Description
This is the first book to connect the concepts of active learning and deep learning, and to delineate theory and practice through collaboration between scholars in higher education from three countries (Japan, the United States, and Sweden) as well as different subject areas (education, psychology, learning science, teacher training, dentistry, and business).
It is only since the beginning of the twenty-first century that active learning has become key to the shift from teaching to learning in Japanese higher education. However, “active learning” in Japan, as in many other countries, is just an umbrella term for teaching methods that promote students’ active participation, such as group work, discussions, presentations, and so on.
What is needed for students is not just active learning but deep active learning. Deep learning focuses on content and quality of learning whereas active learning, especially in Japan, focuses on methods of learning. Deep active learning is placed at the intersection of active learning and deep learning, referring to learning that engages students with the world as an object of learning while interacting with others, and helps the students connect what they are learning with their previous knowledge and experiences as well as their future lives.
What curricula, pedagogies, assessments and learning environments facilitate such deep active learning? This book attempts to respond to that question by linking theory with practice.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction.- Chapter 2 An Invitation to Deep Active Learning.- Chapter 3 Terms of Engagement: Understanding and Promoting Student Engagement in Today’s College Classroom.- Chapter 4 Towards a Pedagogical Theory of Learning.- Chapter 5 Deep Active Learning from the Perspective of Active Learning Theory.- Chapter 6 The Flipped Classroom: An Instructional Framework for Promotion of Active Learning.- Chapter 7 Class Design Based on High Student Engagement Through Cooperation: Toward Classes that Bring About Profound Development.- Chapter 8 Deep Learning Using Concept Maps: Experiment in an Introductory Philosophy Course.- Chapter 9 Course Design Fostering Significant Learning: Inducing Students to Engage in Coursework as Meaningful Practice for Becoming a Capable Teacher.- Chapter 10 PBL Tutorial Linking Classroom to Practice: Focusing on Assessment as Learning.- Chapter 11 New Leadership Education and Deep Active Learning.
