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Challenging Anti-Black Racism in HBSE: Using Critical Race Theory to Interrogate Traditional Developmental Paradigms
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Zuckerman, Ronni; Jenkins, Melissa; Albritton, Travis; Taylor, Evi; Lippold, Melissa – Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 2022
How do we challenge anti-Black racism within the social work curriculum? As a requirement of all BSW and MSW programs, Human Behavior and the Social Environment (HBSE) coursework provides students with foundational knowledge about human development that is essential to theory-driven social work practice. Traditionally, conceptions of human…
Descriptors: Racism, African Americans, Social Work, Higher Education
Developing Life-Long Learners through Personal Growth Projects
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Boyd, Barry; Williams, Jennifer – Journal of Leadership Education, 2010
Leaders must become life-long learners if they are to remain effective in an environment that is both global and changing at an exponential pace. As Day (1992) noted, personal growth is essential in the leadership development process. In a personal leadership development course, students are required to complete a personal growth project in order…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Individual Development, Assignments, Student Projects
Sequencing Then and Now.
Haisty, Donna – Writing Instructor, 1984
Discusses the sequencing of writing assignments based on students' natural development. Cites the work of Piaget and Moffett. (FL)
Descriptors: Assignments, Cognitive Processes, Developmental Stages, Educational Philosophy
First Person Singular, First Person Plural, and Exposition.
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Brick, Allan – College English, 1981
Argues in favor of teaching thesis and the forms of exposition by means of assignments such as personal narrative, autobiography, and observation out of direct experience. Describes one such assignment. (RL)
Descriptors: Assignments, Classroom Techniques, Expository Writing, Higher Education
Online Communication--Building Learning Communities.
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Justice, Madeline C.; Espinoza, Sue – 1999
Children in today's society must function in many environments. The home, family, school, neighborhood, peers, and society generally shape our children for the future. Teachers, partners of this cyclical challenge, have to be prepared to help students meet the challenges of the world 2000. Teachers can learn to meet this goal by creating learning…
Descriptors: Assignments, Community Development, Computer Mediated Communication, Educational Environment
Poetry and the Self: A Brief Autobiographical Overview of Some Successes and Some Flops Using "Poetry Therapy" Techniques in Conventional and Experimental Classes, with Implications for English Teachers Anywhere.
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Weinstock, Donald J. – 1977
A personal account of an English instructor's experiences with poetry therapy--the use of poetry to help people get in touch with, and begin dealing with, their problems and feelings--is provided in this paper. Among the topics dealt with are the following: the scope of poetry therapy, the instructor's early dissatisfactions with traditional…
Descriptors: Affective Objectives, Assignments, Course Descriptions, Course Organization
Teaching Externally: Lecturers' Viewpoints. Occasional Paper 6.
Roberts, David, Ed. – 1986
Perspectives of academic staff who have been involved in teaching externally are presented in three papers. In "Teaching Students Externally: The First Twelve Years," Frank Molloy examines three aspects of teaching by the external mode: preparing materials, making assignments, and providing educational experiences for students at the…
Descriptors: Assignments, College Faculty, College Students, Correspondence Study