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Sarah Banting; Madeline Scarlett – Arts and Humanities in Higher Education: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, 2024
This paper proposes that a curricular shift we call "decanonization" is shaping contemporary English Major degrees at Canadian universities. We believe it is a response to a complex set of challenges currently facing departments as they program their undergraduate degrees in English, and, in a qualified way, we endorse it as a positive…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English, Majors (Students), Undergraduate Study
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Naomi Farber – Academic Questions, 2023
Lodging social work education within institutions of higher learning in the early twentieth century led to predictable tensions between academic and professional norms, expectations, and purposes partly because of the conflicts inherent in being an explicitly value-based profession with longstanding aspirations to be scientific. Social work…
Descriptors: Social Work, Caseworkers, Citizenship, Imagination
Walsh, Kate; Drake, Graham; Holston, Shannon – National Council on Teacher Quality, 2022
Improving instruction in elementary mathematics is critical to supporting better academic and life outcomes for our students. While weak elementary math instruction is not a new challenge, the COVID-19 pandemic appears to have exacerbated the issue. Many states have reported that students have lost more learning in math than in reading over the…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Elementary School Mathematics, Teacher Education Programs, Time