Engaging Ideas
Author | : John C. Bean |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 309 |
Release | : 2011-07-20 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781118062333 |
ISBN-13 | : 1118062337 |
Rating | : 4/5 (33 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: Learn to design interest-provoking writing and critical thinking activities and incorporate them into your courses in a way that encourages inquiry, exploration, discussion, and debate, with Engaging Ideas, a practical nuts-and-bolts guide for teachers from any discipline. Integrating critical thinking with writing-across-the-curriculum approaches, the book shows how teachers from any discipline can incorporate these activities into their courses. This edition features new material dealing with genre and discourse community theory, quantitative/scientific literacy, blended and online learning, and other current issues.