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James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal, 2024
The surest measure of a successful college or university is the academic success of its students. True academic success requires incoming students to be academically prepared for college rigor, and is demonstrated by the availability of high-quality academic programs and evidence of personal and professional growth in the years after students'…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Accountability, Higher Education, Course Descriptions
Jessica Wegener; Liesel Carlsson; Liza Barbour; Tracy Everitt; Clare Pettinger; Alba Reguant-Closa; Nanna Meyer; Sean Svette; Dareen Hassan; Jillian Platnar – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2025
Purpose: Despite a growing awareness of the gap between professional expectations and competence, there has been no comprehensive appraisal of sustainable food systems (SFS) education within dietetics and nutrition programs to date. Dietitians and nutritionists play important roles in promoting sustainability yet many perceive themselves to be…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Dietetics, Nutrition Instruction, Sustainable Development
Fiona Blaikie; Karen Maras – International Journal of Art & Design Education, 2024
We compare epistemologies and aesthetics in the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme and the Australian New South Wales Stage 6 Visual Arts Syllabus, focusing on curriculum content, pedagogical praxis, and assessment strategies. Both curricula feature making, reflexivity, and critique. International Baccalaureate components are…
Descriptors: Visual Arts, Advanced Placement Programs, Foreign Countries, Epistemology
Tina Nguyen Duong – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This single embedded case study utilized a content analysis of syllabi and other documents, along with interviews and observations, of two California teacher education programs to explore how social justice-oriented and transformative practices were conceptualized. The courses - topics, text, assignments, and instructional practices - were…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Educational Change, Teacher Education Programs, Program Effectiveness
Gómez, Jennifer M. – Teaching of Psychology, 2023
Introduction: The scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) should promote diversity, equity, inclusion, and social justice for the next generation of psychologists. Statement of the Problem: I worry that the SoTL propagates an exclusionary field that becomes increasingly irrelevant in our diverse society given that graduate curricula largely…
Descriptors: Diversity, Interdisciplinary Approach, Psychology, Graduate Students
Simon Choat; Christina Wolf; Siobhan O'Neill – Studies in Higher Education, 2024
This article explores initiatives to decolonise the curriculum via two specific disciplines, namely Economics and Politics, both of which have tended to marginalise the study of race, empire, and colonialism and whose canonical thinkers are overwhelming white. By providing the first comparative analysis of decolonising initiatives in these…
Descriptors: Universities, Decolonization, Economics Education, Political Science
Nketekete, Malefetsane E. – International Journal of Educational Reform, 2023
This study was undertaken to assess the extent of changes brought by the Lesotho General Certificate of Secondary Education (LGCSE). The LGCSE replaced the British General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCE O level). The new system was hailed as modern and progressive, recognizing wider ability performance. The study employed a comparative…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Accounting, Course Descriptions, Secondary School Curriculum
Awaah, Fred; Okebukola, Peter; Shabani, Juma; Arkorful, Helen – Cogent Education, 2023
Studies on reasons accounting for the difficulties in learning public administration is relatively new in the public administration literature though many findings exist regarding students' difficulties in the study of different subject areas. This paper examines whether the perceived reasons in other subjects are real in the study of public…
Descriptors: Public Administration, Undergraduate Students, Course Descriptions, Concept Formation
Aslihan Osmanoglu; Dilek Girit-Yildiz – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2024
In this qualitative study, we examined how prospective mathematics teachers' instructional visions align with their instructional practices through an approximation of practice opportunity. Namely, we employed scripting tasks to understand how prospective teachers complete a scripting task and respond to students' misconceptions, and we compared…
Descriptors: Statistics, Mathematics Instruction, Misconceptions, Preservice Teachers
Taylor, Melissa A.; Loder, Danielle M.; Herr, Michael J.; Nichols, Richard A. – Anatomical Sciences Education, 2023
Many medical schools have undergone curricular reform recently. With these reforms, time spent teaching anatomy has been reduced, and there has been a general shift to a pass/fail grading system. At Indiana University School of Medicine (IUSM), a new curriculum was implemented in fall 2016. The year-long human gross anatomy course taught in 2015…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Anatomy, Medical Students, Medical Education
Patrice Milewski; Annmarie Valdes – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2024
Originally founded in 1861 as the Teachers' Association of Canada West (TACW), the Ontario Educational Association (OEA) was a fixture on the education scene in Ontario for one hundred twenty-five years until its dissolution on November 28, 1985. This article traces the early development and maturation of the OEA to focus on its involvement in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Teacher Associations, Educational History
Laneshia Conner; V. Nikki Jones; Jason P. Johnston – Journal on Empowering Teaching Excellence, 2023
Transformative participatory approaches in education are positioned to challenge traditional models where instructors bear all responsibility for knowledge creation and learners are passive recipients of knowledge. The promotion of participatory learning and critical pedagogy is essential to helping professionals seeking to understand oppressive…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Social Work, Transformative Learning, Course Descriptions
Su-Ming Khoo – Journal of Social Science Education, 2024
Purpose: This article responds to the topic of 'postcolonial social science education' by exploring strategies for decolonizing the social science 'archive'. Design/methodology/approach: The paper takes a decolonial-critical social science approach to explore the limit and test cases for decolonizing social science education, using two examples: a…
Descriptors: Social Sciences, Decolonization, Educational Strategies, Teaching Methods
Paul Hanstedt – American Association of Colleges and Universities, 2024
Supplying an insightful introduction to current trends in general education reform, this second edition of "General Education Essentials: A Guide for College Faculty" gives an important, timely overview of general education curricular design. General education curricula provide students with the intellectual flexibility they need to…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teaching Guides, Curriculum Design, General Education
Poza-Vilches, Fátima; García-González, Esther; Solís-Espallargas, Carmen; Velasco-Martínez, Leticia C.; López-Alcarria, Abigail; Estrada-Vidal, Ligia Isabel; Jiménez-Fontana, Rocío; Rodríguez-Marín, Fátima; Puig-Gutiérrez, María; Tójar Hurtado, Juan Carlos; Gutiérrez-Pérez, José – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2022
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to analyse the presence of the sustainable development goals (SDGs) proposed by the UN (2015) in university degrees within the fields of education, humanities and environmental sciences (ES) at Andalusian public institutions (Spain). Design/methodology/approach: This paper shows an empirical analysis from a…
Descriptors: Conservation (Environment), State Universities, Course Descriptions, Sustainability