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Fields and fungicides: mixing microbiology and social science

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Fields and fungicides: mixing microbiology and social science. THE IMPORTANCE OF SOCIAL SCIENCE. We have to consider farmers’ motivators from a social science perspective,” says human geographer Dr Ray Chan. THE IMPORTANCE OF SOCIAL SCIENCE. Published: May 25, 2022. NEXT STEPS. “We Pinterest.

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Graphing–9 Lesson Plans + 6 Online Resources

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Communication of Ideas : Graphs provide a universal language for communicating ideas across different fields. Whether in mathematics, science, economics, or engineering, graphs are commonly used to convey information in a concise and understandable manner.

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Why My Students Had to Embrace Their Imperfections to Learn a New Language

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I am a social sciences and Spanish teacher and a mother of three children, and with that comes the social and self-imposed pressure to show that all the pieces of my life fit together like a shiny mosaic. I wanted us to be in a community that felt like family, cheering each other on while becoming stronger communicators.

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Do Online Degrees Lead to Jobs as Reliably as Traditional Ones?

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Two theories proposed by notable twentieth-century scholars stand out—one by James Samuel Coleman, an American sociologist who worked at the University of Chicago, and the other by French structuralist Pierre Bourdieu, who taught at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris.

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Cyber security for the AI age

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Digitalisation is helping organisations to enhance communication and collaboration efforts, to innovate, and to stay competitive,” says Dr Burcu Bulgurcu, a cyber security researcher at Toronto Metropolitan University. Creativity, critical thinking and communication skills are becoming more important than ever.

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The Science Behind Linguistics

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New York, NY Although it is pretty evident that languages are a vital form of communication worldwide, it is not expected that one explores how language goes beyond what society expects. Since linguistics is considered a human social science, some unique subtopics within this field include phonetics and pragmatics.

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Is There Still Time to Build Equity into Virtual Reality Edtech?

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A few institutions have degree programs dedicated to that kind of training, such as Husson University in Maine, which integrates classes in coding, design, math and communications. Community colleges are central to this.” You have to build a pipeline, a labor force, that has the skill set to be able to do this,” Ray says.

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