Author: Kevin Bonney The politicization of science is an important contemporary issue with local and global ramifications. In my Life Science course, I use climate change, evolution, and vaccines…
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Author: Bob Squillace Recent years have seen an alarming global rise in nativism as a political force. Nativism is, in essence, the politics of normalization – it seeks to privilege as…
Author: Lindsay Davies Since the earliest times, works of art have left a complex record of human arrogance towards the environment that, as educators, we have a responsibility to…
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Author: Gabriela Dragnea Horvath, PhD After teaching philosophy and literature courses to American college juniors for more than a decade, starting to teach Cultural Foundations and Social Foundations to freshmen…
Author: Stefanie Goyette A group podcast project offers students an opportunity to combine new research with their learning from class discussion and previous assignments, to work with other students…
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Author: Alexander Nagel Creating a syllabus for a liberal arts course that delves into cultural foundations in an exciting, hands-on way was my goal for the Fall 2016 semester at…
Author: Bob Squillace In its list of high-impact educational practices, the American Association of Colleges and Universities lists “Collaborative Assignments and Projects,” explaining briefly that, Collaborative learning combines two key…
