How Student-Centered Learning Connects to Great Teaching (and Vice Versa)

By Cathy Davidson. Today, I received a wonderful email from one of the finest university leaders I know.  In addition to the kind of generous praise that we all love, she mentioned her own resistance, at times, to Deweyesque student-centered, active, engaged learning practice and, in particular, spoke of the great profs who inspired her own education. Many of the finest educators I know share this conviction so perhaps it's useful to write a blog about exactly this topic. More...