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