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Research-Influenced Learning Spaces

A Principal's Reflections

Research should be used to inform as well as influence the actions we take to implement sustainable change at scale. The effect of learning spaces on various behaviors—territoriality, crowding, situational and personal space—has been the focus of some sociological and environment behavioral research. Godwin, K., & & Seltman, H.

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Research: The Influence of Socioeconomic Status on Learning

TeachThought

Keywords: socioeconomic status, informer choice, late-emerging reading development, standardized testings, student attainment, service-learning How Socioeconomic Status Influences Learning At the beginning of the school year, teachers are made aware of characteristics of their students in order to create accommodations. link] Corriveau, K.

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Psychological technologies

This Is Not a Sociology Blog

Psychoanalysis Some of the most important “technologies” of psychology were developed by Sigmund Freud. Behaviourism While Freudian psychoanalysis was hugely influential in the 20 th century another completely different strand of psychological investigation was developed almost concurrently, this is “behaviourism”.

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PowerPoint: The ABC of Investigating

ShortCutsTV

This spin-off from the burgeoning Sociological Detectives Universe™ is a vehicle by which you can simply and not-a-little-secretly introduce a soupcon of Study Skills into what we’re contractually obliged to call “The Student eXperience” (sic).

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Learning How to Wash Your Hands in Anthropology Class 

Teaching Anthropology

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. I found them to be uplifting and informative, especially in this uncertain time. It is not one size fits all’.

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What is Learning Sciences and Why Does It Matter?

Digital Promise

In contrast, prior psychological research on learning was often conducted in a lab with artificial tasks and then applied to more realistic educational activities and settings. These terms represent distinct research traditions and inform our understanding in different and complementary ways.

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Progress in getting underrepresented people into college and skilled jobs may be stalling because of the pandemic

The Hechinger Report

Heather Hunter, a psychology major at Wichita State University who has a part-time job in a foster-care agency, said only four high school students in foster care showed up for a workshop to help them fill out that federal form required to qualify for financial aid. We have to fight three times as hard now.”. College enrollments have fallen.