Full Description
Revitalizing Classrooms brings together six diverse essays with the central purpose of providing a venue for scholar teachers from a number of disciplines to convey their individual journeys in pedagogical innovation. These classroom narratives involve a paradigm shift away from traditional lecture modes to vital, active, engaged teaching and learning. From high school classrooms to undergraduate and graduate classes, these models provide adaptable ways to reinvigorate and energize classroom spaces that center student driven learning.
Contents
Dedication
Foreword—Virginia S. Lee
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Ways of Inquiry—Pathways and Partnerships for Grassroots Innovation
Jeff Galle and Rebecca L. Harrison
Chapter 1: Moving Pictures and Words: Multimodal Projects in College Composition
Laura Ng and Karen Redding
Chapter 2: Reacting to the Past and What it Means Today
Linda Hughes
Chapter 3: PBL and Collaborative Learning in the Complex Learning of Solar Geometry
Bronne Dytoc
Chapter 4: Discovering Empirical Patterns in the Social Sciences: Small Assignments with Web-Based Data in Introductory Classes
Thomas D. Lancaster
Chapter 5: The Ethics of the A-Bomb
Pangratios Papacosta
Chapter 6: A Tale of Two Beneficiaries: Using Inquiry-Guided Learning to Foster Social Research Skills and Critical Thinking
Lyndi Hewitt and Lorena Russell
About the Contributors
Index
