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The Fight to Preserve—and Teach—African-American History

Edsurge

It is an emotional time because it is the culmination, at least for me, of many years of trying to bring attention to this through the realm of scholarship, [and] encouraging scholars to start having conversations,” said Cassandra Newby-Alexander, a history professor and dean of the college of liberal arts at Norfolk State University in Virginia.

History 137
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How Teacher Language Can Build a More Democratic Classroom

Cult of Pedagogy

Children must learn how to construct learning communities in which participants take each other’s ideas seriously, grow knowledge, and solve problems together so they are not dependent on the teacher to arrange such communities for them. An excellent discussion ensued. or “why do you think that?”

Languages 111
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With an Unusual Model and ‘Forbidden Courses,’ a New University Is Taking Shape in Texas

Edsurge

Along with all that attention, though, came plenty of criticism. So to develop what we commonly think of as critical thinking or critical capacities. And in order to do that, you have to have a maximalist approach to the exchange of ideas for human beings to learn, and to extend the realm of their knowledge.

Culture 168