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Alice In Wonderland Nov 1999

Alice In Wonderland

Taylor Theatre Playbills

The playbill for Taylor University’s Fall 1999 performance of Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.


Place A La Litterature Dans Le Cours De Conversation!, Corinne Etienne, Sylvie Vanbaelen Mar 1999

Place A La Litterature Dans Le Cours De Conversation!, Corinne Etienne, Sylvie Vanbaelen

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

Au niveau universitaire, la plupart des programmes de francais offrent un cours que l'on peut classer sous l'appellation generique de "cours de conversation" ("Conversational Skills", "French for Oral Communication, etc.). Si le but de ce cours est clair: ameliorer les competences communicatives orales des apprenants, son contenu est par contre tres ouvert. Dans ce type de cours, la "conversation" prend souvent appui sur l'exploitation de documents authentiques et permet ainsi aux apprenants d'approfondir leurs connaissances culturelles. Cette bipolarite: developpement des competences de communication orale et decouverte de la culture nous semble tout a fait appropriee. On peut cependant regretter l'absence …


Tractatus Pedagogico Peripateticus (The Walk Of Future Learning), Daniel James Macneil Jan 1999

Tractatus Pedagogico Peripateticus (The Walk Of Future Learning), Daniel James Macneil

Master's Capstone Projects

Our understanding of human learning has been greatly improved by recent research findings from the fields of cognitive science, neurobiology, organizational studies, anthropology, linguistics, and evolutionary psychology. Despite all that is known, however, the majority of formal schools in the world operate much as they did 50 years ago. The pedagogy and the structure of the educational experience still reflect industrial age assumptions that are increasingly anachronistic in the modern knowledge production economy and in the post-modern cultural arena. Given the paucity of examples, it is difficult to visualize the characteristics of a future learning society - a society that …


Integration Of Children's Literature And Mathematics With Literature-Based Supplemental Activities In A First Grade Classroom, Linda Mcdow Jan 1999

Integration Of Children's Literature And Mathematics With Literature-Based Supplemental Activities In A First Grade Classroom, Linda Mcdow

All Graduate Projects

The Essential Academic Learning Requirements developed by the various subject committees selected by the Washington State Commission on Student Learning and the recommendations made by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics are addressed. The benefits of integrating children's literature and mathematics are studied. Integrated activities and an annotated bibliography of children's literature that could supplement a traditional mathematics curriculum for primary age students are developed.


Seeing History Through Literature: An Interdisciplinary Unit On World War Ii, William White Jan 1999

Seeing History Through Literature: An Interdisciplinary Unit On World War Ii, William White

All Graduate Projects

The purpose of this project was to design and develop a model interdisciplinary unit combining English and history at the junior year. To accomplish this purpose, current research and literature on integration was reviewed. Additionally, learning objectives, teaching strategies, educational activities and instructional materials were developed and adapted. The curriculum focuses on World War II. It should serve as a possible example of how integration might work to effectively facilitate an understanding of history through literature and literature through history.


A Study To Categorize Adult Education Literature Through Donlevy And Donlevy's Template Of Perspectives, Linda A. Mason Jan 1999

A Study To Categorize Adult Education Literature Through Donlevy And Donlevy's Template Of Perspectives, Linda A. Mason

OTS Master's Level Projects & Papers

The following objectives were established to address this problem: 1. How effectively can adult education literature be categorized by using the Donlevy and Donlevy Template of Perspectives? 2. What recommendations can be made from these perspectives for the teaching of adult education principles?