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A Matter of Relevance: Teaching Classics in the 21st Century
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Youssef, Lamiaa – College Teaching, 2010
In a world literature course, an instructor faces the challenge of engaging the students in classical texts that are historically, geographically, and linguistically "alien" to them. Through a three-step instructional model that includes approximation, thematic relevance, and application, the instructor tries to help students identify,…
Descriptors: Classics (Literature), College Instruction, World Literature, Course Content
Community Education and Critical Race Praxis: The Power of Voice
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McKay, Cassandra L. – Educational Foundations, 2010
Critical pedagogy is an instructional approach to teaching that employs a theoretical framework by which social injustices are critiqued. This type of pedagogy encourages the learner to critique obstructions to the learner's full participation in society, and encourages critical collective action, through the engagement of the learner's…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Education Courses, Community Education, Adult Basic Education
Three Generations of DIF Analyses: Considering where It Has Been, where It Is Now, and where It Is Going
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Zumbo, Bruno D. – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2007
The purpose of this article is to reflect on the state of the theorizing and praxis of DIF in general: where it has been; where it is now; and where I think it is, and should, be going. Along the way the major trends in the differential item functioning (DIF) literature are summarized and integrated providing some organizing principles that allow…
Descriptors: Test Bias, Evaluation Research, Research Methodology, Regression (Statistics)
From Learning Organization to Practically Wise Organization
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Rowley, Jennifer; Gibbs, Paul – Learning Organization, 2008
Purpose: Although the notion of wisdom confronts the economic rationale of business organizations, this paper aims to argue that organizations are coming under increasing pressure not only to learn, change and adapt, but also to take actions that are ethically acceptable and respond to the expectations of multiple stakeholders, or in other words…
Descriptors: Organizational Development, Business, Ethics, Models
The Medium Is the Message: Development of a Praxis-Based Comprehensive Project Model in an Advanced Generalist MSW Program
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Jones, Jill B.; Pierce, Dean – Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 2006
We describe in this paper the evolving development and evaluation of a praxis-based comprehensive project model in an advanced generalist MSW program. We explain how this model provides students an effective and meaningful way to incorporate social work generalist principles into professional practice, develop expertise about specific clients and…
Descriptors: Social Work, Masters Programs, Program Development, Theory Practice Relationship
Context Orientated Teaching in Praxis
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Nikos, Klaoudatos; Stavros, Papastavridis – Teaching Mathematics and Its Applications: An International Journal of the IMA, 2004
In this paper, we describe the skeleton of two teaching units, based on a Model for teaching mathematics, Context Orientated Teaching (COT). The first teaching unit concerns the proof of a mathematical proposition, while the second one concerns the solution of an open problem. Both are taught in the 10th grade, under the specific conditions of the…
Descriptors: Grade 10, Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Models, Context Effect