Engaging Ideas : The Professor's Guide to Integrating Writing, Critical Thinking, and Active Learning in the Classroom

Bean, John C.

ISBN 10: 0787902039 / ISBN 13: 9780787902032

Editore: Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John, 1996

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• Titolo: Engaging Ideas : The Professor's Guide to Integrating Writing, Critical Thinking, and Active Learning in the Classroom
• Editore: Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0787902039
• ISBN 13: 9780787902032
• Rilegatura: Brossura
• Edizione: ideas Edition.
• Condizione: Very Good
• Peso: 1,504 libbre

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Riassunto

A practical nuts and bolts guide for teachers from any discipline who want to design interest-provoking writing and critical thinking activities. Engaging Ideas:

• Shows how teachers can encourage inquiry, exploration, discussion, and debate in their courses.
• Presents a wide variety of strategies for stimulating active learning and for coaching writing and critical thinking.
• Offers teachers concrete advice on how to design courses, structure assignment, use class time, critique student performance, and model critical thinking activities.
• Demonstrates how writing can easily be integrated with such other critical thinking activities and inquiry discussions, simulation games, classroom debates, and interactive lectures.

Informazioni sull?autore

JOHN C. BEAN is professor of English at Seattle University, where he directs the writing program and chairs the Task Force on Teaching and Learning. He is coauthor (with John D. Ramage) of Writing Arguments (3rd ed., 1995) and Form and Surprise in Composition (1986).