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SHAPE in Schools: Changing mindsets in support of social sciences, humanities and the arts

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SHAPE in Schools: Changing mindsets in support of social sciences, humanities and the arts Published: Social sciences, humanities and the arts are vital for addressing complex challenges, but do young people truly understand their value? What is SHAPE?

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How can place attachment improve scientific literacy?

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Published: At Furman University in the US, Dr Ben Haywood and Professor Julia Parrish from the University of Washington are studying how citizen science programmes impact the relationships participants have with the places and ecology they study which might, in turn, increase scientific literacy. How are Ben and Julia working on this?

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Using big datasets to find out what affects children’s quality of life

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Professor Birgitta Rabe is using this data to inform government support for children’s well-being. Economics — a branch of social science that studies the production, distribution and consumption of goods and services, as well as a huge variety of other complex issues of vital concern to society. TALK LIKE AN … ECONOMIST.

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How can engineering address human rights issues?

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By combining engineering and human rights disciplines, he is researching the links between access to transport and the inequalities facing Peruvians today. This required data about social factors in each district, such as the population age structure, level of employment and literacy rate. This process is known as peripheralisation.

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Technology and Explanation in Modern Education

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Topics like health, history, geography, music, etc. Make use of the Internet and have students check the news to improve their research skills. Technology itself requires a multitude of combined knowledge to sustain and develop; such as science, math, language, coding, and social science.

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Prosecuting rap: can we get racial discrimination out of the courtroom?

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This is a practice that an international network of scholars, including Professor Eithne Quinn from the University of Manchester in the UK, has found to be structurally racist. Professor Eithne Quinn and her American Studies students at the University of Manchester, in the UK (Photo credit: Eithne Quinn). Published: June 21, 2022.

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Monitoring the canopy temperature of forests

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Addo-Danso , of the CSIR-Forestry Research Institute of Ghana , are collaborating on a global project that seeks to monitor the canopy temperature of forests. Sophie is an environmental scientist based at the University of Plymouth in the UK, while Shalom is an ecologist based at the CSIR-Forestry Research Institute of Ghana in Africa.