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Book SynopsisRevitalizing 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.
Trade ReviewAt a time when, despite lip service, teaching is woefully undervalued in much of higher education, Oxford College of Emory University’s Institute for Pedagogy in the Liberal Arts honors committed, innovative, and successful teaching and teachers. These essays reflect some of the best sessions from IPLA over the years and provide the reader with powerful and successful models for improving their teaching, and, more importantly, through that teaching improving student learning. -- Edward L. Queen, Center for Ethics, Emory University
Pedagogical approaches to Inquiry-based learning serve to build a solid foundation for critical thinking skills that are essential to student success in college and careers. The essays contained in this volume will serve as model best practices to assist other educators trying to adopt an inquiry-based approach. -- Jill Lane, Assistant Vice President of Academic Planning and Assessment, Clayton State University
In this collection of essays from the IPLA incubator, Galle and Harrison and their authors show that, while inquiry-guided learning projects may be grounded in specific courses, the approach itself transcends these particular contexts, and inquiry is ultimately a habit of mind of the educated person. -- Nancy Chick, Academic Director of the Taylor Institute for Teaching & Learning; University Chair in Teaching and Learning, University of Calgary
Table of ContentsDedication 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
