scholarly journals Student Perceptions of Great Teaching

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert S. Bledsoe ◽  
Deborah South Richardson ◽  
Ashley Kalle
Keyword(s):  
Student Perceptions ◽  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Iterative Process ◽  
Health Sciences ◽  
Professional Programs ◽  
Arts And Sciences ◽  
Exemplary Teaching ◽  
Liberal Arts And Sciences ◽  
Teaching Award ◽  
Instructor Characteristics

What behaviors do students consider as representative of exemplary teaching? Do those representations vary by context? This study evaluates 176 student nominations for a teaching award that asked nominators to articulate specific acts by individual instructors that exemplify “great teaching.” Through an iterative process, our content analysis identified 10 themes, which generally represent socioemotional connection, behaviors relevant to student learning, and instructor characteristics. We also identified two themes—the instructor as a model and as someone whose efforts exceed expectations—that do not appear frequently in existing literature. The quantitative analysis revealed that frequency of themes differed for instructors from traditional liberal arts and sciences disciplines and those from professional programs in the health sciences.

Writing the Liberal Arts and Sciences

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Core Values ◽  
Historical Consciousness ◽  
Intellectual Curiosity ◽  
Liberal Arts Education ◽  
Scholarly Community ◽  
Arts And Sciences ◽  
The Core ◽  
Liberal Arts And Sciences ◽  
Academic Content

Starting from informal cross-disciplinary conversations between colleagues, this volume is the result of an experiment in understanding the standpoints and methodologies of others in a multidisciplinary setting. At its heart are the core values of a liberal arts education: intellectual curiosity and the ability to communicate across borders. Written with the aim of communicating academic content to non-specialists, the essays interweave narratives about truth with various kinds of dialogue and the importance of historical consciousness. Together they illustrate the power of writing as a tool for strengthening a scholarly community.

Encyclopedists, medieval

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samuel Barnish
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Late Antiquity ◽  
Strong Influence ◽  
Arts And Sciences ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Liberal Arts And Sciences ◽  
Martianus Capella ◽  
The Middle Ages

The modern encyclopedic genre was unknown in the classical world. In the grammar-based culture of late antiquity, learned compendia, by both pagan and Christian writers, were organized around a text treated as sacred or around the canon of seven liberal arts and sciences, which were seen as preparatory to divine contemplation. Such compendia, heavily influenced by Neoplatonism, helped to unite the classical and Christian traditions and transmit learning, including Aristotelian logic, to the Middle Ages. Writers in the encyclopedic tradition include figures such as Augustine and Boethius, both of whom were extremely influential throughout the medieval period. Other important writers included Macrobius, whose Saturnalia spans a very wide range of subjects; Martianus Capella, whose De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii (The Marriage of Philology and Mercury) covers the seven liberal arts and sciences; Cassiodorus, who presents the arts as leading towards the comtemplation of the heavenly and immaterial; and Isidore, whose Etymologies became one of the most widely referred-to texts of the Middle Ages. These writers also had a strong influence which can be seen later in the period, particularly in the Carolingian Renaissance and again in the twelfth century.

scholarly journals “The Gods Must Be Crazy”: Students’ Attitudes and Dispositions as Enablers and Blockers to Internationalization

2020 ◽  
pp. 102831532096428 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Ehrhardt ◽  
Caroline Archambault
Keyword(s):  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Intercultural Learning ◽  
Course Content ◽  
Arts And Sciences ◽  
Explicit Attitudes ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Liberal Arts And Sciences ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Students Attitudes

This article argues that students’ attitudes and dispositions can be important enablers or blockers to effective internationalization of the curriculum in higher education. Using a case study of teaching African studies at a Dutch Liberal Arts and Sciences college, this article shows that students have mixed explicit attitudes toward the subject matter, but more consistent implicit dispositions that influence their understanding. Specifically, our students show strong dispositions toward agency, rationality, separation, and similarity, which clarifies some aspects of the course content but obscures others. As such, they function as both enablers and blockers to intercultural learning. Since dispositions are common among university students and relevant to a wide array of intercultural learning contexts, this study offers important insights for designing and implementing effective internationalization—in particular, the need to tailor our efforts to the specific constellation of attitudes and dispositions, the course content, and the skills of both teachers and students.

Anti-intellectualism and education reform

2020 ◽  
Vol 101 (7) ◽  
pp. 10-16
Author(s):  
Johann N. Neem
Keyword(s):  
Education Reform ◽  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Central Place ◽  
American Education ◽  
Arts And Sciences ◽  
Liberal Arts And Sciences

It is a strange and sobering experience to read Hofstadter in our own anti-intellectual era. If anything, left-leaning intellectuals’ sense of alienation has increased since the 1990s. To challenge anti-intellectualism in American education, the liberal arts and sciences will need to be restored to their central place in the curriculum.

How Well Do 158 Prospective Elementary Teachers Know Arithmetic?

1960 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 141-146
Author(s):  
Elbert Fulkerson
Keyword(s):  
Elementary Education ◽  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Number System ◽  
College Of Education ◽  
Careful Study ◽  
Arts And Sciences ◽  
Liberal Arts And Sciences ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Professional Treatment ◽  
The University

For the Past Several Years the College of Education of Southern Illinois University has required its students majoring in elementary education to take a course known as Mathematics 210, which is described in the University Bulletin as a “professional treatment of the subject matter of arithmetic methods and a study of trends and current literature on the teaching of arithmetic.” This course is offered by the Mathematics Department of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and carries four quarter hours of credit. I ts prerequisite is a general mathematics course which does not count toward a major or minor in mathematics but which does include, however, a careful study of the real number system and other topics providing a better understanding of arithmetic and elementary algebra.

scholarly journals Teaching Canadian Politics and Foreign Policy Onsite: Benefits and Challenges

2014 ◽  
Vol 47 (04) ◽  
pp. 873-876
Author(s):  
James M. McCormick
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Liberal Arts ◽  
State University ◽  
Iowa State University ◽  
Arts And Sciences ◽  
American Students ◽  
Seminar Series ◽  
Canadian Politics ◽  
Liberal Arts And Sciences

ABSTRACTThis article discusses the benefits and challenges of offering an onsite seminar on Canadian politics and foreign policy and assesses how this format contributes to achieving the goals of the 2011 APSA report,Teaching Political Science in the 21st Century. First, the author describes the development and requirements of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Global Seminar series at Iowa State University, the structure of the seminar, and its operation in Ottawa. Second, several of the pedagogical and experiential benefits, as well as the challenges, for making the seminar successful are identified and discussed. Third, by weighing these benefits and challenges, the author concludes that such a seminar has the potential to serve as an effective model for increasing an understanding of Canadian politics among American students, as well as to meet several important recommendations for improving the teaching of political science today.

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