William Smith

Dec 2, 2024 | kappanonline.org | William Smith |Teresa Preston |PDK Connection

I have wide-ranging professional interests and curiosities. Each time I begin exploring a new academic area, I always return to Threshold Concepts within the Disciplines to help me make sense of the new intellectual terrain. The learning theory this book offers — the “threshold concept” — is straightforward: In each academic discipline, there exist ideas or concepts that serve as portals into the discipline.

Nov 25, 2024 | kappanonline.org | William Smith

States hope to achieve ambitious goals like preventing future genocides and reducing antisemitism by requiring that students learn about the Holocaust. State education mandates have been around for decades, and complaints about them have been around just as long. In 1999, Thomas F.