Music Literacy and Social Mobility
A study published in Social Science Quarterly shows that music lessons outside of school have a positive effect on literacy and math.
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Museum and Life-Long Learning
This week’s social science snack is about the importance of the museum as a place for life-long learning.
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Being a Black Woman and Public Social Scientist
Dr Robin Nelson is a biological anthropologist and a wonderful public scientist. Speaking with NPR, she reflects on why it’s important for her to share her academic training to talk about women’s issues on Twitter.
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Malala Yousafzai and children’s right activist Kailash Satyarthi were awarded the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize yesterday.
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Social Science Quote of the Week: Failure and Learning
Your Social Science Quote of the Week comes from Jennifer Riel, associate director of the Desautels Centre for Integrative Thinking at the University of Toronto. Riel writes: “We fail to create, because creativity brings with it the chance of failure, and failure is bad. It is dangerous to our ego and our livelihood. Yet, we know failure is crucial to learning – the key to embracing failure is to build opportunities for failure, and revision, into the innovation process as early as possible. Build rough prototypes and get testing, rather than waiting late into the process. The earlier you fail, the … Continue reading Social Science Quote of the Week: Failure and Learning
Social Science Quote of the Week: Sustainability
Your Social Science Quote of the Week comes from The United Nations Educational, Scientific & Cultural Organisation (UNESCO). Continue reading Social Science Quote of the Week: Sustainability
Social Science Quote: The Conquest of Leisure and Health
Toda’s social science quote comes from Bertrand Russell, mathematician and philospher, from On Education, Especially In Early Childhood. Below is the quote in context of arguments for, and against, practical education.
Careers in Sociology
In this video, I discuss the careers panel that I sat on as part of the annual conference for The Australian Sociological Association (TASA). Continue reading Careers in Sociology
Networking
Presenting your research at your first academic conference can be daunting to students. I’ve republished an article where I reflected on what it was like for me as a postgraduate.
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Pinterest tips for public education
Pinterest tips for public education
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