Digital Promise

OCTOBER 1, 2018

The point is that the connections between humanities and science have been lost in today’s separation of disciplines. Indeed, a recent report by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences discovered that humanities and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) training majors largely dwell in different silos.

Humanities 87

Humanities Social Science Sociology Anthropology 87

Teaching Anthropology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Editor Sherry is the Associate Chair and Assistant Professor Teaching Stream in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto Mississauga, specializing in pedagogical research in biological anthropology, and community-engaged learning with the local Indigenous community.

Anthropology 130

Anthropology Social Science Community Engagement Humanities 130

Teaching Anthropology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Editor Sherry is the Associate Chair and Assistant Professor Teaching Stream in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto Mississauga, specializing in pedagogical research in biological anthropology, and community-engaged learning with the local Indigenous community.

Anthropology 130

Anthropology Social Science Community Engagement Humanities 130

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 7, 2024

A trio of researchers at the University of Michigan, including one whose surname begins with W, documented an unintended consequence of grading in alphabetical order. The study is described in a 2024 draft paper posted on the website of SSRN, formerly known as the Social Science Research Network.

Social Science 145

Social Science Research Humanities High School 145

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. However, the researchers cautioned that these correlations were very small and should be interpreted with caution.) Study 3a included a survey of 130 U.S. immediate family).

Social Science 97

Social Science Research History Humanities 97

Society for Classical Studies

JANUARY 17, 2025

The program demonstrates the dynamic capacity of the humanities to advance justice and equity in society and illuminates career pathways for recent PhDs beyond the academy. Fellows will take on roles in advocacy, policy research, communications, public engagement, and more.

Social Justice 52

Social Justice Museum Social Science Professional Development 52

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

None of that math may be necessary for the vast majority of undergraduates who don’t intend to major in science or another STEM field. I felt that it really gave me breadth as a human being.” This story also appeared in Mind/Shift But those same students don’t have many of the math skills that professors think they actually do need.

High School 143

High School K-12 Social Science Humanities 143

The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2020

To get a better job” is the top reason freshmen say they enrolled at a public university , UCLA’s Higher Education Research Institute reports. The proportion of undergraduates who receive bachelor’s degrees in the humanities has fallen from a high of one in six to about one in 20 , according to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Anthropology 144

Anthropology Social Science Sociology Humanities 144

ED Surge

AUGUST 12, 2024

Writing doesn’t have that much meaning without a human audience. Finding a Balance Writing centers need to find a balance between introducing AI into the writing process and keeping the human support that every writer needs, argues Anna Mills, an English instructor at the College of Marin.

Tutoring 135

Tutoring Humanities Social Science Teaching 135

The Hechinger Report

MAY 5, 2022

Subsequent research and statements from math experts questioned the relevance and efficacy of traditional pathways to calculus for all students. Research found that 80 percent of students said they took AP Calculus because it “looks good on college applications.” It’s time to reconsider the dominance of calculus.

High School 109

High School K-12 Social Science Political Science 109

The Hechinger Report

JULY 26, 2021

Over the past decade, researchers, museum professionals and educators have started to explore the use of virtual and augmented reality in relation to Holocaust education and memory. Sara Pitcairn is the product developer and researcher for Future Projects at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Museum 129

Museum Teaching Primary Sources Human Rights 129

Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Project Title: Racial Justice as Human Rights: Support for Reform in American Policing Genevieve Bates, University of Wisconsin-Madison Genevieve Bates is an Anna Julia Cooper Research Associate and an incoming Assistant Professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She received her Ph.D.

Human Rights 56

Human Rights Humanities Political Science Social Science 56

ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

At Project Information Literacy (PIL), the nonprofit independent research institute I lead, a group of library and information science and new media researchers — including myself — conduct national research about the information seeking behavior of college students and recent graduates.

Civic Engagement 136

Civic Engagement Civics Library Social Science 136

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

A recent explosion of research from the neurobiological, behavioral, and social sciences has illuminated new knowledge about how children learn. Research from neuroscience now confirms that the first years of life are critical for developing the architecture of the brain and future capacities to learn.

Social Science 108

Social Science Humanities Research Cultures 108

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 23, 2019

Other research suggests the share is much lower — but while the exact numbers may be debated, there’s little question that technology is changing quickly and reconfiguring the tasks many of us do. But that’s not enough, he told me in an interview: “You need to also focus on what we humans can do that machines cannot do.”

Economics 108

Economics Social Science Humanities Tradition 108

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2023

I entered college in 1989 with an interest in human rights advocacy, planning to be a lawyer. Still, my reaction to the current dialogue about humanities is this: The best way to save the English major is to abandon it. The English major (like many other majors in the humanities and sciences), goes back much further than that.

Humanities 103

Humanities Advocacy Human Rights Social Science 103

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2023

The actual names may vary: We have the College of Arts and Sciences, while Stanford — where I earned my Ph.D. in particle physics — has the School of Humanities and Sciences. Colleges of arts and sciences are the beating hearts of many universities. dance, film, theater) to the humanities (e.g.,

Sociology 104

Sociology Education Political Science Pedagogy 104

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

Plato wrote that his teacher Socrates fretted that writing things down would cause humans to become ignorant because they wouldn’t have to memorize anything. The researchers didn’t actually study how people use Google or any internet search engine. The skepticism in the research community clashed with our gut feelings.

Psychology 98

Psychology Humanities Research Social Science 98

Society for Classical Studies

APRIL 4, 2024

The HRFP, the only residential fellowship program west of the Mississippi in Hellenic studies broadly conceived, enables visiting scholars to conduct research using the Tsakopoulos Hellenic Collection in Sacramento, CA. This year we are happy to inaugurate writer-in-residence fellowships as an addition to the Program.

Research 40

Research Archiving Primary Sources Artifacts 40

The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2023

“It’s a great feeling of satisfaction,” said Logue, now a research professor at CUNY’s Graduate Center, “because it isn’t just CUNY. Some researchers argue that the shift to statistics might have made the difference. It’s across the country, using this really great evidence to help make things better.”

Tutoring 120

Tutoring Tradition Research Social Science 120

ED Surge

JANUARY 10, 2023

Through my work as director of MIT’s Teaching Systems Lab , I’ve asked the question to teachers, school leaders, coaches, researchers and experts of all stripes (think: learning science, instruction, teacher education, culturally responsive teaching and so on), and it typically elicits more pauses and wonderings than answers.

Local History 129

Local History Civics Lesson Plan Social Science 129

The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2018

Related: How to save the humanities? 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. Leave this field empty if you're human: Small private liberal arts colleges also continue to close, most recently St.

Humanities 91

Humanities Social Science History Economics 91

Anthropology 365

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Anthropology is the study of humans, or as Dr. Jon Marks says: “the study of who we are and where we come from.” ” I consider it to be the study of humans and the variety of relationships humans have. However, for much of my career, I have studied non-human animals (mostly primates).

Humanities 40

Humanities Anthropology Archaeology Cultures 40

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2023

We’ve been doing research with New York City Public Schools for the past 6-7 years. If we don’t offer educators the opportunity to rethink their intellectual ideas — about climate change, science, inequality — it makes it really difficult to do this work.” Social science does not support that.

Teaching 96

Teaching K-12 Professional Development Civics 96

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Felecia Commodore came into her job search armed with a University of Pennsylvania doctorate in higher education and published research papers. citizen or permanent resident research doctoral recipients in 2014 were black and 6.5 percent were Hispanic, according to the National Science Foundation. Felecia Commodore. Although 13.3

Social Science 111

Social Science Leadership Education Policy Research 111

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 2, 2021

Jennifer Greif Green, an associate professor in the Wheelock College of Education and Human Development at Boston University, said most of a child’s interactions with adults are with their parents and teachers, “so any disruption to that is really going to have an impact on that whole ecosystem and all those relationships.”. Not even close.”.

Psychology 140

Psychology High School Teaching Humanities 140

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 29, 2018

English, humanities, and social science classes build these skills, as do projects and presentations in technical courses, where professors and peers provide feedback. Technicians need to be able to listen and read to develop an understanding of customers’ needs.

Social Science 87

Social Science High School Critical Thinking Humanities 87

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2016

The clarity of a good poem is the ideal tonic for the meandering writing so often characteristic of grants and research papers. That’s just the writing, not counting the time spent on doing the research. Clearly written papers and research grants are more likely to pass through peer review than ill-phrased offerings.

Teaching 68

Teaching Social Science Cultures Humanities 68

Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

. — FEBRUARY 13, 2024 De Gruyter and the American Political Science Association (APSA) are pleased to announce agreement on a cooperation partnership to publish two new book series: The De Gruyter-APSA Teaching Civic Engagement Series and The De Gruyter-APSA Political Science Professional Development Series.

Political Science 56

Political Science Civic Engagement Civics Professional Development 56

Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The training collaboration between the department and APSA coincided with the establishment of the Social Sciences Lab at the college and thus, both workshops aimed at supporting the mission of the lab to disseminate cutting-edge skills among the faculty.

Political Science 52

Political Science Social Science Research Humanities 52

Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

The UC Davis California History Social Science Project frames current events within their historical context , connecting students’ present to the past. And, if I was stuck for an idea for class, I could access the Social Studies lesson plans at Educade or the 400+ lesson plans at the EDSITEment!

Social Studies 76

Social Studies Teaching Archiving Geography 76

Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Their research and teaching focuses on the intersections of climate justice and queer liberation, environmental justice, and social movements. They have published in Energy Research & Social Science and AAPI Nexus and contributed to Edward Elgar’s A Research Agenda for Human Rights edited volume.

Political Science 54

Political Science Human Rights Social Science Humanities 54

Political Science Now

JUNE 10, 2024

In the APSA Public Scholarship Program, graduate students in political science produce summaries of new research in the American Political Science Review. Conversations are a primary way for human beings to interact, exchange ideas, and understand each other. This piece, written by Irem B. Boyd, Paul M. Collins, Jr.,

Political Science 63

Political Science Social Science Humanities Research 63

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2018

The isolated few who conduct terrorist attacks like those on my great-grandfather’s church think of the Coptic people, my people, as sub-human. exceeded post-9/11 levels , according to the Pew Research Center. For example, in 2017, assaults on Muslims in the U.S. We are facing a fight over intellectual diversity. .”

Social Science 73

Social Science Humanities Teaching Research 73

Anthropology News

AUGUST 11, 2024

Their first child, Professor Benjamin Glick, was born during their research in the highlands. 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.

Anthropology 52

Anthropology Psychology History Social Science 52

Edthena

DECEMBER 14, 2023

This data comes from an independent study published in Nature’s “Humanities and Social Sciences Communications.” In the News Preservice teachers enhanced their teaching competencies in 11 of 14 categories using Edthena’s Video Coaching platform.

Teaching 52

Teaching Social Science Humanities Professional Development 52

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2017

But finishing in four years matters, because research shows that the longer it takes, the less likely a student is to make it to graduation. A quarter of students drop out after four years, according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. Some states’ figures are even higher.

Archaeology 82

Archaeology Tutoring History Advocacy 82