Henry Zonio, PhD

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Educator, Speaker, Author, Researcher | Sociologist (social inequalities, child development, & religious education) | Husband and Dad | 🇵🇭🇵🇹
Contributed a chapter to this book on the construction of gender in religious education spaces: Let the Children Lead: Exploring Children’s Spirituality Today bookshop.org/p/books/let-th… #kidmin #religiouseducation #gender #church

Here's how churches can play a crucial role in the anti-racist formation of children and youth

https://faithandleadership.com/heres-how-churches-can-play-crucial-role-the-anti-racist-formation-children-and-youth

Here's how churches can play a crucial role in the anti-racist formation of children and youth

Three explicit shifts can help shape programs that counter public efforts to limit teaching about racism and injustice.

Faith and Leadership

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/childrens-spirituality-summit-2023-virtual-gathering-tickets-526549863817

Use code ZONIO for 10% off registration.

Students can register for $25 using EDUCATION (only students please)

Children’s Spirituality Summit | 2023 Virtual Gathering

Join an online, live gathering of Christian practitioners and researchers as we consider "Generation Alpha."

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My department is hiring: at least one senior lecturer (~assistant or associate prof, tenured/ permanent) in sociology w/ a focus on working life & organisation. Feel free to reach out with questions about the department or about working as a foreigner in Sweden ;) Applications due March 27.

https://lu.varbi.com/what:job/jobID:593381/?lang=en

At least one Senior lecturer in Sociology - working life & organisation

Work duties The work duties of the position comprise teaching and research in sociology on both undergraduate and advanced levels. The employment consists of 70 percent teaching, 20 percent research a

a bunch of my friends are choosing between PhD programs. here's my advice to them:

it is FAR more important to work with someone who is kind, than someone who does exactly the research you want to do or is at a prestigious institution.

Excited about Godly Play conference! Looking forward to meeting Dr. Rode Molla and Dr. Karen Crozier. https://www.godlyplayfoundation.org/events/conference
Conference — Godly Play

Godly Play
Hanging out at Louisville Institute Winter Seminar :)

Enabling children to engage in more frequent and more team-based activity will benefit the development of their attention, planning, and self-control, particularly at grades 3 and 4.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34240519

#Recess #GymClass #Sports #ADHD #NICHDImpact

Amount and type of physical activity as predictors of growth in executive functions, attentional control, and social self-control across 4 years of elementary school - PubMed

This paper used a nationally representative sample of children from the United States to examine the extent to which physical activity and sports participation may promote growth in children's executive functions (EFs), attention, and social self-control over time. Using data from the ECLS-K:2011 (N …

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"Some conservatives have recognized the huge benefits of progressive classroom practices, but they only want them for their own children" - or for those who can afford them. (The riffraff are forced to make do with direct instruction and worksheets.) Interesting blog post by an historian: https://is.gd/8KSyd2

A couple of years ago I started sending out a beginning-of-semester (or pre-semester) survey to my classes—optional, anonymous, and short—to see how they're doing and identify things I might try to address in the larger group. Although it's optional, most students seem to do it and appreciate me checking in.

#teaching