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Publication Date: 2012-Jun
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Engaging Diversity in First-Year College Classrooms
Lee, Amy; Williams, Rhiannon; Kilaberia, Rusudan
Innovative Higher Education, v37 n3 p199-213 Jun 2012
The increasing calls for diversity research signal a need to explore strategies through which we attempt to interact with and respond to diversity intentionally in courses and curricula. This case study of a first-year inquiry course in a college of education fills a gap in the literature by documenting and analyzing instances of educators actively working with multiple dimensions of diversity in the classroom so as to support students' development of diversity-related competencies. The guiding research question for this study was to explore what curricular and/or pedagogical activities students in a first-year experience course identified as facilitating their engagement with diversity in an intentional, purposeful manner.
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, College Freshmen, Change Strategies, Educational Strategies, Learner Engagement, Competency Based Education, Interpersonal Competence, Intercultural Programs, Case Studies, Inquiry, Class Activities, Learning Activities, Best Practices, Educational Practices, Teaching Methods, Ethnic Diversity
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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