“Teaching as a Subversive Activity”: The Theory of Political Indoctrination
May 04, 2012 by Zombie |
Teachers have a "moral imperative" to shape students' beliefs and make them "agents for change," declared a lanugage professor at a recent Berkeley lecture.
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“Diversity”: Is There Anything It Can’t Do?
Nov 14, 2011 by John Rosenberg |
Can high scores on a nine-point "interactional diversity scale" keep students in school longer?
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What? We Were Supposed to Use Dictionaries? - No Comment
Nov 09, 2011 by Glenn Ricketts |
Sometimes small things can shed light on larger problems - consider this case, for example.
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Sentenced
Nov 08, 2011 by Peter Wood |
Peter Wood weighs Stanley Fish’s new book on how to teach college rhetoric.
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How Not to Manage Classroom Management
Oct 11, 2011 by Glenn Ricketts |
Student rudeness and uncouth classroom conduct are the stuff of legend these days, and it's frequently been covered at the Chronicle of Higher Education, Inside Higher Education, and elsewhere.
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Answering the Critics of Online Education
Aug 29, 2011 by Douglas Campbell, Shannon Lynch-McClure |
The online classroom is different from, not inferior to, the traditional classroom, argue two faculty members of an online university.
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Video: Naomi Schaefer Riley on Colleges in the Prestige (Not Teaching) Business
Aug 23, 2011 by |
Tenure and a heavy emphasis on research over teaching are among the factors that dilute contemporary higher education, says Naomi Schaefer Riley.
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Good Teaching is Especially Important for Libertarians
Jul 28, 2011 by George Leef |
Economics professor Steven Horwitz (St. Lawrence University) writes about how important it is for libertarians to be excellent teachers. "Not everyone will be the next Hayek," he writes. "Most of us will have our greatest impact… Continue Reading | Leave a Comment >
Video: R.V. Young on Sex and Freshman Composition (or: Why You Can’t Think)
Jul 11, 2011 by Andy Nash |
A discussion of how English literature was taught in the past, with more effective results.
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The Real Purpose of Education
Jul 06, 2011 by David Clemens |
Good teaching should result “in a lighting of those lamps in the mind and in the heart that shall eventually show the Way, the Truth, and the Life.”
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Faculty Members, But Not Teachers
Jun 27, 2011 by Glenn Ricketts |
First Things editor R.R. Reno takes a look at the ongoing discussion about the connection between ever-increasing costs at academic institutions and the large number of faculty members who do little or no teachng. Their… Continue Reading | 6 Comments >
Random Thoughts On Student Evaluations
Jun 08, 2011 by Glenn Ricketts |
It's pretty easy to find bona-fide empirical studies illustrating some of the major limitations of those student surveys that most of us are obliged to administer to our classes every semester.
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Audience Participation
Mar 30, 2011 by Will Fitzhugh |
Students should take responsibility for their own motivation to learn, not rely on teachers to provide it for them.
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Is the Internet a Mad, Hallucinating Deity?
Mar 28, 2011 by David Clemens |
In “The Library of Babel,” Jorge Luis Borges imagines a gargantuan Library in which are shelved books that together exhaust all possible combinations of letters. Obviously, “[f]or every rational line or… Continue Reading | Leave a Comment >
Is Teaching a Team Sport?
Mar 14, 2011 by Jason Fertig |
Students learn better when their courses fit together and build on one another. Jason Fertig counsels professors in each major to see themselves as teams united by overarching education goals.
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