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From Cognitive Dissonance To Self-Motivated Learning, Edmund J. Hansen
From Cognitive Dissonance To Self-Motivated Learning, Edmund J. Hansen
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Motivation is a multi-level change process we need to help students embrace. It often starts with experiences of cognitive dissonance and culminates in the definition of one’s learning purpose.
The Multicultural Teaching Portfolio, Matt Kaplan
The Multicultural Teaching Portfolio, Matt Kaplan
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This essay explores the rationale for building a multicultural portfolio and offers strategies for documenting and reflecting on multicultural teaching and learning.
Teachers Are Diverse, Too -- Respecting Each Other's Beliefs, Richard G. Tiberius
Teachers Are Diverse, Too -- Respecting Each Other's Beliefs, Richard G. Tiberius
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Teachers hold beliefs about teaching and learning that influence their teaching strategies and their relationships with students. These beliefs may limit what teachers do but they need not limit their success.
College Teaching As An Educational Relationship, Douglas Reimondo Robertson
College Teaching As An Educational Relationship, Douglas Reimondo Robertson
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This essay offers a conceptualization of college teaching as an educational helping relationship that challenges faculty to integrate inherent conflicts in the teacher (helper) role.
Teachers And Scholars As Designers: The Art And Practice Of Instructional Design, Charles M. Spuches
Teachers And Scholars As Designers: The Art And Practice Of Instructional Design, Charles M. Spuches
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Instructional design theory and practice can help us meet increasing challenges, employ new knowledge and resources, and create optimal learning environments.
Reflections On The Scholarship Of Teaching And Learning, Pat Hutchings
Reflections On The Scholarship Of Teaching And Learning, Pat Hutchings
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Drawing on work by The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, this essay explores emergent understandings of the scholarship of teaching and learning, faculty responses, and likely impact.
Imperatives For Reforming Pedagogy And Curriculum, Hitendra Pillay, Bob Elliott
Imperatives For Reforming Pedagogy And Curriculum, Hitendra Pillay, Bob Elliott
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Traditional models of pedagogy and curriculum assume the world is stable and internally consistent and rational. A new pedagogy and curriculum model are proposed, which challenge these assumptions.
Diversity Begins At Home: Multiculturalism In State And Regional Studies, Barbara Lounsberry
Diversity Begins At Home: Multiculturalism In State And Regional Studies, Barbara Lounsberry
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Diversity studies can begin in our backyards. State and regional studies can connect faculty in new ways and reveal racial, ethnic, religious, and cultural diversity – even in locales considered homogenous.