting.”. Whether it’s in Baton Rouge, St. Photo: Andre Perry.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

In his sociology class, the Western Way of War, he felt it might add to the conversation. “I in history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and started teaching at Dartmouth in 1969. In his two years at Penn State before transferring to Princeton this fall, he rarely mentioned his military service.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2017

Although I was deeply unmotivated, I enrolled in Passaic County College where I excelled in English, psychology and sociology and did well in math and science. Boot Camp was a culture shock. I wanted to teach. Kennedy High School in Paterson, New Jersey, my parents gave me two options: go to college or get a job.

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C3 Teachers

APRIL 10, 2022

You can address history, economics, sociology, you know all the facets of social studies. Some of the major goals were to address history told from multiple perspectives and told through a culturally responsive lens. You can do that through the Inquiry Design Model. We don’t use that word lightly in the district.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

The idea, said Ann Swartz-Beckius, interim director of student achievement, is to teach students how to remain calm under pressure, “to tune out the noise in their heads.”. Many are taking steps to diversify their faculty and staff and training them in “cultural competency.”. Related: More Hispanics going to college: The bad news?

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

After a year of teaching there, he’d come to believe that he could help any student get into college. She sat in the front row for the sociology and biology seminars, but couldn’t concentrate in a room with more than 30 classmates. Over time, Marcovitz came to believe that a more diverse teaching corps could help students.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Since the residence’s opening in 2018, 21 CSUF students have been given safe, secure housing with wraparound services provided by formerly incarcerated staff members who reinforce a culture of striving and mattering. Jimmie Conner is an undergraduate at California State University, Fullerton, studying sociology and business.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2024

Robert Cassanello at the University of Central Florida in Orlando — one of the nation’s largest campuses with 70,000 students — warned in red ink on the syllabus for his graduate seminar on the Civil Rights Movement (as for all courses he teaches) that he “will expose you to content that does not comply with and will violate” anti-DEI laws.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 24, 2018

Motivated by a fierce desire to protect their children and themselves from difficulty, and armed with a robust sense of entitlement as well as ample economic, cultural and social resources, affluent parents can trigger conflict and interfere with school districts on a scale that is rarely acknowledged. Sign up for our newsletter.

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Political Science Now

JANUARY 9, 2025

In addition to teaching most of the Political Science, World Geography, and American History courses for the College, hes also served as Interim Dean, Chair of the College Curriculum Committee, and Co-Chair of the Minnesota State Systemwide Political Science Pathway degree committee. in Sociology from Stanford University and a Ph.D.

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