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A Fresh Attitude for Humanities Research.
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Baker, Christopher – College Teaching, 1991
Literature and liberal arts college students' early research experience usually stresses methodology and is carefully structured and supervised. In advanced work, students must begin to develop habits of critical thinking, personal involvement with their material, and development of a metacritical attitude. (MSE)
Descriptors: College Instruction, Critical Thinking, Higher Education, Humanities
Student Motivation and Epistemological Beliefs.
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Paulsen, Michael B.; Feldman, Kenneth A. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1999
Research and theory suggest that college students' motivation to learn is related to their epistemological beliefs. Faculty can promote student motivation by designing learning activities that facilitate student development of more sophisticated epistemological beliefs. Faculty developers can assist in this by giving special attention to the…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, College Instruction, Epistemology
A Nudge Is Best: Helping Students through the Perry Scheme of Intellectual Development.
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Kloss, Robert J. – College Teaching, 1994
This article discusses William G. Perry's model of intellectual development, which posits that college students move through four phases of understanding their relationship to knowledge: dualism (knowledge as received truth), multiplicity (knowledge as opinion), relativism (knowledge as relativistic), and commitment in relativism. Specific…
Descriptors: Classification, Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Style, College Instruction
Bridging Emotion and Intellect: Classroom Diversity in Progress.
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Fried, Jane – College Teaching, 1993
College faculty are not trained for intensely emotional discussion of non-Eurocentric topics that may arise in a diversified curriculum. They must learn to teach students to separate facts from cultural assumptions; shift perspective and acknowledge the validity of other viewpoints; and differentiate between personal discomfort and intellectual…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Techniques, College Faculty, College Instruction
Using Reflective Journals and the Workshop Approach in University Classes To Develop Students' Self-Regulated Learning.
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Arredondo, Daisy E.; Rucinski, Terrance T. – 1994
This 2-year study looked at the effects of incorporating reflective journals within a workshop approach into graduate and undergraduate education courses. The workshop approach involves four key components: (1) reflective journals, (2) individual student-professor conferences, (3) structured small group discussions of project progress with peers,…
Descriptors: College Instruction, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Education Courses, Educational Methods
Classroom Research: Implementing the Scholarship of Teaching. Jossey-Bass Higher and Adult Education Series.
Cross, K. Patricia; Steadman, Mimi Harris – 1996
The centerpiece of this book are four cases which illustrate classroom research in the context of various learning issues in college classrooms. The cases are intended for discussion by readers of: (1) how the students in the hypothesized situation perceive what is going on; (2) possible hypotheses about what is interfering with student learning;…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Change Strategies, Classroom Observation Techniques, Classroom Research