This scholarly personal narrative offers insight into the everyday lived experience of a white international student from Germany living and studying in the United States. In this narrative, she explores her life between discrimination in the form of anti-German sentiment and white privilege. The narrative focuses on discrimination from a systemic…

This chapter uses Kolb's (1984) theory of experiential learning to examine the learning process in two related contexts: A university-facilitated study tour for in-service English teachers from Norway and a short-term study-abroad program to Norway for US preservice teachers.

Inquiry-guided learning (IGL) has widespread appeal in higher education as a suite of teaching strategies that promotes learning through students' increasingly independent investigation of questions, problems, and issues using the methods of inquiry of the disciplines. Framed as especially appropriate for research universities, IGL has been…

Focused on comparative ethnic studies and intersectionality, the author commences with a discussion about Barack Obama's historic inauguration and the Asian American literature classroom. This essay argues that courses, programs, and departments focused on ethnicity, race, gender, class, and sexuality remain important precisely because they…

The investments of federal agencies in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education are aimed at a single core question: How can educators ensure that the United States will have a well-prepared and innovative science and technology workforce in an era of increasing global competition? As the exploration of what this entails…

Undergraduate education in the STEM fields (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) needs improvement, a conclusion that multiple national reports over the past two decades have reached. Critiques of STEM education may emphasize different aspects of the STEM undergraduate education problem. Nevertheless, each delivers one clear and…

Higher education organizations, institutions, and academic units globally are grappling with the challenges of redesigning curricula and developing and adopting institutional, professional, and program-level learning outcomes. Implementing learning-centered curricula, however, cannot be considered simply as a series of unproblematic and discrete…