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The Geography Teaching Adventure

Living Geography

What role might geography teaching play? What stories do we tell about geography itself? The book revisits an older vision of geography that is much bigger than exams and memorising information: dreams of adventure and discovery. What geographical stories do we tell about the world?

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Learn more about: How has Federalism Shaped (and Constrained) Native American Political Rights?

Political Science Now

Her research and teaching interests include American political development, political history, voting and elections, state politics, political geography, sovereignty, Native American political rights, political parties, partisanship, and political institutions. She specializes in American politics. Read about the funded projects.

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PROOF POINTS: Inside the latest reading study that’s getting a lot of buzz

The Hechinger Report

Researchers have long found correlations between a child’s knowledge and reading scores, but that’s not the same as proving that building knowledge first is what causes reading comprehension to flourish later. In this study, the researchers copied a method used by charter school researchers.

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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 listen to podcasts on the geography of world cultures from Stanford University. We could play Fantasy Geography. And so on… . government as well.

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Psychology as a school subject - what are the benefits?

Jonathan Firth

Why would we teach learners about the external world – history, geography, chemistry, and so forth – but never teach them about what is happening in their own minds, or those of others? 7) Psychology helps to build independent research skills. 1) The study of Psychology is a basic part of understanding reality.

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Print References/Reading List/Bibliography in Your Syllabus (With Some Style) in R Markdown and {stevemisc}

Steven V. Miller

Social Science Quarterly* #> 93(5): 1202–17. #> External Territorial Threat, State Capacity, and Civil War.” #> *Journal of Peace Research* 51(5): 634–46. #> Journal of Peace Research* 50(6): 677–90. #> Conflict Management and Peace Science* 34(5): #> 526–45. #> > #> ———. Quick Victories?

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Urban Anthropology

Anthropology for Beginners

In contrast to earlier studies of urbanism, urban anthropology applied anthropological concepts and field research methods to urban populations where the city was the context of the research rather than the phenomenon under study. Other research focuses on systems of formal social control such as police, courts, and prisons.