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Direct linkPace, Judith L. – Learning Professional, 2022
Dealing with controversial issues is one of the most important tasks teachers perform. In this article, the author presents a few core concepts and research findings that are essential for understanding what teaching controversial issues is all about and why it is so important to develop capability in this methodology.
Descriptors: Controversial Issues (Course Content), Teaching Methods, Faculty Development, Course Content
An, Sohyun – Multicultural Perspectives, 2022
What should U.S. schools teach about U.S. actions abroad when students in the classroom have varied or conflicting memories, ideas, and experiences? Should schools teach the dominant narrative of U.S. benevolence and innocence in world affairs so as to instill patriotism in children? What kind of patriotism are we concerned with here? Or should…
Descriptors: Asian American Students, Elementary School Students, United States History, Educational Practices
Eizadirad, Ardavan; Campbell, Andrew – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2021
This article reflects experiences of two racialized professors from a Critical Race Theory (CRT) paradigm teaching in Canadian teacher preparation and educational leadership programs across multiple universities. The analysis of their lived experiences as counter-stories through storytelling focuses on how their identities, bodies, course content,…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Race, College Faculty, Teacher Education Programs
Bowen, Elizabeth A. – Journal of Social Work Education, 2013
This article reviews themes and changes in the teaching of HIV/AIDS content in social work programs over the first three decades of the epidemic. Social work education in the first decade of the epidemic was largely focused on helping clients in the death and dying process, while medical and pharmaceutical advancements in the mid-1990s drastically…
Descriptors: Social Work, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Herr, Scott W.; Telljohann, Susan K.; Price, James H.; Dake, Joseph A.; Stone, Gregory E. – Journal of School Health, 2012
Background: HIV/AIDS is one of the leading causes of illness and death in the United States with individuals between the ages of 13 and 19 years being especially vulnerable for infection. The purpose of this study was to examine the attitudes, perceptions, and instructional practices of high school health teachers toward teaching HIV prevention.…
Descriptors: Secondary School Teachers, Health Education, Comprehensive School Health Education, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS)
Download full textWalsh, Christine A.; Shier, Micheal L.; Sitter, Kathleen C.; Sieppert, Jackie D. – Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2010
Social work education accreditation requires the completion of course work specifically around issues related to oppression and diversity within society. Educators offer a range of approaches to engage students in discussion about oppression and diversity from academic content and structured curriculum to reflective practice and experiential…
Descriptors: Social Work, Graduate Students, Social Justice, Teaching Methods
Peer reviewedMoulder, Frances V. – Teaching Sociology, 1997
Summarizes the response to complaints that a class examining the sociology of minorities unfairly emphasized negative behavior. The course was restructured to include an examination of resistance and interracial cooperation against racism. This new perspective was incorporated into writing assignments, class discussions, and instructional…
Descriptors: Consciousness Raising, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Course Content, Educational Objectives
