Learning Together in Multicultural Groups: A Curriculum Innovation

Approaches to Multicultural Curriculum Reform

Team-based learning: moving forward in curriculum innovation: a commentary.

Team-based learning (TBL) is an instructional strategy developed by Professor Larry Michaelsen at the University of Oklahoma’s Business School, USA, in the early 1990s. He developed it because his class enrollments were increasing, he questioned the effectiveness of lectures, and he wanted to use classroom time for students to solve the kinds of problems they would face in the business world. P...

Curriculum innovation in schools

This report focuses on curriculum innovation in schools and the factors that contribute to its success. The small scale survey that formed the basis of the report found that the innovations that most of the schools visited had made had improved pupils’ achievement and personal development. Successful change relied on strong leadership at all levels, a shared understanding of the reasons and nee...

Fighting Hunger Together: A Case of Women Farmers’ Participation in Women Groups in Mwala Division, Kenya

Food security remains a major challenge for most rural households in Kenya especially those in arid and semi arid areas. Women play a crucial role as primary food producers and custodians of household food security. They however face many constraints in their endeavor to secure food for their households. Women, lack access to extension education, land and credit and these challenges are exacerb...

A longitudinal study of multicultural curriculum in medical education

OBJECTIVE To evaluate impact a multicultural interclerkship had on students' perception of knowledge, interview skills, and empathy towards serving culturally diverse populations and role student demographics played in learning. METHODS Data extracted from students' self-reported course evaluations and pre/post questionnaires during multiculturalism interclerkship across 11 academic years. In...