This open access book offers pioneering insights and practical methods for promoting diversity and inclusion in higher education classrooms and curricula. It highlights the growing importance of international education programs in Asia and the value of understanding student diversity in a changing, evermore interconnected world. The book explores diversity across physical, psychological and cogitative traits, socio-economic backgrounds, value systems, traditions and emerging identities, as well as diverse expectations around teaching, grading, and assessment. Chapters detail significant trends in active learning pedagogy, writing programs, language acquisition, and implications for teaching in the liberal arts, adult learners, girls and women, and Confucian heritage communities. A quality, relevant, 21st Century education should address multifaceted and intersecting forms of diversity to equip students for deep life-long learning inside and outside the classroom. This timely volumeprovides a unique toolkit for educators, policy-makers, and professional development experts.
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This open access book offers pioneering insights and practical methods for promoting diversity and inclusion in higher education classrooms and curricula.
Diversity, Inclusion, and context in Asian Higher Education.- Part I: Pedagogy for Inclusion.- Inclusive Pedagogy and Universal Design Approaches for Diverse Learning Environments.- Beyond Fairness and Consistency in Grading: The Role of Rubrics in Higher Education.- Educating Adult Learners: Bridging Learners' Characteristics and the Learning Sciences.- Culture and Learning: Confucian Heritage Learners, Social-Oriented Achievement, and Innovative Pedagogies.- PART II: LIBERAL ARTS CURRICULA IN ASIA THROUGH THE DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION LENS.- Diversifying the Liberal Arts Curriculum in an Asian Context.- Service Learning as a Means to Understand Socio-Economic Privilege, Inequality, and Social Mobility.- Building a Centre for Writing and Communication: Multilingual Writing Across the Curriculum in India.- PART III: SUPPORTING HISTORICALLY MARGINALIZED POPULATIONS.- Gender & Sexual Diversity in Asian Universities.- Higher Education for Women in Asia.- PART IV: LEADERSHIP FOR INCLUSION.- Conclusion: Strategic Leadership for Diversity and Inclusion in Higher Education.
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This open access book offers pioneering insights and practical methods for promoting diversity and inclusion in higher education classrooms and curricula. It highlights the growing importance of international education programs in Asia and the value of understanding student diversity in a changing, evermore interconnected world. The book explores diversity across physical, psychological and cogitative traits, socio-economic backgrounds, value systems, traditions and emerging identities, as well as diverse expectations around teaching, grading, and assessment. Chapters detail significant trends in active learning pedagogy, writing programs, language acquisition, and implications for teaching in the liberal arts, adult learners, girls and women, and Confucian heritage communities. A quality, relevant, 21st Century education should address multifaceted and intersecting forms of diversity to equip students for deep life-long learning inside and outside the classroom. This timely volumeprovides a unique toolkit for educators, policy-makers, and professional development experts.
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Explores the growing importance of international liberal arts education programs Highlights the relevance of understanding student diversity to achieve deep learning in a changing educational context Provides a unique toolkit for educators and professional development experts
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9789811516306
Publisert
2020-09-18
Utgiver
Vendor
Springer Verlag, Singapore
Høyde
210 mm
Bredde
148 mm
Aldersnivå
Research, P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet

Biographical note

Catherine Shea Sanger is Lecturer in Global Affairs, and directs the Centre for Teaching and Learning at Yale-NUS College in Singapore. Her work operates at the intersection of liberal arts education, student life, and faculty pedagogy development. Dr Sanger develops faculty and institutional capacity for inclusive teaching strategies in diverse educational communities. She holds a PhD in International Affairs from the University of Virginia.

 

Nancy W. Gleason is inaugural director of the Hilary Ballon Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning at NYU-Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates. Previously, she directed the Centre for Teaching and Learning at Yale-NUS College in Singapore. Her research has focused on climate change policy and the Fourth Industrial Revolution’s implications for higher education and the future of work. She is the editor of Higher Education in the Era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).