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Practice And Refactoring Log: A Reflection Based Learning Strategy To Improve The Fluency Of Computing Students In Writing Computer Programs, Elizabeth Dancy, El Sayed Mahmoud

Faculty Publications and Scholarship

The relationship between reflection and learning is evident. Reflection plays a significant role in learning by encouraging insight and complex learning. However, most students consider their work experiences at school as isolated and unrelated events. This work aims to investigate how to improve the students’ fluency in writing computer programs through reflection. A new deliverable, the Practice and Refactoring Log (“PAR Log”), is requested for each assignment in order to engage students in the process of making meaning from their experiences when completing their assignments. The PAR Log shows and justifies all changes through the assignment development cycle. Two student …

Dialogic Pedagogy And Educating Preservice Teachers For Critical Multiculturalism, Nermine Abd Elkader

Faculty Publications and Scholarship

The study investigates the potentials of educating preservice teachers for critical multiculturalism through dialogic pedagogy. The study findings suggest that dialogic pedagogy experienced some successes in encouraging preservice teachers to revise their worldview about certain topics in the multicultural curriculum about which they were not initially open to dialogue. The study should contribute to the literature of dialogic pedagogy and multicultural education in terms of suggesting more democratic educational approaches toward teaching the controversial topics of the multicultural curriculum.

The Power Of Creative Space In Engineering Education, Jeff Zabudsky, Farzad Rayegani, Yael Katz

Faculty Publications and Scholarship

In order to graduate globally capable engineers who are not only technically savvy, but socially competent and business smart, Sheridan’s School of Engineering has found both a process and a ‘place’ to meet these goals and align with their vision to create curricula that inspire innovation and creativity. The process: the CDIO methodology that helps graduate “ready to work” engineers. The place: Sheridan’s Centre for Advanced Manufacturing and Design Technologies (CAMDT).

In the fall of 2013 Sheridan unveiled its new visual identity with a tag line that challenges people to "get creative." It's a bold and courageous statement that reflects …

Dialogic Multicultural Education Theory And Praxis: Dialogue And The Problems Of Multicultural Education In A Pluralistic Society, Nermine Abd Elkader

Faculty Publications and Scholarship

The purpose of this theoretical article is to highlight the role that dialogic pedagogy can play in critical multicultural education for pre-service teachers. The article starts by discussing the problematic that critical multicultural education poses in a democratic society that claims freedom of speech and freedom of expression as a basic tenet of democracy. Through investigating research findings in the field of critical multicultural education in higher education, the author argues that many of the educational approaches-including the ones that claim dialogue to be their main instructional tool- could be described as undemocratic, and thus have done more harm than …

Stumbling Upon A Community Of Practice: Moving To Blended Delivery In A Community College Developmental Writing Course: The Case Of Communication Foundations At Sheridan College, Chrisoula Benak, Stephanie Samboo, Katye Seip, Sarah Sinclair

Faculty Publications and Scholarship

Jan Parker (2013) has recently imagined a form of SoTL inquiry which takes “the classroom as the place for the development of knowledge- and meaning-making, the site and focus of ‘teaching-led research’”(p. 23). Taking this call to action to heart, this presentation focuses on how a group of writing teachers in a community college, tasked with converting a traditional developmental writing course into a blended learning delivery model, stumbled into becoming a reflective community of practice focused on how blended learning tools affect student learning. Stating with a belief that good curriculum design should involve students, not just as “pilot” …

Towards A New Paradigm In Architectural Education, Ken Snell

Faculty Publications and Scholarship

In anticipation of the arrival of a new creative economy there is much interest, debate and research in the study of creativity, creative learning and teaching, the nature of creative genius, creative play, imagination and invention and in educational policy making. If David Boud is correct in his opinion that “assessment methods and requirements probably have a greater influence on how and what students learn than any other single factor (Boud 1988) then the development of the techniques, tools and methods for the assessment of creativity must be developed and tailored to suit the many disciplines of study that …