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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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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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What’s it like to teach psychology?

Jonathan Firth

My own school psychology textbooks, including books for the Higher and GCSE courses. There are also a wide range of resources for A-Level Psychology. I’ve been teaching Psychology at secondary school level for almost two decades. This article discusses routes into teaching the subject.

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Canceled research, sports, recitals — college students are coping with more than closed campuses

The Hechinger Report

The price you pay for not paying attention to the psychological trauma is sizeable.”. The price you pay for not paying attention to the psychological trauma is sizeable.”. The National Collegiate Athletic Association has halted all its spring events — most famously the March Madness national basketball championship tournament.

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If I was teaching Social Studies today…

Dangerously Irrelevant

The UC Davis California History Social Science Project frames current events within their historical context , connecting students’ present to the past. We could search for pins on Native American history , Middle East cultures , Japanese history , government , geography , sociology , psychology , economics , and numerous other topics.

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Geopsychology: Your personality depends on where you live

Strange Maps

It sounds like something cooked up after hours in the back alley between the geography and psychology departments. Extraverts are “the life of the party,” while introverts, on the other side of the scale, require less stimulation from people or events. There is also a geographic component to their distribution, research suggests.

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Some colleges and universities are bringing the classroom to the workplace

The Hechinger Report

Among other subjects, the students here take courses in sociology, psychology, English composition, science and math — all at the site of the kind of business where the principles they learn in the classroom and from textbooks can be put into practice. “The

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