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Lesley Batty; Katie Reilly – Journal of Biological Education, 2023
The increase in student diversity, legislative changes and shift towards the social model of disability has led to greater emphasis on inclusive curricula within Higher Education (HE). Whilst there are good examples for changes in assessment, delivery and student support, specific challenges faced by Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics…
Descriptors: Barriers, Student Participation, STEM Education, Science Laboratories
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Majewska, Ania A.; Stuart, Johnasha D.; Gray, Kelsey M.; Ryder, Pearl V.; Vereen, Ethell – Health Education, 2022
Purpose: A novel first-year experience course was developed using culturally responsive teaching strategies at an undergraduate liberal arts college in the southeastern USA to promote health advocacy and to provide students with an overview of male health. The course focuses on the biological, sociocultural, economic and gender influences that…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Males, Health Education, College Freshmen
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Jennie Winter; Oliver Webb; Rebecca Turner – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2024
Decolonisation is a socio-political movement which challenges Eurocentrism and post-colonial notions of power. This has numerous implications for higher education institutions (HEIs), where the content and delivery of curricula may be seen as products of colonial legacy. The decolonisation agenda has increasing support from students, the academy,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Decolonization, Colleges, Curriculum Evaluation
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Desiree Forsythe – Journal of Higher Education, 2024
There is a mountain of evidence demonstrating that students with marginalized, i.e. purposefully socially excluded, identities experience significantly worse academic and social outcomes in STEM disciplines. However, there has been less attention on how white women, who experience sexism due to their gender but are privileged due to their race,…
Descriptors: Whites, Females, STEM Education, Social Justice
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Tashiro, Jenna; Talanquer, Vicente – Journal of Chemical Education, 2021
Improvement in student performance from educational reforms has driven current calls for changes in curricular, instructional, and assessment practices in higher education. Less research has addressed the possibility of such reforms aiding in resolving the well-documented inequities in educational outcomes between sexes and races/ethnicities in…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Chemistry, Curriculum Development, Educational Change
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Samantha Nousak; Leanne Barry; Susan R. Fisk – Teaching Sociology, 2024
Statistical literacy is critical for all sociology students because it facilitates academic and professional success, high-paying jobs, and informed citizenship. Most students, however, lack adequate statistical literacy to engage with sociological research. Within that general deficit, there are gender, racial, and social-class differences, with…
Descriptors: Sociology, Statistics, Literacy, Social Science Research
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Apps, Kerry – Teaching History, 2021
Having been given some additional curriculum time, Kerry Apps and her department made decisions about what had been missing in the previous curriculum diet. Building on an existing enquiry (already published in "Teaching History 176"), Apps decided to focus on how and when the idea of race in its modern sense developed in early modern…
Descriptors: Race, Thinking Skills, Primary Sources, History Instruction
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Crutchley, Dwayne J. L. – Journal of Education, 2023
For decades, the achievement gap between low-income Black males and other groups is sufficiently documented and persists. This study calls for a new practical curriculum approach that provides the necessary conditions for how low-income Black males learn, stay engaged, and assist in building the capacity for positive self-efficacy. The…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Racial Differences, Gender Differences, African American Students
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Lee, Charles T. – Journal of Political Science Education, 2022
Using an autoethnographic approach, this article draws on my personal experience as an Asian Pacific American (APA) political theorist who has navigated between different institutional spaces to reflect on a phenomenon that I call "elastic racialization" of APAs in higher education and its implications on our pedagogic agenda and…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, College Faculty, Political Science, Higher Education
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Edelson, Daniel C.; Reiser, Brian J.; McNeill, Katherine L.; Mohan, Audrey; Novak, Michael; Mohan, Lindsey; Affolter, Renee; McGill, Tara A. W.; Buck Bracey, Zoë E.; Deutch Noll, Jamie; Kowalski, Susan M.; Novak, Dawn; Lo, Abraham S.; Landel, Carolyn; Krumm, Andrew; Penuel, William R.; Van Horne, Katie; González-Howard, María; Suárez, Enrique – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2021
OpenSciEd is an ambitious effort to implement the vision of the "Framework for K-12 Science Education" and the "Next Generation Science Standards" broadly across the United States. The premise of OpenSciEd is that high quality instructional materials can play a critical role in transforming science teaching and learning at a…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Evidence Based Practice, Instructional Materials, Educational Change
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Hughes, Micah S.; Popoola, Victor O. – Journal of Studies in International Education, 2023
This study explored the racial bias perceptions of study abroad alumni following international learning experiences in East Africa. Ninety-seven participants, who completed a semester-long study abroad between Fall 2016-Spring 2019, were recruited into the study. Open-ended survey questions evaluated perceptions of racial bias, racial prejudice,…
Descriptors: Racism, Study Abroad, Student Attitudes, Racial Identification
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Hamilton, Laura S.; Kaufman, Julia H. – Educational Assessment, 2022
The "twin pandemics" of racial injustice and COVID-19 have underscored the importance of promoting civic knowledge, skills, dispositions, and engagement among the nation's young people. Although some evidence has demonstrated that civic-learning opportunities are inequitably distributed across U.S. schools and communities, we currently…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Citizenship Education, Educational Quality, Educational Indicators
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Luckett, Kathy; Shay, Suellen – Critical Studies in Education, 2020
While acknowledging higher education's complicity in inequality, the premise of this paper is that curriculum transformation can be one means of challenging and dismantling structural injustices towards the goal of equity of access and outcomes. Fraser's multi-dimensional framework for social justice is drawn upon to explore what this…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Equal Education
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Wu, Mei-Jiun – NASSP Bulletin, 2022
By aligning factors that most commonly influence the achievement of Black and Hispanic students with the type of resources inside the black box of schooling, this study differentiated the achievement effect of school resources from what was brought by students to schools. The hierarchical regression results showed that minority students'…
Descriptors: African American Students, Hispanic American Students, Achievement Gap, Educational Resources
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Vlach, Saba Khan – Journal of Children's Literature, 2022
Transformative, anti-oppressive curricula, as theorized by Banks (1989, 2014) and Kumashiro (2001, 2009), directly address present-day realities of racism, discrimination, and oppression. According to Banks (1989), a transformative curriculum includes "the infusion of various perspectives, frames of reference, and content from various groups,…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Cultural Relevance, Reading Aloud to Others, Transformative Learning
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