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- Contributor(s)
- Janice Miller-Young; Jennifer Boman
- Date issued
- 2017
- Description
- This special issue demonstrates how “Decoding the Disciplines” not only provides a framework for inquiry into teaching and learning disciplinary concepts, but also holds much potential for bridging disciplinary thinking and teaching practice across disciplines, and serving as a tool for both teaching and curriculum development. In Chapter 1, together with our Faculty Learning Community (FLC) co-authors, we describe the “Decoding the Disciplines” FLC at Mount Royal University, including how it started as a faculty development initiative, and how it developed into various teaching, curriculum, and research projects which are presented in detail in subsequent chapters. We hope that others...
- Type
- book
- Appears in collection(s)
- Centres & Institutes
- Contributor(s)
- Amarnath Amarasingam; Andrew R. Basso; Kristin Burnett; Lori Chambers; Laura Beth Cohen; Travis Hay; Steven Leonard Jacobs; Lorraine Markotic; Sarah Minslow; Donia Mounsef; Adam Muller; Christopher Powell; Raffi Sarkissian; Scott W. Murray
- Date issued
- 2017
- Description
- Understanding Atrocities is a wide-ranging collection of essays bridging scholarly and community-based efforts to understand and respond to the global, transhistorical problem of genocide. The essays in this volume investigate how evolving, contemporary views on mass atrocity frame and complicate the possibilities for the understanding and prevention of genocide. The contributors ask, among other things, what are the limits of the law, of history, of literature, and of education in understanding and representing genocidal violence? What are the challenges we face in teaching and learning about extreme events such as these, and how does the language we use contribute to or impair what can...
- Type
- book
- Appears in collection(s)
- Arts