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Download full textBishop, Philip E. – 1995
This short essay along with workshop materials outlines constructive ways for Humanities teachers to stimulate discussions on religion. The activities and procedures are based on the author's own experience and philosophy. Student centered discussions are effective and less risky for engaging in religious issues. Student discussions also are the…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Community Colleges, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Humanities
Freeman, David; Freeman, Yvonne – 1988
Whole language content lessons are recommended as a means for teachers of English as a second language to help their students develop both communicative and academic competence. Whole language is an approach to teaching that relies on the principles that lessons should: (1) progress from whole to part, (2) be learner-centered, (3) have meaning and…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Communicative Competence (Languages), Course Content, Curriculum Design
Thralls, Charlotte – 1981
A theory of textual processing signals--cues to guide the response of any reader to a narrative text--can be evolved from Gerald Prince's theory of reading interludes and William Labov's work on narrative evaluation. An examination of these signals in two personal experience narratives written by students in remedial and freshman writing courses…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Higher Education, Narration, Reading Comprehension
Carney, Ginny – 1992
English instructors must discover methods that inspire culturally diverse university students to utilize intelligent reading strategies, even when students feel like inferior outcasts. A class was designed at the University of Alaska to teach reading strategies. The typical class consisted of 20-25 students ranging in age from 18 to 60 and…
Descriptors: College English, College Students, Cultural Differences, Cultural Pluralism
Wolf, Ken – 1983
Comparative biography can be used as a means of enlivening the teaching of college level interdisciplinary world civilization courses. By providing (and writing) well-written "human interest" material drawn from biographical essays, instructors can illustrate problems or issues in human life by showing how major political or cultural…
Descriptors: Biographies, Comparative Analysis, Course Content, Evaluation Criteria
Xu, Wenying – 1996
The act of reading is always interpretation through the lens of an individual's own culture and value system. In a World Literature class the encounter between American readers and a text from a different culture can produce 3 results: reading into it the individual's own world; translating the alien into the familiar; and appreciating its…
Descriptors: Cultural Context, Empathy, Higher Education, Instructional Innovation
