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Shusaku Endo's Silence tells the story of a Jesuit missionary sent to Japan during the height of its persecution of the nation's small population of Christians. The novel confronts readers with the four curriculum questions and...

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This project is a proposed syllabus of a college level history course dealing with queer and trans experiences in the 20th century. The course utilizes the Ursinus inquiry based approach to learning, focusing on the core...

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In the years following the passage of the historic No Child Left Behind (NCLB) legislation, South Carolina has dropped to having one of the lowest ranked public education systems in the United States. As many schools in South...

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There is hardly ever a platform provided in schools for students to express their concerns about society and how these issues personally affect them each day. Theatre can be that platform, if only educators consciously...

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This is the fourth in a series of occasional papers about the challenges confronting students and what Ursinus is doing to help them enter adult life.

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This lesson plan will teach high school students (11th-12th grade) what censorship is, why it is powerful, and what to do with it. Aligned with Pennsylvania State Standards, students will identify common themes between the two...

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My project utilizes the concept of Understanding by Design, as outlined by education experts Jay McTighe and Grant Wiggins, to craft a 12-week curriculum for high school junior and senior English students. McTighe and Wiggins...

Civics Democracy Education Understanding by Design Disenfranchisement High School Curriculum Arts and Humanities Curriculum and Instruction Curriculum and Social Inquiry English Language and Literature Secondary Education and Teaching Teacher Education and Professional Development

This is the sixth in a series of occasional papers about the challenges confronting students and what Ursinus is doing to help them enter adult life.

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In this comparative study, the discussion of multicultural education focused on these four research questions: "What is multicultural education?," "How are teaching preparation programs approaching multicultural education?,"...

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This is the second in a series of occasional papers about the challenges confronting students and what Ursinus is doing to help them enter adult life.

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Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov, has been this author's favorite book for the past twenty-five years. This Questimonial explores the Ursinus Quest core questions of "What should matter to me?" and "How should we live together?"...

Vladimir Nabokov Lolita Ursinus College Quest curriculum open questions Curriculum and Social Inquiry Higher Education

This is the third in a series of occasional papers about the challenges confronting students and what Ursinus is doing to help them enter adult life.

Higher Education liberal arts Ursinus College Essay student life academia pedagogy technology Curriculum and Instruction Curriculum and Social Inquiry Education Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research Educational Leadership Educational Methods Higher Education Higher Education Administration Liberal Studies Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Social and Philosophical Foundations of Education