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Koppell, Carla – New England Journal of Higher Education, 2019
Academic leaders across the country--including several New England institutions--are now strategizing how to ensure students learn to navigate and manage diversity to spur progress. Diversity has always been a feature of the global landscape. Communities include women and men as well as people of different ages, ability statuses, socioeconomic…
Descriptors: Global Education, Diversity, Inclusion, Immigration
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Reid, Robin Elizabeth – Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 2019
Changing demographics at post-secondary institutions in Canada provide opportunities for intercultural learning. Curricular design that engages domestic and international students can result in new ways of knowing, seeing, and understanding multiple perspectives of and connections to place. This paper draws on students' reflections to highlight…
Descriptors: Place Based Education, Tourism, Foreign Countries, Multicultural Education
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White, Stephen R. – Journal of Education and Learning, 2016
The assertion here is that Theodore Brameld's Social Reconstructionist thought can provide us in American higher education the philosophical foundation for a relevant 21st century curriculum global studies agenda. It is a curriculum that merges self-awareness with global societal evolution. Through the interjection of Brameldian social…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, Global Education, Educational Philosophy
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Fildes, Karen J.; Beck, Eleanor; Bur, Tatiana; Burns, Pippa; Chisholm, Laurie A.; Dillon, Carolyn T.; Kuit, Tracey A.; McMahon, Anne T.; Neale, Elizabeth P.; Paton-Walsh, Clare; Powell, Sophie; Skropeta, Danielle; Stefoska-Needham, Anita; Tomlin, Alison; Treweek, Teresa M.; Walton, Karen; Kennedy, Jade – Higher Education Research and Development, 2021
This article will describe an approach to curriculum reconciliation that aspires to be the first step towards recognising that Indigenous ways of knowing have equal value and status as the dominant institutional systems of knowledge. Specifically, curriculum reconciliation is considered in the context of building knowledge-based relationships…
Descriptors: Indigenous Knowledge, Relevance (Education), Science Education, Medical Education
Giovannini, Enrico; Huang, Ailin; Mir Roca, Montserrat; Balland, Pierre-Alexandre; Charveriat, Céline; Morlet, Andrew; Isaksson, Darja; Bria, Francesca; Dixson-Declève, Sandrine; Schwaag Serger, Sylvia; Hidalgo, César; Renda, Andrea; Dunlop, Kirsten; Martins, Francisca; Tataj, Daria – European Commission, 2021
This ESIR Focus Paper provides a 'deeper dive' into the role of European Universities in achieving systemic change in the post-pandemic economy and society. It builds on and complements ESIR's second Policy Brief, which offers guidance on how a 'protect-prepare-transform' approach in the post-pandemic Europe can ensure fast learning from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Universities, COVID-19
Ruder, Suzanne; Brown, Patrick J. P.; Stanford, Courtney – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2020
Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning (POGIL) is an active-learning pedagogy that emphasizes content mastery as well as the development of process skills like critical thinking and problem solving. Although published POGIL materials are available in several STEM disciplines, there are still a number of courses within a variety of disciplines…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Active Learning, Learning Activities, Critical Thinking
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Bennett, Cassandra; Bennett, Jeffrey L. – Journal of Instructional Pedagogies, 2022
Accountants interact with a multitude of stakeholders on a daily basis, from co-workers and supervisors to clients and members of governing organizations. Developing skills to navigate these interactions is crucial to their success. As Colleges and universities must develop ways to teach and assess these skills alongside the technical competencies…
Descriptors: Soft Skills, Educational Objectives, College Curriculum, Business Administration Education
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Barrett, Ashley K.; Murphy, Melissa – Communication Teacher, 2019
Courses: Organizational Communication, Small Group Communication, Organizational Decision-making, and Communication Technology. Objective: The objectives of this activity are twofold: (1) to engage students in the practice of small-group decision making bounded by temporal, situational, and cognitive constraints; and (2) to demonstrate how these…
Descriptors: Work Environment, Participative Decision Making, Logical Thinking, Group Activities
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Haberberger, Clara – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2018
Critical literature on liberal education since the 1990s discerns two main trends which pose a serious threat to liberal education in the contemporary world. These are, firstly, the trend of liberal arts colleges offering a more professional curriculum and, secondly, the trend among universities and colleges in general to promote values which used…
Descriptors: Liberal Arts, Educational Philosophy, Educational Trends, Trend Analysis
Universities UK, 2023
Are some graduates going on to do non-graduate jobs? Evidence collected from interviews with universities careers services shows many have in fact seen an improvement in graduate employment -- specifically, in more graduates entering 'high skilled professions' and unemployment rates going down. Many universities have implemented a mandatory work…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, College Graduates, Employment Services
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Ruyter, Mia – International Journal of Art & Design Education, 2021
With no possibility of teaching in prisons in person because of the pandemic, a group of social justice concerned art history graduate students offered a remote learning college course for people incarcerated in a detention facility in the United States. The culturally sustaining and trauma-sensitive course, delivered asynchronously via tablets,…
Descriptors: Art History, College Curriculum, Correctional Education, Institutionalized Persons
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Butrus, Salwan; Greenman, Kevin; Khera, Eshita; Kopyeva, Irina; Nishii, Akira – Chemical Engineering Education, 2020
The interdisciplinary roots of chemical engineering have shaped its history and fostered its rapidly evolving nature. Through ongoing research, graduate students in chemical engineering departments remain abreast of the field's evolution. Yet core undergraduate curricula often fall short of introducing students to the breadth of current research…
Descriptors: Chemical Engineering, Student Research, Research Skills, Lecture Method
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Pittich, Daniel; Tenberg, Ralf; Lensing, Karsten – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2020
The article discusses the challenges and the potential approaches of competence-based programmes for higher education institutions, starting at their inception in the Bologna process. It focuses particularly on curriculum transformation and implementation of action-orientated learning concepts. Consequently, the article takes stock of recent…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Higher Education, Engineering Education, Curriculum Development
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Alvarez, Steven – Composition Studies, 2017
This article describes a brief moment when the University of Kentucky (UK) became the national focus of conversations around food literacies for a writing class about tacos in the U.S. South. Author Steven Alvarez explains to "Munchies" writer Javier Cabral that taco literacy goes beyond an appreciation of tacos. Alvarez describes his…
Descriptors: Advocacy, Food, Writing Instruction, Literacy
Peden, Wilson; Reed, Sally; Wolfe, Kathy – Association of American Colleges and Universities, 2017
"Rising to the LEAP Challenge" provides a series of case studies that reflect the "real-world" application of students' cumulative learning through signature work projects, as put forth in AAC&U's [Association of American Colleges and Universities'] The LEAP Challenge. Such projects focus on complex questions that are…
Descriptors: Case Studies, College Students, Colleges, Student Projects
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