This Is Not a Sociology Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2017

In the previous post in this series I discussed how we can see public health strategies as “technologies” which reveal human health, life and behaviour in particular ways and act as tools for changing these. Psychoanalysis Some of the most important “technologies” of psychology were developed by Sigmund Freud.

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Teaching Anthropology

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Moreover, with regard to syndemics Horton tweeted , The anthropology community is ahead of medicine and public health.Once labeled a little-known buzzword that nonetheless describes our troubled times in Smithsonian Magazine , syndemic theory now informs a rich body of health research and interventions. Why teach syndemics? 2 nd Edition.

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TeachThought

JUNE 10, 2024

Edith Ackerman, a “ Swiss-born American psychologist who explored the interactions between developmental psychology, play, learning and design. He stresses the importance of tools, media, and context in human development. Knowledge Construction: Learning is about constructing knowledge rather than just absorbing information.

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ED Surge

MARCH 20, 2024

This colleague, who I manage, shared that during a recent meeting I had facilitated, my tone made them feel psychologically unsafe. I made someone feel psychologically unsafe? Earlier that day, I received an email from our district informing me that my school had the lowest completion average on our beginning of year reading exam.

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Cult of Pedagogy

AUGUST 18, 2024

.” The act of thinking about our own thinking, of knowing what we know and don’t know, is referred to in academic circles as metacognition , and it plays a huge role in how well our brain holds on to information. Helping us do that is Megan Sumeracki, a professor of cognitive psychology at Rhode Island College. Are we good?

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TeachThought

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Social Engineering: The Human Factor While technology evolves, human psychology remains a constant target. Modern phishing attacks are sophisticated enough to fool even tech-savvy users. Last year, a junior employee at a Fortune 500 company received what appeared to be a routine Zoom meeting invitation from their CEO.

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The Effortful Educator

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

It informs everyone of what students know and dont know. It also works to strengthen memories of content while establishing powerful context for the ability to further recognize and recall information successfully in the future. More on these three categories of information here. Material that is commonly confused.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 28, 2018

I’ve never liked the idea that as teachers it is our job to “manage” students, but it wasn’t until I was reading research about human motivation for my doctoral program that I understood why I was feeling such a knee-jerk reaction when I heard the phrase “classroom management.” Grolnick, W. & Ryan, R.

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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. One has to do with information processing.

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Cult of Pedagogy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

Maybe you believe gender fluidity has always been a part of human existence and that those statistics only exist because we are just now getting around to naming and measuring it. “When a student changes their name and pronouns,” he offers, “who should be informed? . Who has a right to that information?

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2025

Foster says shed be upset if her daughters private information was compromised. The algorithm detects potential indicators of problems like bullying, self-harm, suicide or school violence and then sends a screenshot to human reviewers. Thats not good at all, Foster said after learning the district inadvertently released the records.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 6, 2020

Yet even advocates of educational technology recognize the motivating power of a human teacher to encourage a demoralized student or clear up a point of confusion. If only teachers can be more informed during class about things they can’t normally easily monitor, then students might learn better.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2020

The research helped inform his influential “ attachment theory ,” which emphasizes the bond between parent and child and the harms that come from separating them. Play facilitates cognitive development, said James Coan, a psychology professor at the University of Virginia who studies the neuroscience of human connection.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2020

But Ron Dahl, who directs the Institute for Human Development at the University of California, Berkeley, argues that adolescence is actually a second opportunity to invest in children because of the enormous brain development during this period. This is the “ human connectome ” and each person’s is unique, like a fingerprint.

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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 24, 2022

While direct instruction gets information across quickly and is effective for certain skills or lessons in a classroom, “real learning” occurs when children are active and engaged, said. Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, a professor of psychology at Temple University and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

That finding motivated Brown to ask more questions about play and its role in healthy human development. Doris Bergen, a professor at Miami University’s Department of Educational Psychology. Play is “not frivolous and not just for kids, but something that is an inherent part of human nature.”.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Research in psychology has led to a clearer picture of common pitfalls in human reasoning — instincts people are wired to make that may have helped our caveman ancestors but that now lead people to make biased decisions or incorrect assumptions. Is it because of all the information flowing at all of us these days?

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Teaching Anthropology

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

In a 1934 lecture on techniques of the body, for example, Marcel Mauss argued that studies of movement should attend concomitantly to biological, sociological and psychological facets. Human hygiene is taken as an example. I found them to be uplifting and informative, especially in this uncertain time.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 10, 2024

The event provides leadership development skills, offers a psychologically safe space to process our experiences and nurtures the spirit of brotherhood and community needed to sustain our worth and our work. At this year’s retreat, Lester Young Jr., After a week of contemplation, I found myself wondering why we can’t do both.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

More broadly, nearly 73 percent in the Fall 2021 American College Health Association National College Health Assessment survey reported moderate or serious psychological distress. Nikita Nerkar, a peer wellness coach and senior from Phoenix majoring in psychology, said students often “are looking to have a space to talk things through.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2021

The psychological literature is muddy with several studies finding no harm to children’s mental health. Ron Dahl, who directs the Institute for Human Development at the University of California, Berkeley, argues that social interaction while gaming or using social media can be healthy for adolescent development.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

These stories of resilience and triumph allowed me to see my own humanity as a Black person, something I later realized I desperately needed. I needed to learn about my people in order for me to see my own humanity, and for the students I’ve taught over the past 13 years, I know this to be true.

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Edthena

OCTOBER 12, 2023

We’ve rounded up four resources that provide best practices for improving school culture, including how psychological safety is crucial for educators and strategies for valuing and supporting teachers. Find them on our blog: What Positive Psychology Has to Do with Supporting Teacher Well-Being Promoting Teacher Mental Health?

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 11, 2018

Kate Allender, of Tesla STEM High School, has designed a course integrating AP Psychology with a hands-on study of forensics. It’s not until the second-period bell rings, however, that you begin to see how different this is from a traditional psychology course. Photo: Amadou Diallo, for The Hechinger Report. REDMOND, Wash. —

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 22, 2024

The debate reignited among university professors during the pandemic with the 2021 online publication of a commentary in the journal Educational Psychology Review. It’s also known as exploration, discovery learning or simply “scientific practices.” Other academics took notice. Traditionalists applauded it.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2018

I see the student veterans in my classroom, many of them using the same GI Bill I did, struggling to figure out how they fit into this world of psychology and how they can make a real impact. Related: Despite family and work commitments, student veterans outpace classmates. We can’t wait for the civilian world to create solutions for us.

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The Effortful Educator

AUGUST 5, 2024

I’ve written for the American Psychological Association several, Education Week, Edutopia, National Education Association, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and many more. As Sweller, Ayers, and Kalyuga stated in their book , “Without knowledge of human cognitive processes, instructional design is blind.”

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 24, 2019

Guiding questions presented by the teacher can help students define a topic, create meaning from new information, and make connections between their learning and their world. “If Educators must deliberately create space for reflection that is separate from activities of information gathering and knowledge construction.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Riconscente recommends products provide positive, informative feedback that enables the learner to deepen their understanding. For example, learners become engaged when they have just enough information to know what might happen, but the final outcome remains uncertain (4,6). Psychological Inquiry,11(4), 227–268. Boggiano, A.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2022

And because information and data are critical to human survival, it’s understandable that people crave instant access to the millions of bits of information that tech/smartphones offer. Tech and social media companies excel at marketing every advancement related to them as positive and cool must-haves. But there are costs.

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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. In its current connotation, worldview is seen as a combination of the following information which social scientists can gather from the field (E. Mendelson 1956): 1.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2020

I’d already adapted this class in 2013 as one of Coursera’s free online humanities offerings. They miss the opportunities that campuses provide to amplify the straightforward instruction from classes via serendipitous encounters, informal discussion and collaborative discovery.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

First, as I’ve done since my student days, I generously highlighted key information in my background reading. Luckily for all of us, the journal Psychological Science in the Public Interest published a review article a few years ago that remains the most comprehensive guide out there. Gotta love that command-C, command-V.)

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 18, 2016

George’s to implement research-informed practices. One theory that has greatly informed their work is self-determination theory , which identifies three components that can help students develop intrinsic motivation: autonomy in learning, relatedness, and competence (4,6). Psychological inquiry,11(4), 227-268.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2018

dedicated to information, the press and journalism. Students often find themselves on the front lines of the battle against the ever-multiplying mass of inaccurate and intentionally misleading information online. A display at the Newseum in Washington, D.C., Photo: © Maxppp via ZUMA Press.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 10, 2023

My next class was in the psychology department, on the topic of lifespan development. The class covers how humans change over different points in their lives, and it’s taught by Amy Meeks, a senior lecturer who has been teaching for 20 years. In this class, I mostly saw students following along closely, and taking notes.

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