Publish at October 23 2024 Updated October 23 2024
A critical look at the link between colonization and religion, with examples of cultural dispossession illustrating the consequences.
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Daring to use cooperative education
While the goal is for all students to eventually succeed, traditional schooling tends to inherently place students in competition. Why not propose a pedagogy that places students in a cooperative context on a regular basis, or even throughout the year? This didactic approach can be organized rather easily and has good effects on learners.
The University of Ottawa's "uOCompetencies"
The University of Ottawa has launched a knowledge structure to strengthen students' future challenges, skills and abilities in response to an increasingly urgent need to keep pace with societal changes.
From super-facilitator to collective mediator
A review of a Harvard Business Review article on the super facilitator. One hero too many? - How good research is used for bad conclusions.
