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Vietnam War

Passion for Social Studies

The Vietnam War was a pivotal event in world history. Thankfully, the Vietnam War Lesson and Recent US History Unit are ready to make learning meaningful and planning a breeze! This includes everything from the impact on literature and film to the psychological scars left on soldiers. Vietnam War Lesson $ 6.00

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Psychological technologies

This Is Not a Sociology Blog

Psychoanalysis Some of the most important “technologies” of psychology were developed by Sigmund Freud. For instance, there have been many reported cases of phantom “repressed” memories of child sexual abuse and other traumatic events which seem to be planted through the suggestions of a psychiatrist (deliberately or not).

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Theater, economics and psychology: Climate class is now in session

The Hechinger Report

Former NPR education reporter Anya Kamenetz writes about a related trend in her latest column for Hechinger: Colleges embedding climate-related content into all sorts of classes — sociology, history, English literature, French. “We Our hope is that the governor and legislature will work with us to develop a comprehensive capital plan.

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OPINION: Making campus diversity real — starting in kindergarten

The Hechinger Report

The situation is particularly troubling in graduate education, where the lack of diversity is largely influenced by the history of deficient K-16 institutional support for underrepresented and minority groups, and consistently low levels of diversity among faculty members. Among the most important issues in U.S.

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If I was teaching Social Studies today…

Dangerously Irrelevant

It also offers a YouTube channel on which historians discuss their work , making history come alive for contemporary youth. The UC Davis California History Social Science Project frames current events within their historical context , connecting students’ present to the past. government as well.

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The new homeschoolers: More diverse, very committed

The Hechinger Report

The group connects Muslim home-schoolers in Southern California by hosting events and providing resources, such as books and curriculum. It’s also easier to participate in events on the seasonal Indigenous calendar, like the annual buffalo harvest or sacred site visits, that previously would have meant pulling the children from school.

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This Radically Simple Solution Helps Students Feel Like They Belong in School

ED Surge

The history and reality of racism and social-class exclusion in higher education means that everyday challenges such as feeling excluded or having a hard time finding a lab partner can take on a racialized or social class-laden meaning for specific identity groups: ‘People like me don’t belong here,’” the researchers explain.