by | Jul 1, 2021 | Academic Journals
Abstract: In social justice education, it is common to establish guidelines for classroom discussions. We examine the limits of these guidelines in achieving the goals of social justice education, arguing that they are not responsive to power relations. Rather than...
by | Jul 1, 2021 | Academic Journals
Abstract: This article presents a case study of a technology-enhanced face-to-face health sciences course in which the principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) were applied. Students were offered a variety of means of representation, engagement, and...
by | Jul 1, 2021 | Academic Journals
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...
by | Jul 1, 2021 | Academic Journals
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...
by | Jul 1, 2021 | Academic Journals
Biology is front page news, so it is important that we teach students to make connections between what they learn in the classroom and what they see in everyday life. As biology researchers, we recognize the negative implications of doing science in a vacuum as we are...
by | Jul 1, 2021 | Academic Journals
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...
