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AERA Announces Winners of 2023 Excellence in Education Research Awards

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Banks, Kerry and Linda Killinger Endowed Chair in Diversity Studies Emeritus at the University of Washington, for the Distinguished Contributions to Research in Education Award; Dr. “Their contributions to education research, across all career stages and fields, have made and continue to make a difference in the lives of students and educators.”

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Legends Henry and Shirley Frye Honored with Renaming of A&T Building

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The Justice Henry E. Frye Archival Collection represents more than five decades of materials documenting the couple’s legacy in civil rights, social justice, and civic engagement. Supreme Court, in 1983, and chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court, in 1999, before retiring in 2001. and Shirley T.

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When a Lesson on Diversity Goes Wrong

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In the process of re-training (re-educating), educators must know how to critique curriculum, lesson plans, and course materials using the works of James Banks and my Bloom-Banks Matrix. This lesson plan with the toddlers under discussion can be placed at Banks’ additive level/approach.

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The Resilient Voice of Justice: The Role of the Black Church in Response to the Affirmative Action Ruling

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Through turbulent decades marked by civil rights battles and social justice movements, the Black Church has consistently championed the cause of justice, equality, and equity. In the ongoing struggle for racial equality, the Black Church has long been an unwavering pillar of strength and advocacy.

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Anti-Racist Teachers: Disrupting Resegregation [Overrepresentation] in Special Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Replace tolerance with acceptance; (2) A social justice ideology. A detailed description of social justice appears here ; (3) Appreciate and respect diversity. Banks - The father of multicultural education: In these troubling anti-EDI times. Social Justice Research, 28, 318-338. Prufrock Press.

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Fun and games – nurturing students’ ‘being’

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In our changing world, with elevated awareness of issues such as climate change, sustainability, social justice and EDI, this tendency towards the personal skills should come as no surprise. This is because the skills required to address such issues are often human-centred. We must ask ourselves how do we nurture student ‘ being ’?

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HBCU Medical Schools Growing in Number

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Together, she said, they set out to do “more of what CDU does well, training diverse physician leaders who understand social justice and are experts at serving under-resourced communities, the things that affect health, but that many medical schools don’t teach. At CDU it’s embedded in the curriculum,” said Prothrow-Stith.

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