Presentations

Each plenary speaker has provided an abstract of their intended presentation.

Carol Archer

Title: Stepping Beyond Diversity in the Classroom

This presentation will focus on specific strategies that can be used by professors with classrooms…

Mikyong Minsun Kim

Title:  Korean Education and Culture: Ways College Students Learn and Instructors Teach

Abstract:

The main objective of this presentation is to explain…

Mary Atwater

Title: Integrating Multicultural Education in the STEM Disciplines at the University Level

In this interactive presentation, I will briefly discuss…

Swathi Nath Thaker

Title: The Hindu Philosophy and its Views on Learning

As globalization continues in today’s society, and power shifts from the west to the east, we…

Juan Lira

Title: A look at Latinos in Higher Education through a Psychosociocultural Framework

Gloria and Rodriguez (2000) have developed a psychosociocultural…

Shakeer Abdullah

Title: Muslim Beliefs, Practices and Traditions and their Impact on Teaching and Learning. 

What are the principle teachings of Islam and how do they…

Qi Sun

Title: Transformative Learning in an International Context: A Confucian Perspective

This presentation will focus on transformative learning of…

Helen Fox

Title: Listening to the World 

My talk, "Listening to the World," would be about the ways that various world cultures express ideas, make arguments,…

Breakouts

Faculty led breakout sessions will be held on the topics listed below. It is our hope that synthesizing what they have learned in the various…

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