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Transformative Learning and Transition Theory: Toward Developing the Ability To Facilitate Insight.
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Robertson, Douglas L. – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 1997
Few college teachers understand the process learners go through during periods of insight, large or small. Many treat this transition from one paradigm of knowledge to another as purely cognitive when, in fact, it is also highly emotional. A model of the transition is presented and a reflective guide is offered to help teachers facilitate this…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, College Faculty, College Instruction, Concept Formation
Inside Feminist Classrooms: An Ethnographic Approach.
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Maher, Frances; Tetreault, Mary Kay Thompson – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1992
Feminist teaching practices, by questioning traditional epistemology and distribution of power, offer special advantages in the culturally diverse classroom, where the valuing of different perspectives is essential. A study of two feminist teachers demonstrates how they attempt to create new kinds of classroom cultures through mastery, voice,…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, College Faculty
Knowledge versus Pedagogy: The Marginalization of Teacher Education.
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Maher, Frances; Tetreault, Mary Kay – Academe, 1999
The traditional dichotomy in higher education between the world of knowledge and that of pedagogy also defines the role of the field of teacher education. Recent initiatives to improve undergraduate teaching have ignored potential contributions of teacher preparation programs and education departments to campuswide discussions of learning, leaving…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, College Faculty, Educational Change, Educational Improvement
Academic Women: Different Ways of Knowing. ASHE Annual Meeting Paper.
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Amey, Marilyn J. – 1992
This paper examines the degree to which women faculty and administrators are able to engage in connected knowing and interdependent definitions of self and reality within an institutional environment that values and rewards individualism, separateness, competition, and objectivity. The paper notes that connected knowing is essentially the process…
Descriptors: College Administration, College Faculty, Collegiality, Comparative Analysis
Collaborative Learning: Higher Education, Interdependence, and the Authority of Knowledge.
Bruffee, Kenneth A. – 1993
This volume explores the role and implications of collaborative learning for the mission and future of higher education and college teaching. Part I discusses the implications of nonfoundational social constructionist thought for colleges and universities. Nonfoundational notions of knowledge and social relations argue that knowledge has no…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, College Faculty, College Instruction, College Science
Black Women in the Academy. Promises and Perils.
Benjamin, Lois, Ed. – 1997
This book includes 30 essays by black women college administrators and faculty. The essays explore the thematic issues of identity, power, and change and examining the impact of racism and sexism in institutions of higher education. Essay authors come from both historically black and predominantly white institutions, public and private…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Administrators, Black Achievement, Black Education