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Supporting Teaching With Primary Sources At Illinois Wesleyan University, Meg Miner
Supporting Teaching With Primary Sources At Illinois Wesleyan University, Meg Miner
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This report contains a summary of IWU’s participation in Ithaka S&R’s Supporting Teaching with Primary Sources study.[1] That work is “an exploratory examination of the pedagogical practices of humanities and social sciences instructors teaching with primary sources at the undergraduate level. The goal of the study is to understand instructors’ undergraduate teaching processes toward developing resources and services to support them in their work.”[2]Five Illinois Wesleyan University faculty teaching in the Humanities and Social Sciences were interviewed for this project. Based on the analysis of the interview transcripts, the findings are grouped as follows: the value and purposes of teaching …
Starting From Scratch: Meaningful Integration Of Information Literacy Through Collaborative Course And Assignment Design, Chris Sweet, Meghan Burke
Starting From Scratch: Meaningful Integration Of Information Literacy Through Collaborative Course And Assignment Design, Chris Sweet, Meghan Burke
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Instruction librarians are all too familiar with well-intentioned research papers and assignments that reduce information literacy to a simplistic checklist (must include 4 peer-reviewed sources) or set of skills (use interlibrary loan, cite materials properly). Librarians and classroom faculty should recognize that information literacy cannot just be magically imparted to students through a single assignment or library instruction session. Becoming information literate requires repeated practice in a variety of contexts. How often have you wished for the opportunity to just sit down with a faculty member and start from scratch when designing an assignment –or even better- an entire course? …
Sports As Metaphor For Comparative Inquiry, Irving Epstein
Sports As Metaphor For Comparative Inquiry, Irving Epstein
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Technology Integration In Secondary Mathematics Classrooms: Effect On Students’ Understanding, Megan Sheehan, Leah Nillas
Technology Integration In Secondary Mathematics Classrooms: Effect On Students’ Understanding, Megan Sheehan, Leah Nillas
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Technology use in secondary mathematics courses has the potential to bring about broad changes in learning environment and teaching pedagogy, allowing students to communicate and collaborate in new ways and to conjecture, justify, and generalize findings. However, this potential is only realized when teachers use technology in ways encouraging these outcomes (Galbraith, 2006). The purpose of this study is to examine the integration of technology in secondary mathematics classrooms and to evaluate the effectiveness of its use in relation to students’ learning outcomes. This self study research was conducted in honors geometry and AP calculus classes. Data sources included transcripts …
Through The Eyes Of Student Teachers: Successes And Challenges In Field Teaching Experiences, Tyler Ferber, Leah Nillas
Through The Eyes Of Student Teachers: Successes And Challenges In Field Teaching Experiences, Tyler Ferber, Leah Nillas
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“The most important aspect in the learning to teach process is the field experience, i.e., the opportunity to stand face to face with the challenges and demands of the teaching profession” (Caires & Almeida, 2007). This study presents the successes and challenges encountered by preservice teachers while conducting a semester long student teaching experience. This is a qualitative study with data collected using anonymous questionnaires and case-study interviews involving elementary and secondary preservice teachers. Challenges regarding classroom management, cooperating teacher interactions, and university demands emerged from the questionnaire and interview data. The interview data revealed a more in-depth perspective of …
Globalization And Youth: Evolving Understandings, Irving Epstein
Globalization And Youth: Evolving Understandings, Irving Epstein
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Teaching 9/11, Irving Epstein
Comparative Education In North America: The Search For Other Through The Escape From Self?, Irving Epstein
Comparative Education In North America: The Search For Other Through The Escape From Self?, Irving Epstein
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Few would argue with the contention that comparative education is at a crossroads. Not unlike the traditional social science fields, the social foundations sub-disciplines generally and comparative education in particular, have suffered as a result of general trends that have affected North American academic discourse and practice: increased disciplinary specialisation within the context of growing university corporatism, and in the 1990s, downsizing. For inherently generalist fields such as comparative education, these pressures have heightened prospects for their programmatic reduction or even elimination [1]. At the same time, they have encouraged a healthy introspection regarding current purpose and future goals [2]. …
Critical Pedagogy And Chinese Education, Irving Epstein
Critical Pedagogy And Chinese Education, Irving Epstein
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Psychological And Behavioral Attributes Of Juvenile Delinquents In Thepeople's Republic Of China, Irving Epstein
Psychological And Behavioral Attributes Of Juvenile Delinquents In Thepeople's Republic Of China, Irving Epstein
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China's Keypoint Schools: A Means For Inclusion Of The Elite?, Irving Epstein
China's Keypoint Schools: A Means For Inclusion Of The Elite?, Irving Epstein
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This study will analyze specific issues concerning the relationship between education, elite recruitment and reproduction and political leadership in China by examining ''keypoint schools," special schools which are better funded and staffed, that tend to draw a high proportion of the children of the elite. This topic is of particular interest given China's widespread student demonstrations of 1986 and the ensuing campaign against "bourgeois liberalization" conducted by party conservatives. Therefore, some effort will also be made to frame these events within a larger theoretical context. We will use Kenneth Jowitt's theoretical model of stages of development within Communist societies, to …
Some Preliminary Considerations Involved In The Education Of Torture Victims And Their Children, Irving Epstein
Some Preliminary Considerations Involved In The Education Of Torture Victims And Their Children, Irving Epstein
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Children's Rights And Juvenile Correctional Institutions In The People's Republic Of China, Irving Epstein
Children's Rights And Juvenile Correctional Institutions In The People's Republic Of China, Irving Epstein
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No abstract provided.
Juvenile Delinquency In China: Editor's Introduction, Irving Epstein
Juvenile Delinquency In China: Editor's Introduction, Irving Epstein
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Juvenile Delinquency And Reformatory Education In Chinese Society, Irving Epstein
Juvenile Delinquency And Reformatory Education In Chinese Society, Irving Epstein
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This study analyzes juvenile delinquency and reformatory education issues in the People's Republic of China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. For each case, the literature concerning juvenile delinquency is reviewed and specific institutional policies are discussed. The evidence presented in the study is based upon primary and secondary source documentation, as well as field work and interviews conducted in each region in 1992 and 1983. The study’s three hypotheses argue that stigma is conferred upon both offenders and their family members, institutional policies can be categorized as non-rational when one compares stated goals with observable polices, and that formal educational organizations …
Reevaluating Chinese Education, Irving Epstein, John Hawkins
Reevaluating Chinese Education, Irving Epstein, John Hawkins
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Educational Television In The People's Republic Of China: Some Preliminary Observations, Irving Epstein
Educational Television In The People's Republic Of China: Some Preliminary Observations, Irving Epstein
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Educational Change In The P.R.C.: On The Incorrect Handling Of Contradiction–The Case Of The Middle School, Irving Epstein
Educational Change In The P.R.C.: On The Incorrect Handling Of Contradiction–The Case Of The Middle School, Irving Epstein
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No abstract provided.