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.

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Teaching Anthropology

MAY 8, 2023

Anthropology modules appear in programs in three programs I have taught: Archaeology and Anthropology, Human Sciences, and Music. I first trialed active learning strategies while teaching at the University of Oxford, where one of the challenges of teaching anthropology is the diverse background of the students (Bastide, 2012).

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2023

in particle physics — has the School of Humanities and Sciences. dance, film, theater) to the humanities (e.g., economics, political science, sociology) and the natural and mathematical sciences. dance, film, theater) to the humanities (e.g., Colleges of arts and sciences are the beating hearts of many universities.

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Anthropology News

APRIL 17, 2024

In 1961, Gerlach was hired as an assistant professor of anthropology and sociology at Lafayette College, in Easton, Pennsylvania. He directed the graduate program in human ecology, which he founded and coordinated, and served as an instructor in Peace Corps training programs on campus.

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C3 Teachers

JUNE 6, 2024

See my first post on The Building Blocks of Inquiry here If you made a list of the top 10 challenges social studies teachers would say they face in the classroom, you may get the list of usual suspects: lack of time, political squabbles over standards, trying to cover all of human history in a semester. What does this look like?

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Strange Maps

AUGUST 12, 2023

A landscape of human skull shapes These black-and-white maps are aesthetically attractive as well as invitingly strange. ” To be more precise: these maps plot a landscape of human skull shapes. A lecturer on sociology at Columbia and a professor of economics at Harvard, he was particularly influential in U.S. Credit : Z.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 23, 2017

The evidence of such connections came from the medical understanding of how human sensory perception affects cognitive calculations. As such, Barrett and Zang (2009) identify three key design principles: Naturalness : Hardwired into our brains, humans have the basic need for light, air, and safety.

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Anthropology for Beginners

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The roots of the anthropological interest in peasants were elsewhere, in the comparative study of the human condition. The central issue to which the early studies were addressed was the nature of human communities; they were, first of all, village studies, and only incidentally studies of peasants.

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Anthropology for Beginners

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Every world view distinguishes (a) part of the self from another part, thus establishing, as it were, a dialogue within the self; (b) a human nature from that which is nonhuman; (c) classes and categories of the human, i.e., social persons (e.g., Social (psychology, sociology, communications, history, cosmology) 4. Ithaca, N.Y.:

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ED Surge

MARCH 23, 2023

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. to transition away from human slavery as its dependent workforce for crop production and infrastructure development.

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This Is Not a Sociology Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2017

David Armstrong (1995) has famously analysed the emergence of what he refers to as “surveillance medicine” this involves the extension of the “medical gaze” from the human body and its biology into social spaces. 1995) ‘The rise of surveillance medicine’ Sociology of Health & Illness, 17(3): 393-404. Armstrong, D. Petersen, AR.

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ED Surge

APRIL 12, 2023

Even more astonishing, five of my former students decided to become high school history teachers, just like me: Paula Katrina Camaya : a former Chicago Public Schools educator currently teaching civics and humanities at Evanston Township High School (ETHS) in Evanston, Illinois. This is her third year in the profession.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 2, 2021

Until now, the work has been done by students of sociology and psychology and anthropology. For almost as long as there have been wars, there have been people who study veterans. But a specific degree program to study veterans is being launched this fall at Saint Leo University in central Florida.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Sara Goldrick-Rab, professor of sociology and medicine, Temple University. Largent said Michigan State has provided additional financial help to the highest-need students, and has also been digging through data to figure out which students might benefit most from some human contact. Students just are not OK. Out of the country’s 2.6

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This Is Not a Sociology Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2017

For 1000 years after Galen’s death almost no original anatomical inquiries were performed, mainly because the Church was against the dissection of human bodies. They are in this is not so different from the artistic representations of the body produced by Renaissance artists and based on their own first hand assessment of human anatomy.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

DECEMBER 17, 2018

[ Every week a ‘Monday Morning Message (MMM)’ email goes out to all doctoral students from a faculty or staff member in the CU Denver School of Education and Human Development. Tressie McMillan Cottom, @tressiemcphd , tressiemc.com (sociology and higher education) . Here’s my second one, which came out today. ].

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 9, 2020

Leave this field empty if you're human: “There are millions of kids in this country who have ADHD and legitimately need a diagnosis,” said Jayanti Owens, a Brown University sociologist who conducted the data-driven study, “but the question for me is when you have kids for whom it is not a clear-cut ADHD diagnosis.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 22, 2020

They thought we would be more interested in audio engineering than engineering,” said Kamara, now a junior at Wesleyan University studying English and sociology. Meanwhile, they were more likely to enroll in courses in hospitality and, in the case of Black students in particular, human services. That was a hard pill to swallow.”.

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ED Surge

APRIL 6, 2022

Instead, the New Orleans resident was excited to start a job in the human resources department of a Fortune 500 energy company. Budding businessman Vernell Cheneau III had decided against going to college by the time he graduated from high school in spring 2021. Vernell says he has been doing great work at Entergy ever since.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2018

The unknown impacts of human ingenuity, climate change and demographic shifts in an increasingly global world, among myriad other forces, ensures that the future will be unpredictable. Liberal arts students learn about the breadth of the world and the ideas that have been central to our understanding of humanity and the world around us.

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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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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 10, 2013

Below is a listing of some of activities that incorporated digital learning: In Mrs. Collentine’s Humanities class, students worked in the computer lab on researching the history of drama and theater in the culture of their own heritage. Groff’s Digital Journalism class researched and wrote stories, as per any other normal day in class.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2019

Paul Attewell, a sociology and education professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, is the second author. Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update. Future of Learning. Higher Education. Mississippi Learning. Proof Points.

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Strange Maps

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

About 46% of humans, well over three billion people, are native speakers of an Indo-European language. Proto-Indo-European (PIE) is a language that gave rise to many others. But where did PIE first arise, and who spoke it: pastoralists from the Pontic steppe straddling eastern Europe and west Asia or agrarians from Anatolia in Turkey?

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Paul Public Schools, speaks with Yusanat Tway (right), a first-generation University of Minnesota student interested in attending law school but worried that work in human rights advocacy will not pay enough to justify the cost. Credit: Laura Pappano for The Hechinger Report. It will cost $200K” to get a law degree, she said.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 2, 2020

Among other subjects, the students here take courses in sociology, psychology, English composition, science and math — all at the site of the kind of business where the principles they learn in the classroom and from textbooks can be put into practice. Photo: Oliver Parini for The Hechinger Report.

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This Is Not a Sociology Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

The big message of Black Mirror is not that technology is taking over our lives and removing our humanity (although these are certainly present as possibilities) as some episodes are quite optimistic about the potential of immersive technologies (e.g. “ San Junipero “, “ Striking Vipers “).

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This Is Not a Sociology Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

In this post I will develop these points through a consideration of the impact of genetic technologies on how human bodies and health are understood and managed. The ability to analyse our genetic material has had a big impact on how we understand what it is to be human and what it is possible to do to and know about our bodies.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2019

He was working with his anatomy and physiology professor to brainstorm an illustration of what happens when human cells are exposed to the chemical warfare agent Sarin gas. His goal was to build a physical prototype that can teach students how cells work by showing them what happens when a cellular calamity occurs.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Inside the grand, art deco-influenced building, students study rhetoric and sociology, Antigone and anthropology. Anayya Davis finds the heart to be the most surprising thing about the human body. It’s the latest “microcollege” from Bard, which started a college-in-prison initiative in 1999 and a program for student moms in 2016.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2020

said Christina Ciocca Eller, an assistant professor of sociology and social studies at Harvard University who studies regional public universities. There is big tension over purpose and identity.”. Basic questions — Who should O.U.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: They’re both highly regarded quantitative researchers at Stanford University. She just published a study, “ The Global Increase in the Socioeconomic Achievement Gap, 1964 to 2015 ,” in the American Sociological Review, a peer-reviewed journal, in May 2019. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2020

Left vulnerable when the coronavirus pandemic hit, Missouri Western is now cutting nearly a third of its faculty and at least 98 majors, minors and concentrations , including in English, history, chemistry, biology, philosophy, sociology, political science, computer technology, music and art.

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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. In the next post I will explore how genetic technologies are affecting how understand what it means to be human.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

web site from the National Endowment for the Humanities, including a very popular set for AP U.S. We could search for pins on Native American history , Middle East cultures , Japanese history , government , geography , sociology , psychology , economics , and numerous other topics.

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Strange Maps

JULY 13, 2023

These traits help explain many aspects of human behavior. The same applies to supposedly conservative Texas, where the results for large metropolitan areas like Dallas, Houston, and Austin deviate significantly from those in other parts of the state.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The University of Alaska system has scaled back more than 40 academic programs , including earth sciences, geography and environmental resources, sociology, hospitality administration and theater. A disproportionate number of humanities and science programs are being dropped.

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