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Handbook of College and University Teaching: A Global Perspective presents international perspectives on critical issues impacting teaching and learning in diverse higher education environments, all with a unique global view. The need to understand learning and teaching from multiple cultural perspectives has become critically important in educating the next generation of college students. Education experts from around the world share their perspectives on college and university teaching, illuminating international differences and similarities. The chapters are organized around a model developed by James Groccia, which focuses on seven interrelated variables, including teacher, learner, learning process, learning context, course content, instructional processes, and learning outcomes. Using this logical model as the organizational structure of the book provides a guide for systemic thinking about what actions one should take, or suggest others take, when planning activities to improve teaching and learning, curriculum development, and assessment.
Confucius and Buddha in the College Classroom: Relational Virtuosity in Teaching and Learning
Confucius and Buddha in the College Classroom: Relational Virtuosity in Teaching and Learning
How do we understand the behavior and character of good teachers? We may assert, for example, that good teachers are powerful mainframe computers who download knowledge into their students' heads with the skillful dispensing of information in lectures. Or we might suggest that superior teachers are “good company” to students, like bicycle instructors who help less experienced riders navigate ever more complex turns and twists on a mountain highway (Baxter Magolda, 2002). Good teachers are midwives, we might aver, helping students give birth to ever more complex understandings of the world (Belenky, Clinchy, Goldberger, & Tarule, 1997). We might ...
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