Suggests that sometimes making assignments "vague" places the burden of decision making and problem solving on students, requires that students invent and pursue their own questions, and demands that they practice independent thinking. (MS)

In her literature and composition classes, an educator encourages students to correlate their memory and imagination to the rhetorical elements of logos, pathos, and ethos and construct regenerative structures of knowledge through a comprehensive and objective understanding of a contextualized problem. She employs Bakhtin's dialogic method of…

Classroom discussion can be valuable in college math and can be enhanced by: adding time in the agenda by not repeating textbook material; welcoming classroom participation; using assignments and exams for in-class interaction; and integrating material from different parts of the course, or different courses, into classroom discussion. (MSE)