Information Psychology Social Science 
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.
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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The Hechinger Report
MAY 5, 2022
In fact, admissions officers say students who wish to gain admission to competitive universities often feel compelled to take the course, even if they intend to major in social science or humanities. After all, this is what most colleges do: Students interested in science and engineering take the traditional algebra-to-calculus path.
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 7, 2023
Not long after the search engine company was founded in 1998, psychologists began to wonder how the ability to have so much information instantly available was changing our brains. A seminal 2011 paper established the so-called “Google effect,” our tendency to forget information that we can easily look up on the internet.
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. We could search for pins on Native American history , Middle East cultures , Japanese history , government , geography , sociology , psychology , economics , and numerous other topics.
The Hechinger Report
JULY 8, 2019
At FCI Dublin, women were studying English literature, psychology and sociology when Metz first arrived. Buck had earned her bachelor’s degree in psychology at Dublin the year before the ban. She earned her bachelor’s degree in psychology a few months after Metz came home. Metz told Buck she was scared of the test.
Anthropology for Beginners
MAY 22, 2023
Culture and Personality Culture and personality is the name of a broad unrecognized movement which brings cultural anthropology, psychology and psychiatry together from about 1928 to 1955. After 1960s the field becomes known as psychological anthropology. Its founders are Margaret Mead, Edward Sapir, are all students of Franz Boas.
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