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Teaching Liberal Arts Content via Wikipedia Page Authoring in an English Language Learning Context
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Konieczny, Piotr; Eckert, Kenneth – English in Education, 2022
Wikipedia is one of the most important innovations of the Internet age and has been analysed and criticised within higher educational settings for how it is utilised by students or academics for essay assignments or research. Less work has been done on how content writing for Wikipedia may be deployed as an instructional tool and its pedagogical…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Liberal Arts, Case Studies, Collaborative Writing
"Imagining Something Not Yet"--The Project of Public Writing: A Conversation with Paula Mathieu
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Minnix, Christopher – Composition Forum, 2017
In this interview, Paula Mathieu explores the rhetorical tactics and contemplative practices necessary to cultivate hope in a period of political tumult. Drawing on her scholarship on the "public turn" in Composition Studies, a term she gave us in her vital "Tactics of Hope: The Public Turn in English Composition," Mathieu…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Rhetoric, Teaching Methods, Writing Instruction
Joining the Global Village: Teaching Globalization with Wikipedia
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Konieczny, Piotr – Teaching Sociology, 2017
This paper presents an analysis of my experiences with a teaching activity that engages students in publishing in Wikipedia on issues relating to globalization. It begins with a short overview of some of the current debates revolving around teaching globalization, which lay ground for the assignment. I discuss how this teaching tool fits with a…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Global Approach, Web Sites, Electronic Publishing
Development of a Teaching Methodology for Undergraduate Human Development in Psychology
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Rodriguez, Maria A.; Espinoza, José M. – Journal of Educational Psychology - Propositos y Representaciones, 2015
The development of a teaching methodology for the undergraduate Psychology course Human Development II in a private university in Lima, Peru is described. The theoretical framework consisted of an integration of Citizen Science and Service Learning, with the application of Information and Communications Technology (ICT), specifically Wikipedia and…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Undergraduate Students, Psychology, Service Learning
Communication, Social Justice, and Joyful Commitment
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Hartnett, Stephen John – Western Journal of Communication, 2010
Combining an overview of the history of communication scholarship with lessons learned from 20 years of experience as a prison abolitionist and peace activist, Hartnett argues that the discipline of communication can be enriched intellectually and made more politically relevant by turning our efforts toward community service, problem-based…
Descriptors: Activism, Social Justice, Intellectual Disciplines, Communication Research
A Service Learning Approach to Business and Technical Writing Instruction.
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Henson, Leigh; Sutliff, Kristene – Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 1998
States that service learning educates students to volunteer their expertise for the benefit of society. Suggests that teachers of business and technical writing can apply this pedagogy by assigning students to write for nonprofits. Describes service learning's origins; proposes a rationale for it; explains sequential projects and teaching methods…
Descriptors: Business Correspondence, Collaborative Writing, Higher Education, Nonprofit Organizations