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• Field Notes on “Diversity sensitive education, the International Classroom and the Mixed Classroom” for Talent, Diversity and Internationalisation

  

  At the Vrije Universiteit (VU), the International Office along with the LEARN! Academy offers the “Mixed Classroom in Practice” – a cutting-edge workshop that provides a hands-on, bottom-up approach to pedagogical diversity training. I am one of the facilitators of this workshop.  I had worked on a project to explain why we use the term…

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  23 Nov 2018

  Academic, Audience, Awareness, diversity

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• Teaching the Ghazal in Class

  

  Last week I was subbing at the Vrije Universteit for the Genre, Literature and Analysis class for the Bachelor First Year course. I was teaching the villanelle and ghazal, which involved aspects of the forms as well as close reading. I found myself in a room full of bright, intelligent, engaged, and wise students. They…

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  20 Nov 2017

  Academic, Art, Audience, Awareness, Education, Poem A Day, Poetry, Story

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