This study aims to explore students' attitudes toward teacher feedback. The study used a triangulation of participants and methods in which the practice of feedback was seen from the perspectives of students and teachers collected from the quantitative data (questionnaires) and qualitative data (open-ended items in questionnaires and interviews).…

Effectively teaching college students about social class stratification is a difficult challenge. Explanations for this difficulty tend to focus on the students who often react with resistance, paralysis, or rage. Sociologists have been using games and simulations as alternative methods for several decades to teach about these sensitive subjects.…

Teaching about "race" and racism to a diverse student group can lead to some very interesting exchanges. Some of these moments are much to do with the subject content. Learning about racism often pulls on our emotional strings: black students sometimes express their hurt and anger, while white students sometimes remain silent or express…

Argues that the possibility for surprise is the starting point for both effective writers and teachers and describes six elements that help create surprise: expectation, habit, ease, recognition, "pounceability," and acceptance. (MM)

Music listening experiences have a role in the general music program. "Scanning" is Harry S. Broudy's approach to developing responsiveness to music's expressive qualities through music listening. (AM)

Criticizes the way music is being taught in the schools because current teaching methods do not emphasize music's emotional, expressive impact. The author argues that the primary role of music education programs should be to stimulate students' emotional and imaginative responses. (AM)

A model for incorporating feminism in nursing education has four elements: facilitator readiness to teach and learn, participant readiness to learn, feminist content, and feminist teaching methods. Combining feminist scholarship and nursing theory leads to experiential teaching, connected classroom environments, and personal growth. (SK)

Presents four mistakes made with students and four criteria for developing student independence and responsibility, namely student ownership, student-active learning, student accountability, and student control. Discusses the method of student-directed learning (SDL), the role of emotions in learning, course modification for SDL, and results of…

What role can emotions play in informing readers' interpretations of poems? This think-aloud study, with an experimental design, featured 10 college freshmen randomly assigned to 2 groups. The think-aloud (TA) group verbalized thoughts while reading 2 poems, and the think-and-feel-aloud (TFA) group voiced both thoughts and feelings. Participants…

The article discusses the use of Marshall Rosenberg's Nonviolent Communication method to teach children who have emotional and behavioral challenges inside the music classroom. The method consists of using direct and nonjudgmental language, expressing feelings and needs, and finally making a request as opposed to a demand.

This exercise explores how organizations affect individuals' feelings and expressions of emotion. Although recent attention by management theorists suggests that emotions are an important aspect of organizational life, people's actual experience of emotions at work often do not reflect this emphasis: Work-place emotions remain, in large part,…

This paper describes a research study completed in Singapore with students enrolled in an education degree program. The researchers were interested in the reading habits of Singaporean students who will become teachers of English in the Singapore government teaching service. Of interest is the data collection method which involved the development…

Research on the executive functions of the brain supports a constructivist, experiential approach to teaching and learning.

Recounts how students at Rutgers (New Jersey) Preparatory School used journal writing to explore their feelings about the disruption in their academic life caused by a fire that destroyed much of their school. (RBW)

Encourages Montessori educators and others to consider the importance of talking with children about loss and death and helping them to identify the basic process of grief and the coping skills used for proceeding with grief work in one's lifetime. Describes helpful activities, such as using children's books, keeping journals, and creating a grief…