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Direct linkSchwab, Jacqueline E.; Murowchick, Elise; Yaure, Robin G.; Cruz, Laura – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2021
This article describes the development and assessment of teaching strategies to enhance student professional identity development by shifting the pedagogical focus from content knowledge to the practice of interpersonal and conflict resolution skills, and reflection to create awareness, observe growth, and find meaning.
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Professional Identity, Interpersonal Competence, Conflict Resolution
Sowers, Kerri L.; Meyers, Shelly – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2021
Stockton University is a mid-size liberal arts institution in Southern New Jersey. Degree seekers must complete required course work in both liberal studies and core, specialized areas, such as business, health sciences, hospitality, education, social and behavioral sciences, or organizational leadership. Stockton emphasizes Essential Learning…
Descriptors: Portfolios (Background Materials), Electronic Publishing, Undergraduate Students, Student Evaluation
Stabile, Christopher; Ritchie, William F. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2013
This article suggests that institutional attitude toward faculty learning initiatives, which is determined by its belief constructs, influences how faculty learning initiatives will be interpreted and applied. A construct is the organizing framework where an institution demonstrates its belief and values regarding faculty learning initiatives.…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Faculty Development, Training, Enrichment
Qualters, Donna M. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2010
Experiential education is a powerful learning experience for students and it can be a powerful experience for faculty, staff, administrators and the community as well. In other words, a well-thought-out, carefully conceived program of engaging students beyond the classroom walls enriches the university environment and the community in which it is…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Reflection, Curriculum
Raelin, Joseph A. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2010
The dominant method of providing formal knowledge to students in education in North America is through classroom training. The focus of this effort is on the delivery of a broad range of conceptual knowledge and skills in various liberal and professional fields of endeavor. Besides classroom instruction, the other predominant mode is through…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Work Experience, Reflection, Learning Processes
Schwartz, Harriet L. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2012
Prior to working on this sourcebook, the author thinks that if asked, she would have responded that the essence of setting boundaries was in the moments "with" students--the moments when she clarifies her availability or make the split-second decision about whether to self-disclose or not. After working with the contributing authors for this book…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Students, Interaction, Self Disclosure (Individuals)
Chadsey, Terry; Jackson, Marcy – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2012
Through the Center for Courage & Renewal, the authors offer personal and professional retreats and programs designed to explore vocational and life questions, offer renewal and encouragement, and deepen engagement in professional practice. Using what they call the Circle of Trust[R] approach, they invite groups into a communal process based upon a…
Descriptors: Evidence, Educational Principles, Educational Practices, Trust (Psychology)
Cohen, Perrin – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2010
Intrinsic to experiential learning is the challenge of empowering students to both reflectively engage with and inquire into ethical issues, while facing time, task, social, and other daily pressures. As designated "learners" in a professional setting, experiential education students typically see themselves as having little authority…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Ethics, Reflection, Inquiry
Hao, Richie Neil – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2011
Informed by Rosenberg's (2003) concept of nonviolent communication, the author's pedagogical perspective encourages educators to criticize institutional and classroom practices that ideologically place underserved students at disadvantaged positions. At the same time, this perspective urges teachers to be self-reflective of their actions through…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Altruism, Teaching Methods, Teacher Role
Michalec, Paul; Brower, Gary – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2012
A group of faculty and staff gather in a conference room in the student union to share experiences with the soul-role divide at work and in the classroom. The meeting begins with a reminder of the group's conversational norms that invite deep reflection and a safe place for the soul. The purpose of the meeting is exploring the deep heartfelt and…
Descriptors: Meetings, Higher Education, Campuses, Reflection
Britton, Willoughby B.; Brown, Anne-Catharine; Kaplan, Christopher T.; Goldman, Roberta E.; DeLuca, Marie; Rojiani, Rahil; Reis, Harry; Xi, Mandy; Chou, Jonathan C.; McKenna, Faye; Hitchcock, Peter; Rocha, Tomas A.; Himmelfarb, Josh; Margolis, David M.; Niles, Halsey F.; Eckert, Allison M.; Frank, Tana – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2013
Contemplative practices, which engage the subjective or "first-person" perspective, are being incorporated into systems of higher education that have traditionally relied on didactic or "third-person" approaches (Dederer 2007; Kroll 2010; Repetti 2010; Roth 2006; Shapiro, Brown, and Astin 2011; Smith 2006; Zajonc 2006). The…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Teaching Methods, Educational Change, Metacognition
Grabove, Valerie L. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2009
In this article, the author describes how a mid-sized community college in Ontario embraces the notion of internationalization. Although her analysis concludes that most of the institutional initiatives are market-driven and aimed at increasing revenue, she also observes that these entrepreneurial efforts at college-level have had the desirable…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reflection, Trend Analysis, Barriers
Haigh, Martin – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2009
Critical of approaches that treat internationalization as the addition of multicultural elements to a Western curriculum, the author makes an even more radical proposal. Specifically, he explores the possibility of internationalizing the undergraduate curriculum by organizing it around a non-Western framework rooted in Indian philosophy, thereby…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, International Education, Citizenship, Empathy
Kahane, David – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2009
There are many reasons to internationalize the higher education curriculum: catering to more diverse instructor and student bodies or equipping students to flourish in an increasingly globalized world, for example. For many educators, though, a key reason for internationalization is ethical: it helps students to examine their implicit and explicit…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Responsibility, Altruism, Social Justice
Matz, Lou – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2010
University of the Pacific is a private, comprehensive university with a College of Arts and Sciences and six professional schools, and with a population of more than four thousand students on its main campus in the ethnically diverse central valley city of Stockton, California. The signature component of Pacific's general education program is the…
Descriptors: General Education, Seminars, Citizenship Education, Private Colleges
