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Sandretto, Susan; Tilson, Jane – Teaching and Learning Research Initiative, 2013
Educators can think of changes in the international literacy landscape as a powerful wave. In this report, the authors argue that given the changes affecting classrooms through information and communications technology, and increasing student diversity not only do they want to prepare for the wave, but they wish to harness its power. This…
Descriptors: Multiple Literacies, Foreign Countries, Student Diversity, Influence of Technology
Stein, Pippa – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2012
Multimodal Pedagogies in Diverse Classrooms examines how the classroom can become a democratic space founded on the integration of different histories, modes of representation, feelings, languages and discourses, and is essential reading for anyone interested in the connection between multimodality, pedagogy, democracy and social justice in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cultural Pluralism, Social Justice, Student Diversity
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Sternberg, Robert J. – College and University, 2006
Is it possible simultaneously to enhance the academic quality of the student body and to increase its diversity? Assessments of creative and practical skills were given to college freshmen at thirteen varied institutions to supplement the SAT. Prediction of freshman-year GPA roughly doubled, and ethnic-group differences were substantially…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Grade Point Average, Success, Academic Achievement