...Thomas Allbaugh © 2004 Duke University Press 2004 Minding American Education: Reclaimin the Tradition of Active Learning . By Martin Bickman. New York: Teachers College Press, 2003. R e v i e w s Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition...

... By . Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Ravitch, Diane. 2000 . Left Back: A Century of Failed School Reforms . New York: Simon and Schuster. University of Minnesota Center for Teaching and Learning. 2004 . “ Active Learning ,” www1.umn.edu/ohr/teachlearn/resources.html (accessed 10 January 2004...

... be a problematic context for the graphic novel, especially in large lecture spaces, with their unimodal, instructor-centered design. The experience of teaching graphic novels in an active learning classroom suggests that a multimodal approach placed in a learning space designed for multimodal approaches can...

... Community:Service Learning in the Academic Disciplines , ed. Richard J. Kraft and Marc Swadener, 83 -89. Boulder: Colorado Campus Compact. Courington, Chella. 1999 . “(Re)Defining Activism: Lessons from Women's Literature.” Women's Studies Quarterly 27 , nos. 3–4: 77 -86. Cushman, Ellen. 1999...

.... The authors advocate for an instructional model that gives students ample opportunity for active learning and for practicing close reading skills. The authors conclude with a brief coda calling for more scholarship and reflection on faculty-graduate student collaboration in both scholarship and teaching. ©...

... of promoting greater engagement, more active learning, and a critical analysis of the text’s and their own personal values. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 From “Representative” to Relatable Constructing Pedagogical Canons Based on Student Ethical Engagement Stefanie Stiles Despite...

... and challenges, concluding that encoding activities and assignments offer unique opportunities for learning. heather.mcalpine@ufv.ca Copyright © 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 At the other end of the spectrum, a highly complex encoding of a poem may entail a granular analysis of prosody down...

...Peg Downes College and university English departments always are active places, but those in many public liberal arts colleges are notably pleasant, as well. What accounts for this? Though these small academic units clearly learn much from large research institutions, perhaps the learning can...

... a pedagogy that produces, on the one hand, in active interpreters of complex language, and, on the other, a participatory, collegial classroom through a pedagogy fusing traditional modes of literary criticism with active modes of learning. © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Ausubel, David Paul...

... through a writer's affective response to perceived exigence : the activation of rhetorically situated communicative intent in response to a question to be answered or a problem to be resolved. As such, this article draws upon theories of cognition and learning in order to explore possible strategies...

... with course content in more expansive ways and to play active roles in creating course content; as such, the wiki is a space where the traditional teacher-student hierarchy is dismantled, as students and teacher collectively share the responsibilities of developing, assessing, and revising timeline content...

...Dashielle Horn Though enrollment of learning-disability (LD) students is on the rise in higher education, instructors are often underprepared to effectively support them. The composition pedagogy community needs more discussion of strategies to help LD students in the writing classroom. Scholarship...

... of students, who played community residents. However, they were not allowed to talk, so the first group had to figure out a method of communication with the residents. This activity highlighted respect for different communities and the value of learning from them. We then introduced the student groups: HEAT...

... liberal arts advocates, is the integration of Christian faith and humanistic learning, and the nexus of this integrative activity happens to be within the learners themselves — the actual people who comprise the college. In Conceiving the Christian College Duane Litfin (2004: 75), Wheaton’s...

... representations of HIV/AIDS from their disciplinary perspectives, however, they each interrogate the other's knowledge from their own position, both informing and learning as coteachers and fellow students. Their strategies also include organizing the course by issues salient to HIV/AIDS rather than major...

... demonstrate those clinical assessments and intervention skills via meticulous verbal description. Peter used his acute sense of touch to master many of the laboratory learning activities, namely, palpation lab and stretching exercises. In one area, though, he required addi- tional accommodation...

...Lisa Propst; Jade Kierbow Loicano Students in freshman composition classes often assume that the goal of college writing is to sound like someone else, so they struggle to frame their own questions in response to the world around them. This article analyzes the potential for student-driven learning...

... physical format, students learn about the vast amount of information it includes as well as the limits of that information. Through interactive exercises on etymology, students see the value—and the fun—of investigating questions about language and its development. Students can also explore the history...

...Thomas Trimble; Adrienne Jankens Recent interest in reflective writing in the classroom is tied to the suggested links among reflection, metacognition, and learning transfer. There is still a limited understanding, however, about the distinguishing features of reflective writing and how teachers...

... useful: minimizing “teacher talk” and maximizing the work the students do in the classroom, emphasizing the process of learning to encourage the students’ metacognitive thinking about their own education, and making negotiation a key activity to engage their critical thinking skills. As universities...