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Joe Sutliff Sanders Cd Spring 2008, Joe Sutliff Sanders
Joe Sutliff Sanders Cd Spring 2008, Joe Sutliff Sanders
Innovative Course Redesign Grant Reports
Supports faculty to redesign or develop a course in ways that implement high-impact, evidence-based, and/or innovative teaching strategies to improve student learning.
Beyond Heroes & Role Models: Using Biographies To Develop Young Change Agents, Laura E. Meyers, Teri Holbrook, Laura A. May
Beyond Heroes & Role Models: Using Biographies To Develop Young Change Agents, Laura E. Meyers, Teri Holbrook, Laura A. May
Early Childhood and Elementary Education Faculty Publications
Reading, writing, and discussing biographies provide unique opportunities for teachers and students. Critical thinking can be developed through questioning, predicting, and analyzing various biographical mediums--texts, photographs and illustrations, book reviews, websites, films, news articles, etc.--to learn more about an individual's life experiences and choices. Decision making skills can be enhanced when students juxtapose their perceptions of heroes and role models to that of a change agent, even considering how their own life experiences and choices may be contributing to larger actions of change. In this article, the authors discuss six biographies that could be used with young people in the …
Where The Humanities Live, Edward L. Ayers
Where The Humanities Live, Edward L. Ayers
History Faculty Publications
The humanities play an important role at every kind of institution. Approximately 40 percent of all undergraduate humanities degrees come from large research universities, where they account for about 15 percent of all bachelor's degrees. The United States stands in the top third of the percentage of degrees awarded in the humanities and the arts internationally, ranking with Germany and Denmark. English remains the dominant major, producing about a third of all bachelor's degrees in the humanities, followed by general humanities and liberal studies with 26 percent, and history with 18 percent.