Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

The "U-shaped" happiness curve, where happiness levels are high in youth, dip during middle age, and rise again in later years, has been a popular theory in psychology. This curve has been cited widely as evidence of a universal pattern in human well-being.

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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? Their words, and the description of their experience in the meeting left me stunned, confused and disappointed in myself. I kept thinking, “Me? I wish I had.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 4, 2023

With shifting societal norms, advances in technology and evolving pedagogical practices at play, it's no surprise that change is the only constant in education. It can be traced back to an ingrained fear of the unknown , a protective psychological response that’s hard-wired into our brains to shield us from potential threats.

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TeachThought

JUNE 10, 2024

Definition of Constructivism Constructivism is an educational theory in which learners actively construct their own understanding and knowledge through experiences and reflection on those experiences. He stresses the importance of tools, media, and context in human development. ” You can read the full pdf here.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

This is an edition of our climate change and education newsletter. Or students in a human behavior class applying what they’ve learned to encourage cafeteria visitors to waste less food. Our responsibility is to ensure we have educated our students to capably deal with these challenges and identify the solutions. Sign up here.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The drop in college graduates who majored in humanities ranges between 16 percent and 29 percent since 2012. The last time colleges produced this few humanities graduates was in 2002. As the economy recovered, so did the humanities. The last time colleges produced this few humanities graduates was in 2002.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

But a growing chorus of education advocates has been arguing that phonics isnt enough. Some educators are calling for schools to adopt a curriculum that emphasizes content along with phonics. The emphasis on phonics in many schools is still relatively new and may need more time to yield results. Weve all been there.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 21, 2023

America has pulled back from the brink of denying science in education. We have to place facts, history and science at the heart of our education systems. AP Psychology is a popular course, and rigorous AP classes help prepare students for college and demonstrate their skills for college admissions.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 1, 2024

If students are required to make clear when and how they’re using AI tools, should educators be too? In open-ended answers, some educators said they see it as a tool akin to a calculator, or like using content from a textbook. No matter what, the thoughts need to start with the human user and end with the human user,” she stresses.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Experts say much of what we see marketed as the metaverse from education technology companies isn’t actually the metaverse.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Schools need to tap into the same sense of wonder that led early humans to seek unifying stories to explain their place in the world — and teachers need to do more to incorporate myths, jokes and riddles into curriculum and teaching practices, from the earliest grades up through high school. You can't have a culture without having metaphors.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 17, 2025

Part of that involved the question of whether schools should ban smartphones one of the biggest policy debates of the year in K-12 education. Topics around how AI fits into education continued to draw listeners this year, including our interview with Sal Khan, founder of the nonprofit Khan Academy, about his groups new AI chatbot tutor.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 28, 2018

I’ve never liked the idea that as teachers it is our job to “manage” students, but it wasn’t until I was reading research about human motivation for my doctoral program that I understood why I was feeling such a knee-jerk reaction when I heard the phrase “classroom management.” Hofferber, N., Miserando, M.

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ED Surge

MARCH 23, 2023

These short courses offer students the opportunity to study behavioral health, which aligns with jobs in our region related to human services, sociology, counseling, psychology and social work. Most were designed to educate clergy, according to research by Phillip R. From 1890 to 1940, higher education in the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 25, 2017

In recent years, cognitive scientists have done gobs of research on how making mistakes help us learn, much of it funded by the federal Institute for Education Science. Traditionally, educators and psychologists in the U.S. American educators, perhaps influenced by Skinner, have tended to see things the same way.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2024

An early warning and intervention system, called BARR, pictured above, was one of the most successful education interventions to come out of the Department of Education’s research and development program that issued $1.4 billion in grants between 2010 and 2016. The failure rate was 74 percent.

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Cult of Pedagogy

AUGUST 18, 2024

Helping us do that is Megan Sumeracki, a professor of cognitive psychology at Rhode Island College. Her area of expertise is human learning and memory, and applying the science of learning in educational contexts. You can listen to the interview in the player above or read the full transcript here. What Exactly Is Metacognition?

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 9, 2023

A new research review finds inconsistent benefits for students with disabilities who learn alongside general education peers. policy has urged schools to keep students with disabilities in the same classrooms with their general education peers unless severe disabilities prevent it. Credit: Lillian Mongeau/The Hechinger Report.

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The Effortful Educator

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

More concretely, if I ask students in my psychology course to describe one theory of motivation, will other theories of motivation also be strengthened in their memory? The more I learn about human memory processing and learning, the more Im not sure it is fair. Perspectives on psychological science, 1(3), 181-210.

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Jonathan Firth

NOVEMBER 10, 2018

What should you read to prime yourself for further study in Psychology? I’m often asked by new or prospective Psychology students (or their parents) if I can recommend some interest-based reading to extend their understanding or prepare for a degree. Image via Pixabay. A great primer ahead of studying psychopathology.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2020

“Things will never be the same in higher education!” Those who expected radical disruption in the wake of the Great Recession now seem to believe that it’s the coronavirus that will lead to a massive migration of students away from in-person learning and toward the promised land of tech-infused distance education.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 23, 2020

The school is one of a number of colleges and universities that are standing out for their humane approaches to the coronavirus. Just ask a parent trying to take the place of educators while working from home.). Honestly, we’ve reached an unprecedented point in higher education,” Lalande said. “We

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 6, 2020

Yet even advocates of educational technology recognize the motivating power of a human teacher to encourage a demoralized student or clear up a point of confusion. Student psychology appears to be at play. A longer study would be needed to see if the psychological trick persists. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 18, 2016

To learn how educators can help students develop intrinsic motivation, we spoke with Dr. Christina Hinton, faculty member at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Founder and Executive Director of Research Schools International (RSI) , and Dr. Tom Callahan, Director of the Merck-Horton Center for Teaching and Learning, and educator at St.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 13, 2020

Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images). Higher Education. Leave this field empty if you're human: The big wrinkle is that the researchers found that it’s not effective to start the school year with a couple of weeks of lessons on the scientific method, which many teachers do. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2020

Play facilitates cognitive development, said James Coan, a psychology professor at the University of Virginia who studies the neuroscience of human connection. James Coan, a psychology professor at the University of Virginia. and Natalie Reid Dorn professor of human development at the University of California-Davis.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Given students’ interest in technology, educational technology tools are a promising way to motivate them to learn. The” what” and” why” of goal pursuits: Human needs and the self-determination of behavior. Psychological Inquiry,11(4), 227–268. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 74, 1681–1695.

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Maitri Learning

JANUARY 12, 2025

Recent advances in neuroscience are revealing what Montessori educators have known for over a century - that learning is deeply connected to emotion, relationships, and the integration of mind and body. This might come as a surprise, but humans actually have fewer genes than most plants, and about the same number as goldfish!

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

This year, I began another complicated questwith an institutional behemoth: the New York City Department of Education. This one involved finding a kindergarten for Krishna, a stem-cell transplant survivor who suffers from a rare immune disorder and whose main special needis to be kept apart from other humans. During a pandemic.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

That finding motivated Brown to ask more questions about play and its role in healthy human development. Doris Bergen, a professor at Miami University’s Department of Educational Psychology. Play is “not frivolous and not just for kids, but something that is an inherent part of human nature.”.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Critical thinking is all the rage in education. Some argue that critical thinking should be the primary purpose of education and one of the most important skills to have in the 21st century, with advanced machines and algorithms replacing manual and repetitive labor. Higher Education. Weekly Update. Future of Learning.

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Jonathan Firth

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

This week the annual Scottish Learning Festival took place in Glasgow, and together with five fellow educators I gave a presentation on the value of psychology to younger learners. Together, my co-presenters and I represented the University of Strathclyde , four local authorities, and Education Scotland.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. The educator practices how to respond to the virtual human using evidence-based communication skills.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 10, 2024

As a 2022 fellow of The National Fellowship for Black and Latino Male Educators, I attend an annual retreat designed to provide fellows and alumni with support and resources so we can all reach the common goal of becoming education leaders. At this year’s retreat, Lester Young Jr., This is a dilemma.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Although I was doing interviews at that time for a piece on low morale in higher education, I didn’t have a good answer to her question. Shuck is a professor of human resource and organizational development at the University of Louisville and co-founder of the start-up OrgVitals. How do I bring my faculty back?”

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 24, 2022

Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, a professor of psychology at Temple University and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. What it’s really about here is can we teach human brains in the way human brains learn,” Hirsh-Pasek said. Subscribe today! Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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