Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

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.

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Political Science Geography Social Science Community Engagement 38

Strange Maps

MARCH 3, 2025

A moral circle is a concept in philosophy and the social sciences that represents the groups of people and entities one considers worthy of moral concern. This graphic is rapidly becoming the most misused and misunderstood image in all of modern history, hyperbolized podcast host Liv Boeree.

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Social Science Research History Humanities 94

The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2020

Will history repeat? Any time they see an opportunity to attack particularly the humanities and the social sciences, that’s what they’ll go after.”. Any time they see an opportunity to attack particularly the humanities and the social sciences, that’s what they’ll go after.” I don’t think so.”.

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Anthropology Social Science Sociology Humanities 144

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

In the post-war boom of the 1950s, college students were confident of their economic futures and many studied liberal arts subjects such as English, history and philosophy. Unemployment dropped below 5 percent and the stock market soared, posting one of the best decades in history. History is seeing a similar collapse, down 35 percent.

Humanities 143

Humanities Economics History Psychology 143

The Hechinger Report

JULY 26, 2021

One even said she had “never wanted to learn history’’ before. A high school teacher who shared feedback on the project said, “The VR brings history to life in a really different way.”. The teachers believe that the hands-on, independent nature of virtual reality will bring reluctant students to the study of history.

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Museum Teaching Primary Sources Human Rights 132

ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

History class, approached me after the White House threatened to revoke temporary protected status (TPS) for immigrants from El Salvador. Educating for American Democracy: offers an interactive roadmap for using an inquiry model when teaching civics and history. Service-Learning in Action Jeslyn, a student in my U.S.

Civic Engagement 137

Civic Engagement Civics K-12 Education 137

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2020

Devin Evans is a 12th-grade literature and history teacher at Butler College Prep Charter High School on Chicago’s far South Side. in Social Science Education and History and is a member of Educators for Excellence. Sign up here for Hechinger’s newsletter. He graduated from Michigan State University with a B.A.

Professional Development 135

Professional Development Project-Based Learning High School Social Science 135

Society for Classical Studies

OCTOBER 24, 2024

The Center for Premodern Studies (CPS) is the home for collaborative scholarship and outreach in the historical humanities and social sciences at the University of Minnesota.

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Cultures History Archiving Museum 52

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2022

A 2019 report from the Stanford History Education Group found that high school students had “difficulty discerning fact from fiction online.”. In the best case scenario, a student would be exposed to media literacy practices and concepts throughout the day, in math classes and science classes, not just in English and social sciences.”.

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Teaching Civics K-12 Social Science 134

Society for Classical Studies

MARCH 4, 2024

Exploring the Assumptions of Cultural History: Call for Fellows kskordal Mon, 03/04/2024 - 13:37 Image The Future of the Past Lab and the Center for Premodern Studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities are excited to announce a three-year series of visiting fellowships titled “Exploring the Assumptions of Cultural History.”

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Anthropology News

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Courses in history, psychology, sociology, and political science are often part of the core curricula in journalism programs,” writes Paula Horvath in Journalism & Mass Communication Educator. Yet, the social science with perhaps the most to offer budding journalists, anthropology, has often been excluded from the chosen courses.”

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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. government as well.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 2020

The modules cover remarkable ground: Humanity and Natural Disasters; Intersections of Social Media & Science; Pandemics, Inequality and the Environment; and Coping & Caring for our Communities. Sign up here for Hechinger’s newsletter. She is the author of several books, including One Goal.

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Artifacts Library Social Science History 126

Digital Promise

OCTOBER 1, 2018

These founders, hailing from leading universities as well as the US Atomic Energy Commission, IBM Corp and New York Life Insurance, knew that connecting the humanities and sciences helps us make informed judgments about our control of nature, ourselves and our destiny. It is not a “history course for engineers.”

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Humanities Social Science Sociology Anthropology 85

ED Surge

JANUARY 10, 2023

And finally, sometimes it makes sense to set our local contexts aside and explore the universality of a particular content area such as math, or physics, or social science. Our local histories, our neighborhood green spaces and our students’ extended families offer all kinds of academic connections that can enrich our studies.

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Local History Civics Lesson Plan Social Science 128

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 23, 2019

Students studying the topic need technical knowledge but also an understanding of ethics, history and social science, says Sarma. “One of the challenges we have,” he said, “is that we’re so focused on work — which we obviously need to take seriously — that we will lose focus on the things that make education education.”.

Economics 109

Economics Social Science Humanities Tradition 109

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2023

It’s geography; it’s history; it’s science; it’s cooking; it’s athletics, whatever that broad knowledge is about the world we live in. The study, “ A Kindergarten Lottery Evaluation of Core Knowledge Charter Schools: Should Building General Knowledge Have a Central Role in Educational and Social Science Research and Policy? ”

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

in social science education and history, and he is a member of Educators for Excellence. Devin Evans is a 10th-grade English Language Arts teacher at Butler College Prep on Chicago’s far South Side. He graduated from Michigan State University with a B.A.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2023

Generally, colleges of arts and sciences are large academic units within a university that offer a range of department-led majors and areas of study, research and creative activity: from the arts (e.g., English and other languages, history, religious studies), the social sciences (e.g.,

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ACRE

APRIL 15, 2024

The lesson could be used as a precursor to a unit on the New Deal in history classrooms or as a case study on economic policy impacts in a social science course. This lesson was designed to continue the topics presented in Dr. Witcher’s economic history lessons on The Great Depression.

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Economics Lesson Plan Civics Policy Impact 52

The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2018

After all, enrollment in history, philosophy, literature and other majors considered to come under the umbrella of the liberal arts has been falling for decades. Fewer than one in 20 of all degrees now are in humanities disciplines traditionally associated with the liberal arts, according to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.

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Anthropology News

AUGUST 11, 2024

In 1972 he left to join the faculty of the two-year-old Hampshire College as full professor and dean of social sciences. Leonard Glick published two books based on his research on Jewish history and Judaism. He taught there for 30 years until retirement in 2002.

Anthropology 52

Anthropology Psychology History Social Science 52

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2018

Nearly half — 46 percent — major in the humanities or social sciences, Lee said. Carthage students visited the local Civil War museum to connect theory with history, while Columbia asks participants to spend their senior year of high school working on a civic leadership project.

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Museum Humanities Civics Political Science 83

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2017

Let’s say you are a Florida State University student looking for a class to fulfill its history/social science requirement. Instead of taking some random history course, you might choose “History of Science,” which counts toward both F.S.U.’s

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Archaeology Tutoring History Advocacy 82

Political Science Now

AUGUST 15, 2024

While the examples are primarily drawn from international relations and comparative politics, the methods we discuss are applicable to all the subfields of political science, to sociology, economics, history, business studies, public policy, and many other fields.

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TCI

MARCH 1, 2024

Integration of Economics and Civics for Real-World Connections Geography is only one of the social science disciplines. For example, students analyze a case study of lithium production in Bolivia alongside maps and charts to understand how geography influences the economics, politics, history, and culture of the region.

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Geography Global Connections Global Perspectives Civics 59

Political Science Now

APRIL 12, 2024

Thinking about the destination of the rocket, the things they may do, and all the possibilities, they are witnessing the history of science. She holds a Bachelor’s in Philosophy from Middle East Technical University (Turkey) and a Master’s in Political Science from Eastern Illinois University.

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Political Science Government Social Science Tradition 60

Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Lewis (he/him/his) is an identity politics researcher, social justice activist, and Associate Professor of Political Science at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and a Bachelor of Arts in History from the historic Tuskegee University.

Political Science 49

Political Science Social Justice Advocacy Social Science 49

Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 1, 2024

Woodson Institute, the Social Science Research Council, and the Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library at Emory University. He has been awarded fellowships from the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, the University of Virginia’s Carter G.

Archiving 52

Archiving Civics Library Social Science 52

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2017

LINC supported social science research on artists’ working conditions and career-building strategies, as well as how the for-profit cultural industries (motion pictures, recorded music, book publishers, commercial theatre) benefit from artists’ on-the-job learning in the nonprofit arts.

Cultures 65

Cultures Economics Social Science Critical Thinking 65

4QM Teaching

APRIL 30, 2023

Generic accounts of thinking skills often treat document reading and analysis as the bread-and-butter of history teaching and learning. This mistake — the narrowing of history pedagogy to “document analysis” — reflects another mistake: confusing novices for experts. — that’s how we learn history. Plan it out.

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Primary Sources Artifacts Archiving Social Studies 40

Jonathan Firth

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

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? In terms of methodology it leans heavily on experiments, and also makes extensive use of social science methods such as interviews.

Psychology 52

Psychology Geography Social Science Research Skills 52

Anthropology 365

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

It also includes our relationships to our past (archaeology), our biology, our evolutionary history, and other beings (e.g., These relationships include some of the most obvious: kinship, communities, institutions, businesses, and religions. animals, plants, fungi, microbes, and the supernatural).

Humanities 40

Humanities Anthropology Archaeology Cultures 40

Anthropology for Beginners

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Drawing from biological and social sciences, as well as clinical sciences, medical anthropologists have contributed significantly to the understanding and improvement of human health and health services worldwide. Armelagos and Dewey (1970) have identified three "epidemiological transitions" in human history.

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Cultures Anthropology Humanities Sociology 100

ED Surge

JULY 20, 2022

Avery Thrush (she/her), sixth grade science teacher at STEM Prep Academy in Nashville, Tennessee. Corey Winchester (he/him), history and social science teacher and staff coordinator of Students Organized Against Racism (SOAR) at Evanston Township High School in Evanston, Illinois.

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Middle School Social Science History High School 101

Anthropology News

JUNE 27, 2024

In this crossroads where the data and statistics intersect with the social reality, we have a challenge to translate all these insights into tangible outcomes that return a human history and identity. Without understanding all the real implications of our work, we will not offer truly effective solutions.

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Humanities Anthropology Tradition Social Science 98

Political Science Now

JULY 26, 2024

Elizabeth (Libby) Sharrow is Associate Professor of Public Policy and History, and Director of Faculty Research in the Institute for Social Science Research at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Their scholarship focuses on the history and impacts of U.S. Their scholarship focuses on the history and impacts of U.S.

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Political Science Social Science Civics History 58