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Vaughn, Margaret; Parsons, Seth A.; Scales, Roya Q.; Wall, Amanda – New Educator, 2017
The purpose of this article is to explore how pedagogical visions inform our work as former classroom teachers and current teacher educators in rural and urban regions of the United States. Specifically, we explore the instructional decisions we make as we work to meet these visions in higher education. Teacher educators are charged with the task…
Descriptors: Teacher Educators, Teaching Models, Teaching Methods, Teaching Styles
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Paasonen, Susanna – Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies, 2016
This article addresses the pedagogical choices and the visceral reverberations involved in teaching porn in the university classroom. The author discusses different aims and goals for teaching pornography, as well as the some key pedagogical considerations and options involved in this, drawing on her own experiences teaching porn in Finnish gender…
Descriptors: Pornography, Class Activities, Controversial Issues (Course Content), College Programs
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Hilton, John, III.; Gardner, Ryan S. – Religious Education, 2012
Several scholarly commentaries concur that we know more about the life and character of Jeremiah than any other Hebrew prophet in the Old Testament. His personality, his mission, and his unwavering determination undergird his urgent message to the people of the declining southern kingdom of Judah to have their own encounter with the Divine so they…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Educational Objectives, Teaching Models, Biblical Literature
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Alcoba, Jesu – Journal of Education for Business, 2014
There is a need for strategic thinking in higher education. Loyalty to a business school's values and need to differentiate lead one to reflect on the actions undertaken within the institution and how they align with the business school's aims. This article contributes to this issue through what is called strategic alignment, which is the…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Higher Education, Strategic Planning, Alignment (Education)
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McBeth, Mark K.; Robison, Shea K. – Journal of Political Science Education, 2012
For those times when political science is again confronted with questions about its usefulness, we suggest that the classroom is a central arena for our discipline to reassert its relevance to the society in which we live. In particular, given the existence of our open and accessible political system, we argue that the introductory course taught…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, United States Government (Course), Introductory Courses, Political Science
Jukes, Ian; McCain, Ted; Crockett, Lee – Phi Delta Kappan, 2011
Exponential change is making our education system obsolete. New inventions will replace not only textbooks, but everything we currently think of as school. Teachers will need to rethink their roles as advances in teaching machines allow lessons to be customized to every child wherever that child might be. What is taught also will change because…
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Teacher Role, Educational Change, Learning Processes
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Hayes, Aneta; Holden-Rachiotis, Caroline; Kavanagh, Brendan; Otoom, Sameer – Evaluation & Research in Education, 2011
Learning and achievement issues among Foundation Year (FY) students at the Royal College of Surgeons (RCSI) Bahrain have been responded to by the Language and Culture Unit to address the educational problems that have arisen as a direct consequence of the differences in skills students have on leaving secondary school and the skills that are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Western Civilization, Medical Students
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Ogunniyi, M. B.; Ogawa, M. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2008
Since the World Conference on Higher Education organized by UNESCO in 1998, higher educational institutions around the world have been called upon to produce educators (teachers) who are able to motivate their learners to: (1) develop an awareness about, and a valid understanding of the Nature of Science (NOS); and (2) relate such knowledge to the…
Descriptors: Indigenous Knowledge, Scientific Principles, Foreign Countries, Educational Experience
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Simoes, J. A.; Relvas, C.; Moreira, R. – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2004
Computer-aided design, computer-aided manufacturing, computer-aided analysis, reverse engineering and rapid prototyping are tools that play an important key role within product design. These are areas of technical knowledge that must be part of engineering and industrial design courses' curricula. This paper describes our teaching experience of…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Design, Manufacturing, Engineering, Teaching Experience