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Erin Keith; Carolyn Clarke; Allison Tucker – Canadian Journal of Action Research, 2024
Learning spaces in higher education are fraught with colonial barriers such as teacher-centered, front facing, stark, feelingless, and unwelcoming classrooms that diminish students' feelings of well-being. For pre-service teachers, these are also the types of classrooms that they often inherit as they foray into the profession. Three Bachelor of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Decolonization
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Jandciu, Eric; Stewart, Jaclyn J.; Stoodley, Robin; Birol, Gülnur; Han, Andrea; Fox, Joanne A. – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2015
The authors describe a model for embedding science communication into the science curriculum without displacing science content. They describe the rationale, development, design, and implementation of two courses taught by science faculty addressing these criteria. They also outline the evaluation plan for these courses, which emphasize broad…
Descriptors: Science Curriculum, Undergraduate Students, Integrated Curriculum, Communication Skills
Drake, Susan; Racknor, Wendy – Education Canada, 2011
The focus of Ontario's educational reform is literacy and numeracy, and there is a move to teach literacy in all subject areas. Teachers are also to include character education and environmental awareness in instructional planning. Curriculum guidelines direct teachers to teach cross-disciplinary core concepts--Big Ideas such as change, systems,…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Instructional Development, Curriculum Development, Literacy
Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education, 2012
This year's E-Learn conference has numerous exciting presentations and keynotes. Many speakers will be discussing how education is changing in the forthcoming years. Among them are Dale Stephens who works with the social movement "Uncollege" that empower students to create their own education, Saul Carliner who talks about Massive Online…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Foreign Countries, Electronic Learning, Conferences (Gatherings)
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Epstein, Marcia Jenneth – Current Issues in Education, 2004
Development of post-secondary curriculum in emerging interdisciplinary fields presents particular challenges in course design and resource utilization, especially when the field is interdisciplinary by nature of its inherent breadth. A new course at the University of Calgary, designed to introduce undergraduate students to the methods and…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Pilot Projects, Ecology, Teaching Methods