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Peer reviewedBrowne, M. Neil; Freeman, Karl – Teaching in Higher Education, 2000
Proposes that classrooms that encourage critical thinking possess distinguishing features that can assess whether critical thinking is a regular occurrence. Suggests that a critical thinking classroom commonly reflects the following attributes: frequent questions, developmental tension, fascination with the contingency of conclusions, and active…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Classroom Environment, College Environment, Critical Thinking
Bryson, Judy – Active Learner: A Foxfire Journal for Teachers, 1996
A teacher describes her experience applying the Foxfire approach to a particularly unruly fourth-grade class. A trip to an old-growth forest caught their attention and became their learning laboratory for the year. Practically every project they did focused around the forest, and they became a productive, hard working class. (TD)
Descriptors: Active Learning, Cooperative Learning, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
Peer reviewedHersh, Richard H. – Daedalus, 1999
Residential liberal arts colleges provide the most important form of undergraduate education for the 21st century, by virtue of their primary focus on teaching, small size, residential nature, quest for genuine community, engagement of students in active learning, concern for a general and coherent education, and emphasis on development of the…
Descriptors: Active Learning, College Environment, College Instruction, College Role
Peer reviewedSadofsky, Mimsy – Paths of Learning: Options for Families & Communities, 1999
Graduates of Sudbury Valley School (Framingham, Massachusetts) relate their learning experiences, including the positive relationships they developed with adults, their active role in school administration, the importance of play to their learning, the values they acquired as a result of their schooling, and how their experiences prepared them for…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Educational Benefits, Educational Environment, Educational Experience
Peer reviewedBergen, Doris – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 1995
Comments on the articles presented in this issue, discussing factors that influence the climate for learning. Ways that beliefs, past experiences, and cultural competence of adults may influence their ability to work collaboratively and support children's collaborative work are discussed, as are the effects of various adult interaction styles on…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Cognitive Development
Direct linkChickering, Arthur W.; Kytle, Jackson – New Directions for Higher Education, 1999
Whatever forms they take, colleges of the 21st century must incorporate the educational fundamentals that underlie traditional residential institutions. Key ingredients of these educationally powerful environments include clear purposes, maximization of human interaction, pedagogies for active learning, recognition of individual differences,…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Active Learning, College Environment, College Role
