14 juin 2015
14 juin 2015
Return to Italy
14 juin 2015
Standards
14 juin 2015
Doing It Wrong
14 juin 2015
The Teaching Track
14 juin 2015
Assuming (In)Competence
By Lee Skallerup Bessette. A few weeks ago, my son broke his arm.
He broke his arm quite badly, actually, in a semi-public space, surrounded by people we sort of knew; not complete strangers, but people who didn’t know us very well and vice-versa. More...
14 juin 2015
In Praise of Academe
By Yves Salomon-Fernandez. Sunday afternoon as I drove back from a meeting with my student mentee—assigned through the graduate program in which I teach — I reflected about the impact of our sector, higher education. This was triggered by a statement she made about not liking school, a view largely shaped by her undergraduate experience. More...
14 juin 2015
Teaching vs. Learning
By Steven Mintz. The high point in my teaching career was leading sections of Columbia University’s core curriculum courses. Columbia is among the last bastions of a traditional private research university offering a prescribed “great books” core to undergraduates. The core’s centerpieces are close readings of landmarks in Western literature and classic texts in philosophy, political theory, and theology. Read more...14 juin 2015
Four Traps ...
By Steven Mintz. Routine and inertia too often rule the way that departments and institutions devise their curricula; the same goes for the ways individual faculty members teach and assess student learning. Read more...14 juin 2015
How to Promote Educational Innovation
By Steven Mintz. American colleges and universities have adopted a variety of strategies to promote educational innovation.Let’s take a look at what works and what doesn’t, beginning with the strategies that haven’t proven particularly effective. Read more...
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