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Literacy Education In The Post-Truth Era: The Pedagogical Potential Of Multiliteracies, Lana Parker, Kristy Smith
Literacy Education In The Post-Truth Era: The Pedagogical Potential Of Multiliteracies, Lana Parker, Kristy Smith
Education Publications
Current literacy curriculum often reflects an emphasis on traditions of print literacy. This focus is a concern in the post-truth era, as youth engage in diverse meaning-making practices that shape their habits as consumers and producers of information. This in-depth case study investigated the in-class and at-home online behaviors of high school students. We find that even when explicit learning about ‘research’ occurred in class, students are lacking sense-making strategies in their personal online engagements. We also find that curriculum relies on tradition with very little recognition of (multi)literacies as socially constructed and that teachers desire more professional development and …
Stem, Istem, And Steam: What Is Next?, Atiya Razi, George Zhou
Stem, Istem, And Steam: What Is Next?, Atiya Razi, George Zhou
Education Publications
The historical and political emergence of STEM has changed the educational paradigm. Researchers, educators, and frontline professionals consider STEM as their savior. However, the ambiguity surrounding STEM and its successors, Integrated STEM education, and STEAM has created confusion for educators and frontline workers about which framework and concept they have to adapt to support their nation in the global financial crisis. Unfortunately, limited research offers insight into the historical, political, and educational development of STEM, iSTEM, and STEAM. This literature review fills this gap by addressing the historical, political, and educational development and uncertainty surrounding STEM, iSTEM, and STEAM. Also, …
Teaching Through Mathematics Problems: Re-Designed For A Focus On Mathematics, Immaculate Kizito Namukasa, Elena Polotskaia
Teaching Through Mathematics Problems: Re-Designed For A Focus On Mathematics, Immaculate Kizito Namukasa, Elena Polotskaia
Education Publications
Recent research on problem solving explores its potential as a pedagogical practice. This emphasis rejuvenates the interest in problem solving as a learning activity. This paper presents the practice of using a selected problem together with its variants in a single lesson. The practice was implemented in middle school classroom settings with gifted students and with mixed ability students as well as in teacher education classrooms. Experiences from practice are used to illustrate that the use of a set of closely related problems is likely to make students more eager to share their solutions, to generate several solution strategies, and …
School Mathematics In The Era Of Globalization, Immaculate Kizito Namukasa
School Mathematics In The Era Of Globalization, Immaculate Kizito Namukasa
Education Publications
This essay reviews the principles motivating contemporary critical mathematics discourses. Drawing from varied critical discourses including ethnomathematics, critical theory, post-structural theory, and situated and ecological cognition, the essay examines the pragmatics of critiques to the privileged role of school mathematics in the era of globalization. Critiques of modern school curricula argue that globalization practices linking education to technological and economic development are increasing, and the curriculum is being redefined through discourses of privatization, national standards, and global competitiveness. Globalization has reinforced the utilitarian approach to school mathematics and the Western bias in the prevailing mathematics curricula, as well as helped …