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Here are five steps high schools can take to support students' mental health.
Here’s the thing about imposter’s syndrome — almost everyone has experienced it. The gruff guy in the office — has it. The executive who appears cool and calm no matter what the situation — she probably has it too. The young guns, who look like they don’t have a care in the world — if they didn’t feel it yet, it almost certainly will come. It’s a fundamental part of the human experience. For some reason, we doubt ourselves, we feel less-than. And that’s all imposter syndrome is.
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The free, downloadable adult coloring books that the New York Academy of Medicine solicits from museums and university and state libraries for its #ColorOurCollections celebration each February enliven our month far more than any Valentine or Presidents Day sale. They’re not just a great way to while away winter’s last gasp. They’re also a wonderful portal for discovering cultural institutions that have thusfar flown beneath our radar, owing to size, geography, and/or field of study.
This blog was contributed by Jenny Shaw, Higher External Education Engagement Director at Unite Students. So much of student life is shaped by the experience of being in student accommodation. Living in a student community, making new friends, meeting people from different backgrounds, managing day-to-day life independently are all learning experiences in their own right. Moreover, the sense of belonging, support and safety within that community of peers provides a foundation that can increase the ability to study well and thrive at university.
In addition to recognizing the civil rights movement, teachers can use Black History Month to call attention to the achievements of Black Americans in other areas.
Colonisation is invasion: a group of people taking over the land and imposing their own culture on Indigenous people. Modern colonisation dates back to the Age of Discovery in the 15th century, as European nations sought to expand their influence and wealth. In the process, representatives of these countries claimed the land, ignoring the Indigenous people and erasing Indigenous sovereignty.
The term fascism gets thrown around a great deal these days, not always with high regard to consistency of meaning. Much like Orwellian, it now seems often to function primarily as a label for whichever political developments the speaker doesn’t like. Even back in the 1940s, Orwell himself took to the Tribune in an attempt to pin down what had already become a “much-abused word.” Half a century later, the question of what fascism actually is and how exactly it works was addressed by another novelist, and one of a seemingly quite different sensibility: Toni Morrison, author of The Bluest Eye and Beloved.
The lie of the land: Britain’s hidden legacies of slavery in Eugene Palmer’s paintings.
The practice and privilege of academic science has been slow in trickling down from its origins as a pursuit of leisured gentleman. While many a leisured lady may have taken an interest in science, math, or philosophy, most women were denied participation in academic institutions and scholarly societies during the scientific revolution of the 1700s. Only a handful of women — seven known in total — were granted doctoral degrees before the year 1800. It wasn’t until 1678 that a female scholar was given the distinction, some four centuries or so after the doctorate came into being. While several intellectuals and even clerics of the time held progressive attitudes about gender and education, they were a decided minority.
Perhaps the biggest challenge we face when accessing information is confronting our biases before we are able to unpack the opinions and insights of other people. Often these biases are unconscious or implicit, meaning we might not even be aware we have them.
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In the 1950s, it was fashionable to drop Freud’s name — often as not in pseudo-intellectual sex jokes. Freud’s preoccupations had as much to do with his fame as the actual practice of psychotherapy, and it was assumed — and still is to a great degree — that Freud had “won” the debate with his former student and friend Carl Jung, who saw religion, psychedelic drugs, occult practices, etc. as valid forms of individualizing and integrating human selves — selves that were after all, he thought, connected by far more than biological drives for sex and death.
We speak frequently of 2020-21 as a year of tumult. A deadly virus and a global reckoning on the equally destructive force of structural racism have undoubtedly turned the higher education sector – as well as our own lives – on its head. But to what extent has the resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement really transformed the way we talk about, think about and act in response to racism and the legacy of colonialism in our universities?
Here’s an extraordinary film of the great Swiss psychologist Carl Gustav Jung speaking at length about some of his key contributions to psychology. Jung on Film (above) is a 77-minute collection of highlights from four one-hour interviews Jung gave to psychologist Richard I. Evans of the University of Houston in August of 1957. In “Sitting Across From Carl Jung,” an article for the Association of Psychological Science, Evans explains
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Finding a way to streamline a convoluted and cumbersome curriculum refresh process from home is a monumental task. By simplifying the process thanks to easy-to-use systems, schools can find themselves weeks ahead of schedule.
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Wordle isn’t the only word game that can teach children while also entertaining them.
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When it comes to mobile learning or learning on the go, podcasts (and audiobooks) are a game changer. They enable users to access a wealth of knowledge that can be consumed virtually anywhere, and anytime. There are tons of podcasts out there which makes it super hard for an already busy teacher to sift through the piles to find the relevant ones. I did the legwork!
When it comes to decolonising the school curriculum, teachers can serve as important agents for change. Martin Johnson and Melissa Mouthaan, both researchers at Cambridge Assessment, explain the role that teacher training and development can play in decolonisation efforts.
In 2020, researchers in the Education and Curriculum strand at Cambridge Assessment’s Research Division launched a collaborative project with OCR to assist the exam board in identifying ways to decolonise within its scope of activities. One of the areas we examined was teacher training and professional development, as our initial research indicated that this is an important but overlooked issue in the research literature on decolonisation.
Chinese Jamaican music producers helped turn reggae into a global sensation—one that would eventually reach all the way back to China, where a new generation has taken it up as a rhythm of protest.
Below is a collection of inspiring teacher quotes that I curated over the last few days. These are nuggets of wisdom that came out of the mouths of notable individuals whose thoughts, ideas, deeds, and activism, have shaped the world as we know it today. I spent several hours researching, curating, and selecting what I believe are some of the best inspirational quotes for teachers, educators, and students.
When Rome conquered Carthage in the Third Punic War (149-146 BC), the Republic renamed the region Africa, for Afri, a word the Berbers used for local people in present-day Tunisia. (The Arabic word for the region was Ifriqiya.) Thereafter would the Roman Empire have a stronghold in North Africa: Carthage, the capital of the African Province under Julius and Augustus Caesar and their successors. The province thrived. Second only to the city of Carthage in the region, the city of Thysdrus was an important center of olive oil production and the hometown of Roman Emperor Septimius Severus, who bestowed imperial favor upon it, granting partial Roman citizenship to its inhabitants.
As educators, we have a responsibility to provide learning environments that support our students holistically. Because we can never know the full extent of everything that’s weighing on them, we should be proactive in this support for every child, and one way to do that is to intentionally practice and come to embody trauma-responsive educational practices in each choice that we make.As educators, we have a responsibility to provide learning environments that support our students holistically. Because we can never know the full extent of everything that’s weighing on them, we should be proactive in this support for every child, and one way to do that is to intentionally practice and come to embody trauma-responsive educational practices in each choice that we make.
A few years ago, the idea of “power poses” — that is, physical stances that increase the dynamism of one’s personality — gained a great many adherents in a very short time, but not long thereafter emerged doubts as to its scientific soundness. Nevertheless, while standing with your hands on your hips may not change who you are, we can fairly claim that such a thing as body language does exist. And in that language, certain bodily arrangements communicate better messages than others: according to the presenters of the talk above, keeping your hands power-poseishly on your hips is actually a textbook bad public-speaking position, down there with shoving them in your pockets or clasping them before you in the dreaded “fig leaf.”
The number of artworks inspired by Dante’s Divine Comedy in the seven hundred years since the poet completed his epic, vernacular masterwork is so vast that referring to the poem inevitably means referring to its illustrations. These began appearing decades after the poet’s death, and they have not stopped appearing since. Indeed, it might be fair to say that the title Divine Comedy (simply called Comedy before 1555) names not only an epic poem but also its many constellations of artworks and interpretations, which would have filled a modest-sized set of Dante encyclopedias before the internet.
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