Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 13, 2025

While skills like collaboration, effective communication, and critical thinking are valuable, it’s hard not to wonder what happens to content areas like history and algebra do these just go away? It’s framed around this driving question: How are humans impacting the Earth from an environmental biology perspective?

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Or students in a human behavior class applying what they’ve learned to encourage cafeteria visitors to waste less food. The post Theater, economics and psychology: Climate class is now in session appeared first on The Hechinger Report. This is an edition of our climate change and education newsletter. Sign up here.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 25, 2017

Most of us can remember a moment like this from our school years: the teacher poses a question – maybe it’s math, maybe history. There’s a lot of knowledge in the psychology of learning that hasn’t been incorporated into education.” You raise your hand, you give your answer with full assurance. You’re shot down. You got it wrong.

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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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Anthropology for Beginners

JANUARY 3, 2021

McIver defines society as “a system of usage and proedurs, of authority and mutual aid of many groupings and divisions, of control over human behaviour and of liberties. While one cannot image to have a society without collection of individuals similarly, one cannot have human beings without forming a mutual social relations.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 13, 2020

His conclusion was that generic critical thinking skills don’t translate from one subject to another but that subject-specific critical thinking skills can be explicitly taught as you go deep into a lesson, be it history or math, as students need to learn a lot of information to process it. Choose from our newsletters. Weekly Update.

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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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Teaching Anthropology

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

ELIZABETH KEATING, Professor of Anthropology & Graduate Faculty, Human Dimensions of Organizations, The University of Texas at Austin Teaching through research is recognized as one of the strengths of anthropology. One of the most powerful questions they asked is a question about space: “What was the home you grew up in like?”

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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. 1) The study of Psychology is a basic part of understanding reality. 2) Psychology is interesting and motivating. We can do better for our learners.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 9, 2020

The coronavirus crisis has created a moment in history in which educators and administrators can shift the narrative and reality for an entire community. There’s so much information and so many personal stories about how the coronavirus has negatively affected the global community from health, economic, psychological and social perspectives.

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ED Surge

MARCH 23, 2023

This semester, the Community College of Aurora rolled out the first microcredentials in its history. 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.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2021

Grades are too often used as weapons that can create psychological and emotional harm to young people whose experiences, cultural practices and behaviors are incompatible with their schools and educators. Students may start to see themselves as a “B” student in math or a “D” student in history.

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ED Surge

APRIL 27, 2023

We’ve been dreaming in the field of education that people could have their own individual tutors to help them learn,” says Mayer, who is a professor of psychology at the University of California at Santa Barbara, noting that ChatGPT has renewed this push. “So

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Anthropology for Beginners

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Worldview Worldview is the set of cultural and psychological beliefs held by members of a particular culture; the term was borrowed from the German Weltanschauung. Social (psychology, sociology, communications, history, cosmology) 4. Social (psychology, sociology, communications, history, cosmology) 4.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: “They might not be called a fidget spinner but it’s the same thing,” said Paulo Graziano, director of the S.E.L.F.-Regulation Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter. Choose from our newsletters. Weekly Update. Future of Learning. Higher Education. Mississippi Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

A cross-section of a brain scan sits on the desk of Tim Odegard, a professor of psychology at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro. Because human brains are organized in diverse ways, some people’s reading circuits end up being inefficient. Dyslexia is the most common reading disability.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

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. We’d subscribe to feeds and listen to podcasts from the U.S.

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ED Surge

JUNE 28, 2023

She says it all comes down to the basic human need to feel cared for and to be part of a community. And I think that the humanity is missing in these orientations that we have,” Mentor says. Mentor is now part of the faculty at the university’s Teachers College, where one of her research areas is education equity.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: “Wanting students to be able to ‘analyse, synthesise and evaluate’ information sounds like a reasonable goal,” writes Daniel Willingham, a professor of psychology at the University of Virginia. In the paper, Willingham traces the history of teaching critical thinking.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 9, 2024

Why All of Us Could Use a Lesson in ‘Thinking 101’ Human brains are wired to think in ways that often lead to biased decisions or incorrect assumptions. A new book by a high school history and civics teacher collects innovative strategies, and argues that getting the issue right is crucial for building a strong democracy.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

All four Hidalgos love American history, and a dual-enrollment course allowed their 17-year-old daughter to earn college credit while sharing the class content with her brother and parents. She became fascinated with the idea while studying for her degrees in childhood education, psychology and math education. The Siddiquis.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Working in Indonesia and Peru, we also use this research, and our close partnerships with local communities and organizations, to spur action that supports gender equality and the basic human right to water. WATER INSECURITY AND GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE The statistics on rising water insecurity are distressing. An estimated “1.8

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2018

Businesspeople need to understand human nature more than ever before. Still, to understand human nature, leaders need to do more than crunch numbers. That is precisely why business students need to learn psychology, history, sociology, culture and art. But they will be rendered meaningless without the human touch.

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Anthropology for Beginners

AUGUST 17, 2023

On the other hand, ethnography also designated the aspiration to collect systematically, and according to rigorous procedures, facts about human languages, customs, arts, and achievements. Approaches: Ethnographic fieldwork tradition has a long history and it is rooted from the 19 th century enlightenment philosophy.

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ED Surge

JULY 7, 2022

After her daughter was born, Ruth Cady enrolled in two classes at a local community college: psychology and biology. That they devote days, years, lifetimes to understanding a sliver of biology, physics, history. You’re also part of this big thing, this human endeavor—that’s kind of cool.” What is happening?’”

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Over the past two years, the district has hired six teachers from among its non-teaching staff, including a Black bus driver who recently earned his teaching credentials and now teaches history. The district’s human resources department plans to hire a staff member specifically to build this diverse pipeline of educators in the district.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2018

Alfred “Red” Joseph, a senior history and philosophy major, and Lyndsi Burcham, a junior psychology major, stand outside Irvine Auditorium before the opening ceremony of the fourth annual 1vyG Conference at Penn, holding the SWAG given to attendees bearing theme “Focusing on the Future.” Weekly Update.

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Anthropology News

AUGUST 11, 2024

Some might think that the height of his medical career was when he gave draftee Elvis Presley his physical and psychological examination, but for Len it was his service as an intern at Charity Hospital in New Orleans. Leonard Glick published two books based on his research on Jewish history and Judaism.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

Morales started out as an elementary-school teacher, then switched to academic counseling, which she’s done at LA High for the past eleven years; Martinez worked there, too, teaching history and social studies, until six years ago, when he was transferred to another high school in the district.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2020

Given current circumstances, Richard Vedder, an economics professor emeritus at Ohio University, has decided to teach his fall course, “Economic History of Europe,” for a salary of $1. psychology professor, saw how it hurt the shops and eateries along Court Street. Plus, a parking sticker. Now, he wonders, what’s next?

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Political Science Now

OCTOBER 1, 2024

At Poolesville High School, I am a part of the humanities magnet program where I am supported as I study my interests in political science, writing, editing, and history. Some of my favorite classes that I’ve taken are AP American History and AP Government. Mahlet Ayele is a rising senior at Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2017

Psychology majors, who make a market average of $42,000 per year, can bump that up another $24,000 per year if they have skills in statistics. Of course, it would help to have this information before graduation. That’s a quarter-million-dollar difference over a decade.

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Studies Weekly

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Many dedicated, brilliant, and diverse trailblazers have illuminated our path and brought their findings to the forefront of humanity. She found the skull of a giant sloth next to early human tools. Addressing the psychological and spiritual aspects of healing was important as well. Lori Arviso Alvord,” retrieved Nov.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

I have never in my history of taking care of kids had to write out a 10-day notice.” The previous month, Jennifer had found a job working with people diagnosed with severe autism and other disabilities; the position used the certification she’d earned the previous year in human services, which pleased her.

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Anthropology for Beginners

AUGUST 17, 2023

It approaches the comparative study of human experience, behavior, facts, and artifacts from a dual sociocultural and psychological most often psychodynamic perspective.

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Sapiens

APRIL 30, 2025

According to Thrse, Mary delivered on those requestsnot as a human intercessor to God, as she is conceived of in Christianity, but as a goddess with power in her own right. As religious scholar TaNicolae writes , images of feminine divinity offer women the opportunity to find meaningfulness, empowerment, and sexual or psychological healing.

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TeachThought

OCTOBER 10, 2024

The Science of Happiness: This book explores scientific insights into happiness and well-being, backed by research in positive psychology. Orbital Path : Hosted by Dr. Michelle Thaller, it explores the cosmos, space exploration, and humanity’s place in the universe.

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