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Strategies for Energizing Large Classes: From Small Groups to Learning Communities. The Jossey-Bass Higher and Adult Education Series.

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MacGregor, Jean, Ed.; Cooper, James L., Ed.; Smith, Karl A., Ed.; Robinson, Pamela, Ed. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2000

This volume is a synthesis of interviews conducted with 48 teachers who are infusing their large classes (over 100 students) with small-group activities or are working explicitly to create student communities within large classes. The chapters are: chapter 1, "The Argument for Making Large Classes Seem Small" (James L. Cooper and Pamela…

Descriptors: Active Learning, Class Organization, Class Size, Large Group Instruction

Teaching To Promote Intellectual and Personal Maturity: Incorporating Students' Worldviews and Identities into the Learning Process. The Jossey-Bass Higher and Adult Education Series.

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Magolda, Marcia B. Baxter, Ed. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2000

This volume offers an alternative diagnosis of the expectations gap that exists between students and professors. Professors' expectations often go far beyond students' assumptions about the nature of knowledge. It is not what students think but rather how they think that is important in the learning process. How students make meaning mediates how…

Descriptors: Black Students, Educational Environment, Higher Education, Interpersonal Relationship