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Students Lead The Charge! Using Project-Based Learning With Pre-Service Teachers To Redesign A Curriculum Resource Center, Kieran Ayton, Karen Caparo

Faculty Publications

Project-based learning (PBL) allows students to identify and find solutions to real-world

problems using inquiry-based learning. While increasingly used in the K-12 classroom, PBL has not had widespread adoption in higher education. With the exception of Correll and Bornstein (2018), very little has been written about using PBL to redesign college and university Curriculum Resource Centers. However, because PBL is primarily a K-12 teaching pedagogy, it is the perfect fit to give pre-service teachers the active learning skills they will need for their future K-12 classrooms. The skills developed through project-based learning teach pre-service teachers to become independent and resourceful …

Waking Yourself Up: The Liberatory Potential Of Critical University Studies, Mikaila Mariel Lemonik Arthur, Scott Leo Renshaw

Faculty Publications

This paper is designed as a conversation between Mikaila and Scott, one of the students who enrolled in the course the first time it was offered, in Spring 2014. Scott is now a graduate student in sociology. By developing a sustained, paper-length conversation about the course, we hope to provide a sense of the liberatory potential of critical university studies as a pedagogical practice.