Provides a detailed description of the incorporation of constructivist, active, cooperative teaching strategies in a chemistry class. (EV)

Explores whether there are good educational reasons for the popularity of online education, asserting that perhaps the same issues are at stake as are found in "The Music Man"--business at the heart of education. (EV)

Discusses personal teaching experiences to explore issues of the theory and practice of teaching. Explores the application of behaviorism, cognitive theory, and sociocultural theories such as those of Vygotsky to changing classroom environments, and stresses the need for teaching practice to be organized and illuminated by theories. (EV)

Discusses basic writing pioneer Mina Shaughnessy, who advocated for a humanistic approach to writing instruction for disadvantaged students, within the context of the City University of New York's policy of open admissions. (EV)

Describes how time spent immersed in Talmudic studies at yeshivahs in the United States and Israel had a profound effect on this professor's understanding of the delicate art of teaching, in particular promoting the love of learning for its own sake and fostering respect among students. (EV)

Explores the apparently disparate link between successfully hosting a talk show and successfully teaching a college class and describes methods this professor has used to foster class discussion and student interest. (EV)

Explores the ongoing, complex, and difficult task of trying to inspire students. Discusses some of a teacher's first steps toward learning how to inspire, including a good will toward students, a trust in the significance of the momentary encounter, and a confidence in the significance of the subject and passionate attachment to its truths. (EV)

Describes using the case method of teaching in a sociology class. The case method is a student-centered, highly interactive pedagogy that changes the classroom process into a collaborative search for an analysis and solution to a specific problem based on a case (a text that provides information about a situation without analyzing it). (EV)

Explores how cultural studies have bred a new type of academic, the public intellectual. Their goal is to make more elastic the boundaries between disciplines and between academe and the public sphere, bringing together certain critical and pedagogical discourses that traditionally have been kept apart. (EV)

Using the Alhambra 2000 conference as a starting point (the conference explored the contributions of Arab cultures to current knowledge of mathematics), explores how the cultural and intellectual success of Moorish Spain was rooted in its embrace of diversity, providing a lesson for U.S. education and society in general. (EV)

Discusses the need for research scientists to come out of their labs and establish links with communities and the need for scientists of color who can better gain access to the communities most often affected by problems such as environmental hazards. Describes ways to encourage this reaching out and breaking of stereotypes about scientists among…

Explores why faculty at Illinois State University rejected unionization. Highlights some lessons from the unionization effort by examining dynamics of the organizing campaign from the first meeting in July 1998 until the representation election in March 2000. (EV)

Describes early intervention programs designed to encourage later college attendance. The programs provide disadvantaged students with the opportunity to develop skills, knowledge, confidence, aspirations, and overall preparedness for college early enough in their schooling to influence their ultimate educational attainment levels. Discusses…

Explores the often difficult but ultimately rewarding experience of being a tenure-seeking film professor at California State University. Describes a brutal workload, balancing the demands of motherhood and career advancement, and making a documentary film about the earthquake that destroyed the campus. (EV)

Describes an approach to faculty development that relies on faculty learning from one another through peer observation. Rather than equating such observation with evaluating a colleague's performance, faculty observers are urged to approach the assignment as "students of teaching." (DB)