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Teaching Integratively: Five Dimensions Of Transformation, Roben Torosyan
Teaching Integratively: Five Dimensions Of Transformation, Roben Torosyan
Roben Torosyan Ph.D.
Compares models for personal, professional & civic life applications. Abstract: This chapter describes five dimensions of living and learning, and offers a comparison with other major models, with powerful practices to help learners consider multiple perspectives and apply learning concretely to personal, professional and civic life alike. Book description: Leading researchers and practitioners explore the frontiers of education from an Integral perspective.The educational challenges faced today are driving us toward a new step in the evolution of educational theory and practice. Educators are called to go beyond simply presenting alternatives, to integrating the best of mainstream and alternative approaches and …
Using The Novel To Teach Multiculturalism, Michelle Loris
Using The Novel To Teach Multiculturalism, Michelle Loris
Michelle Loris
Description of a fourteen week course taught by Michelle Loris, professor of English at Sacred Heart University. The course, titled Recent Ethnic American Fictions, introduced students to several concepts from contemporary literary theory. The theories included New Criticism, Deconstruction, Cultural Studies, New Historicism, and Feminist Theory. The assumption was that these concepts would give students the tools to become critical readers, which would then provide them with a deeper understanding of these multicultural novels and their particular cultural contexts. For a semester, reading and thinking about these multicultural novels engaged and challenged the students' assumptions about themselves and the America …