Archives for 2021

Gearing Up or Burning Out? Survey Findings Show Wellbeing is Top Concern for Higher Ed Faculty
Insights
September 16, 2021

Gearing Up or Burning Out? Survey Findings Show Wellbeing is Top Concern for Higher Ed Faculty

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Hispanic Heritage Month Resource Collection
Resources
September 15, 2021

Hispanic Heritage Month Resource Collection

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A Look at the Terminology Behind Hispanic Heritage Month
International Debate
September 15, 2021

A Look at the Terminology Behind Hispanic Heritage Month

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Decolonizing Your Subject Discipline: Where to Begin
Higher Education Reform
September 14, 2021

Decolonizing Your Subject Discipline: Where to Begin

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Surely We Can Get Past This Toxic Boomer v. Millennial Mythologizing

Surely We Can Get Past This Toxic Boomer v. Millennial Mythologizing

Generational thinking is a big idea that’s been horribly corrupted and devalued by endless myths and stereotypes.

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DBASSE Director to Retire, Sparking Hunt for Replacement

DBASSE Director to Retire, Sparking Hunt for Replacement

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine has begun the search for a new executive director for the National Research Council’s […]

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Some Thoughts on Academic Internationalization in China

Some Thoughts on Academic Internationalization in China

Within Communist academia, scholarship is managed top-down to a significant degree, for the benefit of part, state and society, and independent research operates in the nooks and crannies that remain. In this institutional environment, independent public speech carries a considerable risk, as does, to an extent, independent thought.

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How Do America’s Teachers Teach 9/11 and its Aftermath?

How Do America’s Teachers Teach 9/11 and its Aftermath?

The phrase “Never Forget” is often associated with the terror attacks of September 11, 2001. But what does this phrase mean for U.S. students who are too young to remember? What are they being asked to never forget?

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Social and Behavioral Science Responds to 9/11: Some Readings

Social and Behavioral Science Responds to 9/11: Some Readings

In the two decades since 9/11, social and behavioral science responded with a wealth of research on the motivations — and the aftermaths — of the terrorist attacks. The collection of free-to-read articles drawn from journals produced by SAGE Publishing (the parent of Social Science Space) during those intervening decades demonstrates the breadth of that research and the various ways that these acts of violence still resonate in lives and in scholarship around the globe.

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Traditional Chinese Medicine and the COVID-19 Pandemic

Traditional Chinese Medicine and the COVID-19 Pandemic

Studies of medicine in China must not neglect Chinese medicine, writes medical sociologist Robert Dingwall..

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Molefi Kete Asante on Afrocentrism

Molefi Kete Asante on Afrocentrism

In this Social Science Bites podcast, Molefi Kete Asante offers an insiders view of the growth of the Afrocentric paradigm, from the founding of the Journal of Black Studies a half century ago to the debates over critical race theory today.

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With COVID and Climate Change Showing Social Science’s Value, Why Cut it Now?

With COVID and Climate Change Showing Social Science’s Value, Why Cut it Now?

What are the three biggest challenges Australia faces in the next five to ten years? What role will the social sciences play in resolving these challenges? The Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia asked these questions in a discussion paper earlier this year. The backdrop to this review is cuts to social science disciplines around the country, with teaching taking priority over research.

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