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Download full textKanel, Sylvia; Anthony, Marlene – 1994
Professors in a Communication Arts methods course for preservice and inservice elementary school teachers sought to move the content of the language arts curriculum from a direct instruction to a whole language model. A transformation came about as one professor realized that her efforts to enthusiastically convey the importance of authentic…
Descriptors: College Instruction, Curriculum Development, Elementary Education, Higher Education
Trivisonno, Ann – 1987
The "problem-posing" education model of Paulo Freire takes as its departure point the life experience of the learner, rather than the teacher's knowledge. Ursuline College (Cleveland, Ohio) created several courses for returning adult students that were based on Freire's ideas. One course called "Humanities Focus on Life" is for…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Students, Communication Skills, Continuing Education
