Category: Higher Education
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Brief interview with Dr. Sara Beaudrie professor of Heritage Language Pedagogy, ASU
Brief interview with Dr. Sara Beaudrie professor of Heritage Language Pedagogy, ASU As some people reading this may know, heritage speakers/students have become increasingly discussed among both scholars and pedagogues alike. Heritage students are bilinguals who grew up in a context where their minority language coexists with English as the dominant language, e.g. Spanish and […]
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Mar 6: Participate in a Twitter Chat on Global Perspectives on the Fight for Higher Education
On March 6 from 2-4pm (EST), HASTAC and The Futures Initiative will continue this semester’s University Worth Fighting For events. In “Global Perspectives on the Fight for Higher Education,” we will share strategies across the globe and highlight the urgent need for abolition and decolonial education. The discussion will (re)focus our collective attention on how the university […]
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Announcing Structuring Equality: A Handbook for Student-Centered Learning and Teaching Practices
Written by The Graduate Center Learning Collective www.hastac.org/structuring-equality Arinn Amer, Zebulah Baldwin, Joshua Belknap, Erica Campbell, Cathy N. Davidson, Michael Druffel, Iris Finkel, Lisa Hirschfield, Nicky Hutchins, Kelly Lerash, Danica Savonick Edited by Hilarie Ashton. CUNY Undergraduate Student Editors: Sujoy Bhowmik, David Brandt, Cherishe Cumma, Cassandra Castelant, Yelena Dzhanova, Brenell Harrison, Hurriya Hassan Cover: Estefany […]
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16. Revisiting the Pedagogy Project and Re-imagining Revision
“Re-imagining Revision: The Digital Essay” In 2014, a group of HASTAC scholars collaboratively created The Pedagogy Project, a series of blog posts, which offer examples of digital or collaborative projects that instructors can implement into their courses. These projects vary in length and complexity, so instructors can browse by category to find ideas for single […]
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Marine biology, astronomy, and the interconnected of the two areas
Sky, Water, Earth is a joint project between the University of British Columbia, the Vancouver Space Centre, and the Vancouver Aquarium. The playlists touch on 4 themes, which are 1) Extreme Environments: Exploring marine and terrestrial extreme environments and their roles as analogues for space-based research and exploration; 2) Water: Maintaining a healthy water system […]
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HASTAC’s Potential – Intellectual Platform?
For the last decade, the constructs of society have been based around social involvement, communication and accessibility to information. The well known leaders and game changers have been large companies. These companies have effectively used technology to impact the ways in which people integrate themselves into an evolving society. Well know players have been Facebook, […]
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New Year, New Attempt at (Dissertation) Blogging
Happy first week of January, all! A lot has happened since I last wrote in May (oof). I took and passed my second (oral) exam, which was a big relief, and which means I’m officially a Ph.D candidate. I’d been both dreading it and excitedly awaiting it, and I’m happy to say it was much […]
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Editor’s Preface
The experience of editing this volume has taught me so much. As a doctoral candidate, I write constantly, and as an assistant editor for the journals Harlot and Kairos, as well as a freelance editor, I edit constantly, too. Much of my writing ends up being collaborative on a variety of levels, from actually working […]
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Bibliography of Important Essays
Here is a link to a recent bibliogrpahy of relevance to our course: “25 Essays Against Whitelash | Boston Review.” Accessed January 4, 2017. https://bostonreview.net/reading-lists/25-essays-against-whitelash.