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Specialized Language and Jargonism within Higher Education and Academia: Further Consequences on Bilingualism and Multilingualism
By Mehrnaz Moghaddam During my first year of PhD program (cultural anthropology), I hardly understood any of the discussions in depth. In my case, it was not because English is not my native language (only to some extent) but largely because I was a newcomer to the field of social sciences and humanities from a…
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Incorporating Experiential Learning Practices into Classroom through Assignments
by Mehrnaz Moghaddam What is experiential learning? “In its simplest form, experiential learning (EL) means learning from experience or learning by doing. Experiential education first immerses learners in an experience and then encourages reflection about the experience to develop new skills, new attitudes, or new ways of thinking,” Lewis and Williams (1994). As…
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Teaching Philosophy
by Rosalía Reyes Simon When I am in front of my students in a course of Spanish, literature, oral or written communication, or Latin American civilization, I always keep in mind one of my main objectives as a professor: to make them feel that each one is contributing by bringing their own heritage to the…
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Community as Compliance vs. Community as Rebellion
by Angela Dunne In her book, Community as Rebellion: A Syllabus for Surviving Academia as a Woman of Color, Lorgia García Peña speaks of the need to open space inside of our classrooms and institutions of higher education for rebellion. García Peña writes about her own experiences of violence and exclusion as an Afro-Dominican woman…
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Amplifying Cultures Through the Continent
by Oriana Mejías Martínez I am a Fellow at the Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) program at LaGuardia Community College. I was attracted to this program because as a learner and instructor of languages I have always felt attracted to multilingual and multicultural environments. The experiences I have had in my work as Fellow at…
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New Impromptu
By: Greg Hartmann My first year as a Humanities Alliance fellow was filled with a lot of new experiences. Rosalía, Sok, and I (the three fellows working at Guttman Community College) helped develop programs ranging from a “study hacks” presentation to bilingual poetry workshops to the creation of an annual common read on campus designed…
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“Reimagining Professional Development of Critical Pedagogy and Humanizing Teaching & Learning in the Humanities;” Humanities Alliance Presents at the Comparative & International Education Society Conference.
Higher education is at a critical juncture, where the push for inclusivity, accessibility, and student-centered learning is reshaping academic spaces. In a recent panel discussion on February 20, 2022, in Washington DC at the CIES, Humanities Alliance members explored various aspects of this transformation—how care informs professional development, the contradictions within community-based graduate programs, the…
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