This piece was originally posted on Teaching the Past
Over the past couple of weeks I have had some really concerning conversations about the state of teaching and learning in Canadian universities. In one, a colleague of mine – a university instructor – claimed that universities do not have an overall curriculum governing their operation. In another, a senior educator stated bluntly that students learned little in the average undergraduate program. Both of these statements took me aback and got me thinking a little more deeply about teaching and learning in the classroom. Surely universities and individual academic departments have curricula that structures student learning outcomes, I thought. But to what extent does this govern the content of specific courses and class pedagogies? And in what ways do we measure what students learn from university programs as a whole? Continue reading “Are Canadian Universities Academically Adrift?”
Thomas Peace 