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Cook-Sather, Alison – Curriculum Inquiry, 2010
As has been the case throughout the history of education in the United States, the current structures and practices of U.S. schools and colleges are informed by particular ideals regarding the potential of education. Through this comparative descriptive analysis, I argue that a major reason why these ideals have rarely been realized is the way…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Educational History, Student Role, Educational Change
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Mollborn, Stefanie; Hoekstra, Angel – Teaching Sociology, 2010
Because lecture-based teaching limits student learning, many instructors are interested in pedagogical strategies that support critical thinking, student participation, and group discussion in large classrooms. Audience response systems, or "clickers," are an emerging tool for addressing this problem, but predominant pedagogical models for clicker…
Descriptors: Lecture Method, Large Group Instruction, Sociology, Audience Response
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Everett, Michael D.; Zinser, Otto – Journal of General Education, 1998
Asserts the need for increased critical-thinking learning outputs via more active student learning inputs. Reviews current literature, describes the Broad Analytical Expository Report (BAER) approach to teaching critical thinking, and relates experiences in experimental general education courses at a typical regional state university. Suggests…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Critical Thinking, Curriculum Development, Educational Change
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Jarvela, Sanna – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 1996
Reviews and evaluates empirical experiments that use two instructional models of student-teacher interaction, cognitive apprenticeship and reciprocal teaching. developed Argues that although many experiments have been conducted in different settings with good results, there is no evidence about the situational conditions or the ability of the…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Educational Psychology, Higher Education, Literature Reviews