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A Guide to Teaching Art at the College Level
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Salazar, Stacey – Teachers College Press, 2021
This accessible guide will help studio art and design professors meaningfully and effectively transform their curriculum and pedagogy so that it is relevant to today's learners. Situating contemporary college teaching within a historic art and design continuum, the author provides a practical framework for considering complex interactions within…
Descriptors: Art Education, Higher Education, Design, College Students
Writings of Healing and Resistance: Empathy and the Imagination-Intellect. Culture Critique. Volume 7
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Weems, Mary E., Ed. – Peter Lang New York, 2013
"Writings of Healing and Resistance: Empathy and the Imagination-Intellect" is a multi-authored, interdisciplinary journey. It continues the work started in Public Education and the Imagination-Intellect (Peter Lang, 2003) by extending the importance of empathy in developing an action-based social consciousness. Mary E. Weems doesn't argue for a…
Descriptors: Youth, African Americans, Altruism, American Studies
Argument-Driven Inquiry in Biology: Lab Investigations for Grades 9-12
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Sampson, Victor; Enderle, Patrick; Gleim, Leeanne; Grooms, Jonathon; Hester, Melanie; Southerland, Sherry; Wilson, Kristin – NSTA Press, 2014
Are you interested in using argument-driven inquiry for high school lab instruction but just are not sure how to do it? You are not alone. This book will provide you with both the information and instructional materials you need to start using this method right away. "Argument-Driven Inquiry in Biology" is a one-stop source of expertise,…
Descriptors: Biology, Science Instruction, Scientific Research, Persuasive Discourse
Plato's "Meno" as Form and as Content of Secondary School Courses in Philosophy. An Occasional Paper [And] Plato's "Republic": A Study Guide.
Brumbaugh, Robert; Soderlind, Karen
The document presents two papers related to philosophy instruction at the high school level. The first paper suggests how to motivate beginning philosophy students by injecting a sense of reality and relevance into class discussions. One recommendation for furthering this sense of reality is to ask questions of current interest such as whether…
Descriptors: Aristotelian Criticism, Case Studies, Classical Literature, Content Analysis
Useful Procedures of Inquiry.
Handy, Rollo; Harwood, E. C. – 1973
This book discusses and analyzes the many different procedures of inquiry, both old and new, which have been used in an attempt to solve the problems men encounter. Section A examines some outmoded procedures of inquiry, describes scientific inquiry, and presents the Dewey-Bentley view of scientific method. Sections B and C, which comprise the…
Descriptors: Analytical Criticism, Behavioral Sciences, Definitions, Glossaries
Creating Democratic Classrooms: The Struggle To Integrate Theory and Practice. The Practitioner Inquiry Series.
Beyer, Landon E., Ed. – 1996
In this book, seven teachers analyze their own efforts to integrate social, moral, and political issues into the public school classroom. The volume weighs the possibilities for making classrooms more responsive to the need for social justice, critical consciousness, and democratic values. Through their personal narratives, these teachers reveal…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Criticism, Democracy, Educational Philosophy
Defining the Social Studies. Bulletin 51.
Barr, Robert D.; And Others – 1977
The bulletin probes the debate over the nature of social studies and considers the role of social studies in the curriculum. It is intended to be a clarification of the field of social studies for textbook authors, curriculum developers, and educators. The bulletin is presented in five chapters. Chapter I discusses the confusion which has resulted…
Descriptors: Analytical Criticism, Citizenship, Civics, Content Analysis