Academic Journals
Female Role Models: Protecting Women’s Math Test Performance
Abstract: Recent theory and research suggest that certain situational factors can harm women’s math test performance. The three studies presented here indicate that female role models can buffer women’s math test performance from the debilitating effects of these...
Getting Under the Hood: How and for Whom Does Increasing Course Structure Work?
Abstract: At the college level, the effectiveness of active-learning interventions is typically measured at the broadest scales: the achievement or retention of all students in a course. Coarse-grained measures like these cannot inform instructors about an...
Culturally Relevant Pedagogy 2.0: a.k.a. the Remix
Abstract: In this article, Ladson-Billings reflects on the history of her theory of culturally relevant pedagogy and the ways it has been used and misused since its inception. She argues for the importance of dynamic scholarship and suggests that it is time for a...
When Pedagogy Is Painful: Teaching in Tumultuous Times
Abstract: What happens when the outside world begins to affect the classroom? Is the classroom supposed to be neutral, objective, and devoid of feelings? Or is it a space where students and teacher meet for healing, understanding, and critical thinking? From news...
Teaching Anthropology through Performance
The paramount purpose of an undergraduate anthropology course is to help students become aware of, and challenge, their ethnocentric assumptions about others. Ethnographic study has been our major tool for accomplishing this, a method that aims to draw students "into...
Co-creation in learning and teaching: the case for a whole-class approach in higher education
Abstract: There is a wide range of activity in the higher education sector labelled ‘students as partners’ and ‘co-creation in learning and teaching’. Several frameworks have been proposed to map and categorise existing partnership and co-creation roles, activities,...
A Canvas of Desire: The Racialized and Sexualized Professor in the Classroom
In the spring of 2003, I taught a course on lesbian and gay social formation in the United States from World War II to the present. As a recently hired assistant professor, since the course was newly developed in specific response to student interest I had high hopes...
The Three A’s of Inclusion: Awareness, Authenticity, and Accountability
A diverse and inclusive culture creates the conditions for people to be their best selves. It unlocks potential and possibilities. And it differentiates an organization. The process of cultivating inclusion can help create a competitive advantage for your...
Understanding Students’ Experiences of Well-Being in Learning Environments
Abstract: With the recent release of a new international charter on health promoting universities and institutions of higher education, universities and colleges are increasingly interested in providing learning experiences that enhance and support student well-being....
A Teaching Intervention that Increases Underserved College Students’ Success
Abstract: Our study identifies transparent teaching about problem-centered learning as an easily replicable teaching intervention that produces learning benefits already linked with students’ success. Providing greater transparency about academic work on two...