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Transforming Higher Education through Transdisciplinary and Inclusive Curriculum
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, Walden University, United States

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference, in Savannah, GA, United States ISBN 978-1-939797-13-1 Publisher: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), Chesapeake, VA

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Situated within the context of teacher education, this study outlines the participatory action research (PAR) in developing global competencies, critical thinking and 21st century skills among pre-service teachers and showcases their transformative, inclusive, multilingual, multicultural projects across content areas. This research aims to advance scientific knowledge of Transformative Critical Pedagogy as a means to promote heutagogy through the lens of innovative technologies in global education context while redefining education and developing “transformative educator model.” It studied over 40 pre-service teachers and documented their transformative, inclusive, multilingual, multicultural projects across content areas.

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Yildiz, M. (2016). Transforming Higher Education through Transdisciplinary and Inclusive Curriculum. In G. Chamblee & L. Langub (Eds.), Proceedings of Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference (pp. 2442-2449). Savannah, GA, United States: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). Retrieved January 21, 2020 from .

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