“Volunteers Welcome, That Is, Some Volunteers”: Experiences Teaching College Courses at a Women’s Prison

2016 ◽  
pp. 277-299 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristenne M. Robison
Keyword(s):  
College Courses ◽  
Teaching College ◽  
Women's Prison

Using the World Wide Web to Teach Everyday Applications of Social Psychology

1998 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 212-216 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard C. Sherman
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
World Wide Web ◽  
World Wide ◽  
College Courses ◽  
Web Documents ◽  
Teaching College ◽  
The World ◽  
Potential Benefits ◽  
Ease Of Access ◽  
The Web

The potential benefits of the World Wide Web (Web) in teaching college courses in psychology stem from the wealth of information available to instructors and students, the ease of access to that information, and the hypermedia richness of Web documents. In this article, I describe the introduction of the Web into an advanced course in social psychology using activities that entailed collaboration and knowledge sharing, direct experience with information in various formats, and manipulation of information into new forms. The activities included Web Assignments associated with assigned readings, a Social Psychology and Humor project, a Social Psychology in the News project, and the development of a Web Tutorial on a social psychological topic. I discuss both the strengths and weaknesses of using the Web in this context.

scholarly journals An Evaluative Study for the Use Reality of E-Learning Systems and Tools in Teaching and Learning by Faculty Members and Students

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdulaziz Aboud Mohammed Asiri ◽  
Hassan Shawky Aly
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Learning Systems ◽  
Pedagogical Practices ◽  
Learning Tools ◽  
College Courses ◽  
Teaching College ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Very High

The present study aimed to identify the reality of E-Learning systems and tools use (Blackboard) by faculty membersand students in teaching and learning courses at the college of education at Najran University. To achieve this aim,two questionnaires for both faculty members and students were developed. A sample of (60) faculty members and(120) students were selected to take part in the present study. Findings showed that the level of Blackboard use bymale and female faculty members was either high or very high in teaching college courses to students. There was nostatistically significant difference (α=0.05) between faculty members regarding the level of E-Learning tools use andits pedagogical practices due to gender and experience. Findings also revealed that male and female students' level ofBlackboard use was very high in studying the college courses. Furthermore, there was no statistically significantdifference (α=0.05) between students regarding the use of E-Learning tools and its pedagogical practices due togender and cumulative average.

scholarly journals Drama: A Comparative Analysis of Individual Narratives

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susanna Spaulding ◽  
James Banning ◽  
Clifford Harbour ◽  
Timothy Davies
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Emotional Experience ◽  
Traditional Learning ◽  
College Courses ◽  
Teaching College ◽  
Experience Teaching ◽  
Personal Transformations ◽  
Dramatic Text ◽  
Individual Participant ◽  
The Individual

In a narrative inquiry, five educators who taught college in prison share stories about working in this non-traditional learning environment that is often dangerous and frustrating. From the tension between the prison's emphasis on social control and the educators' concern for democratic classrooms, three broad themes emerged: working in borderlands, negotiating power relations, and making personal transformations. Large intact segments from transcripts of participant interviews form a dramatic text that illuminates how a selected group of educators made meaning of their experience teaching college courses to incarcerated students. A comparative analysis presented in a one act play brings together the individual participant voices to tell a collective story, which has meaning in the context of a shared emotional experience.

Adjuncts Unite! The Struggle to Unionize, Administrative Response, and Building a Bigger Movement

2021 ◽  
pp. 0160449X2110286
Author(s):  
Christian A. I. Schlaerth
Keyword(s):  
Working Conditions ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
Higher Learning ◽  
College Courses ◽  
Service Employees ◽  
For Profit ◽  
The Past ◽  
Teaching College ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Learning

In the last decade, adjuncts have become the dominant faculty type at most colleges and universities, making up to 80 percent of those teaching college courses. Their conditions and struggles have been well documented in terms of their compensation and working conditions. Adjuncts have begun to organize across the nation, while also fighting for a broader movement, most notably through Service Employees International Union’s (SEIU) Faculty Forward Campaign, along with others. However, institutions of higher learning have been fighting back against these efforts in the same manners that for-profit companies have done in the past. This paper demonstrates the conflict as well as providing a framework for something bigger.

Beyond Prison Education

PMLA ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 123 (3) ◽  
pp. 674-677 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean Trounstine
Keyword(s):  
Prison Education ◽  
Merchant Of Venice ◽  
Education Programs ◽  
Education Department ◽  
The Merchant Of Venice ◽  
Teaching College ◽  
Women's Prison ◽  
College Classes

During my ten years teaching college classes and directing eight plays at framingham women's prison in massachusetts, I was always at odds with institutionally funded education programs behind bars. While I chose plays and ran discussions to expand thinking (The Merchant of Venice, Lysistrata, The Taming of the Shrew, Simply Maria, and Waiting for Lefty, to name a few) the unspoken aim of the education department was to reform the women—that is, to enlighten them on what society says is the “best” way to be, to teach socially accepted behavior as an antidote to crime.

scholarly journals Poetry across the Curriculum: New Methods of Writing Intensive Pedagogy for U.S. Community College and Undergraduate Education: A Book Review

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rama Cousik
Keyword(s):  
Community College ◽  
Undergraduate Education ◽  
College Courses ◽  
Basic Premise ◽  
New Methods ◽  
Teaching College

This book review presents the basic premise of the book, which is use of poetry to teach undergraduate courses. The author of the review shares her own experiences with using poetry to teach college courses and highlights the beginning chapters. The editors of the book, Frank Jacobs, Shannon Kincaid and Amy. E. Traver, and other authors share their experiences from a workshop on the use of poetry in college. Empirical and anecdotal examples do well to underscore the need for more arts-based education and particularly poetry in teaching college courses.

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