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OPINION: This is no time to ban DEI initiatives in education; we need DEI more than ever

The Hechinger Report

MAY 5, 2024

Education administrators at all levels need to act now to resist a rising tide of efforts against social science knowledge. There, too often, struggling students attempt to discredit the educator and the field of social science. Usually, when a student in a classroom is not understanding the material, they ask for help.

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K-12 Sociology Social Science Education

Reading Is Fundamental: Using “Entrance Tickets” to Aid Student Learning

Norton Learning - Sociology

JANUARY 14, 2021

Janis Prince is an associate professor of sociology and chair of the Department of Social Sciences at Saint Leo University. She has taught at least 16 unique sociology classes, including the sociology of deviance, gender, race, medical sociology, along with quantitative and qualitative methods.

Sociology

Sociology Social Science Teaching

Short Course: Interpretive Process Tracing (QMMR C)

Political Science Now

AUGUST 13, 2024

We begin, meta-theoretically and conceptually, by building on the practice turn in sociology and political science. Ontologically, practice tracing is built on a relational understanding of the social world, which places the analytic focus squarely on process.

Sociology

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Short Course: The Logic & Best Practices of Process Tracing (QMMR A)

Political Science Now

AUGUST 15, 2024

While the examples are primarily drawn from international relations and comparative politics, the methods we discuss are applicable to all the subfields of political science, to sociology, economics, history, business studies, public policy, and many other fields.

Archiving

Archiving Sociology Social Science Political Science

OPINION: With a skeptical public, higher education must do a better job explaining why college is worth the investment

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2023

Generally, colleges of arts and sciences are large academic units within a university that offer a range of department-led majors and areas of study, research and creative activity: from the arts (e.g., English and other languages, history, religious studies), the social sciences (e.g.,

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Navigating the Challenges & Considerations of Fieldwork: APSA’s Committee on the Status of Graduate Students Virtual Workshop

Political Science Now

APRIL 26, 2024

and Master’s from the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles. Castañeda Pérez is an interdisciplinary scholar at the intersection of law, sociology and political science.

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Want More Innovation? Try Connecting the Dots Between Engineering and Humanities

Digital Promise

OCTOBER 1, 2018

These founders, hailing from leading universities as well as the US Atomic Energy Commission, IBM Corp and New York Life Insurance, knew that connecting the humanities and sciences helps us make informed judgments about our control of nature, ourselves and our destiny. And thus our course, The Impact of Materials on Society (IMOS) , was born.

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If I was teaching Social Studies today…

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.

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OPINION: Lessons from Mississippi: Is there really a miracle here we can all learn from?

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 14, 2023

Devon Brenner is the director of Social Science Research Center and a professor in the department of Teacher Education and Leadership at Mississippi State University. Gates Professor of Sociology and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. Pallas is the Arthur I.

Sociology

Sociology Social Science Elementary School Leadership

Enrollment and financial crises threaten growing list of academic disciplines

The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2020

“Any time they see an opportunity to attack particularly the humanities and the social sciences, that’s what they’ll go after.”. Any time they see an opportunity to attack particularly the humanities and the social sciences, that’s what they’ll go after.” Now these kinds of disciplines are in for even greater scrutiny.

Anthropology

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Urban Anthropology

Anthropology for Beginners

APRIL 29, 2021

The link between social forces and global capital with local politics and practices is especially clear in studies that examine grassroots organizing in response to urban transformations, and power dynamics, both local and global, in a variety of community contexts.

Anthropology

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What’s it like to teach psychology?

Jonathan Firth

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

For the past few years there have been a small number of funded teacher training posts specifically in Psychology or Social Sciences south of the border, and since 2016, the University of Strathclyde has run Scotland’s first – and so far, only – PGDE in Secondary Psychology. Some have their own degree programmes, too.

Psychology

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Cultural Dimensions of health - Introduction

Anthropology for Beginners

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Drawing from biological and social sciences, as well as clinical sciences, medical anthropologists have contributed significantly to the understanding and improvement of human health and health services worldwide. A specialised branch of anthropology, i.e,

Cultures

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From prison to dean’s list: How Danielle Metz got an education after incarceration

The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2019

At FCI Dublin, women were studying English literature, psychology and sociology when Metz first arrived. She’d signed up for general psychology and a social sciences elective called Introduction to Alcohol and Drug Abuse. By 1994, nine out of every 10 prison systems offered classes for incarcerated people.

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OPINION: This is no time to ban DEI initiatives in education; we need DEI more than ever

Reading Is Fundamental: Using “Entrance Tickets” to Aid Student Learning

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Short Course: Interpretive Process Tracing (QMMR C)

Short Course: The Logic & Best Practices of Process Tracing (QMMR A)

OPINION: With a skeptical public, higher education must do a better job explaining why college is worth the investment

Navigating the Challenges & Considerations of Fieldwork: APSA’s Committee on the Status of Graduate Students Virtual Workshop

Want More Innovation? Try Connecting the Dots Between Engineering and Humanities

If I was teaching Social Studies today…

OPINION: Lessons from Mississippi: Is there really a miracle here we can all learn from?

Enrollment and financial crises threaten growing list of academic disciplines

Urban Anthropology

What’s it like to teach psychology?

Cultural Dimensions of health - Introduction

From prison to dean’s list: How Danielle Metz got an education after incarceration

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