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Curtis, Jena Nicols – American Journal of Sexuality Education, 2008
Advances in HIV/AIDS treatment have dramatically changed the nature of HIV/AIDS education and prevention, creating new opportunities and challenges. This activity is designed to help participants reflect on the impact that HIV treatment can have on a person's life. It also enables trainers to engage participants in a dialogue about the impact of…
Descriptors: Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Health Education, Prevention
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Brookfield, Stephen – Teaching in Higher Education, 2007
Diversifying curriculum is often assumed to be an unequivocal good in higher education--a way of opening up an educational conversation to include the widest possible diversity of perspectives and intellectual traditions. This democratic attempt to be open and inclusive springs from a humanistic concern to have all student voices heard, all…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Curriculum Development, Cultural Pluralism, Democracy
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Connor, David J.; Bejoian, Lynne M. – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2006
With the overwhelming negative connotations of disability, how can people ever see disability as a natural part of human diversity, merely another bodily attribute, and one that people can frame in positive terms? In brief, how can people view disability as simply another way of being? In this article, the authors begin to address these questions…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Social Environment, Teaching Methods, Social Influences
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Sanders, Michael – Mid-Western Educational Researcher, 2004
My purpose for writing this commentary is to reflect on how one teacher attempted to utilize the philosophies and practices of Paolo Freire, Augusto Boal, and Myles Horton in a graduate level, educational foundations classroom. I take as my premise the view that pedagogical practice is political and that the processes of studying and changing…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Social Action, Teacher Student Relationship, Educational Philosophy