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McClusky de Swart, Sarah – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this case study was to investigate the impact of a unique faculty development seminar program in teaching: the Learning Fellows Seminar at Case Western Reserve University, a large national research university, which used Experiential Learning Theory as its foundation. Adopting a case study methodology, the study addressed four…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, College Instruction, Seminars, Research Universities
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Zipp, John F. – Teaching Sociology, 2007
Decades of research have documented the positive impacts of cooperative learning on student success: increased learning, retention through graduation, improved critical thinking, and intrinsic motivation. One cooperative teaching technique, however, has received relatively little attention. In the two-stage cooperative, group, or…
Descriptors: Testing, Cooperative Learning, Sociology, Student Evaluation
Weinbaum, Batya – Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education, 2004
In this article, the author describes "Feminist Approaches to the Classics," a course she teaches at Cleveland State University. The goal of this particular course was to situate the context of western indigenous myth in relation to western classical literature and to indicate possible reasons for its reclamation in contemporary American…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Classical Literature, Feminism, Urban Universities
Marquez-Zenkov, Kristien; Nordgren, R. D. – Online Yearbook of Urban Learning, Teaching, and Research, 2004
This essay describes the broad consideration of educational standards that occurred with a cohort of masters' licensure students in public, urban university and high school contexts. This deliberation over standards was rooted in the model of standards development presented by these future teachers' licensure program and called upon this next…
Descriptors: Urban Teaching, Urban Universities, Teaching Methods, Essays