Engaging Ideas: The Professor's Guide to Integrating Writing, Critical Thinking, and Active Learning in the Classroom (Jossey-Bass Higher and Adult Education)

Engaging Ideas: The Professor's Guide to Integrating Writing, Critical Thinking, and Active Learning in the Classroom (Jossey-Bass Higher and Adult Education)

by JohnC.Bean (Author)

Synopsis

A practical nuts and bolts guide for teachers from any discipline who want to design interest-provoking writing and critical thinking activities. Engaging Ideas: * Shows how teachers can encourage inquiry, exploration, discussion, and debate in their courses. * Presents a wide variety of strategies for stimulating active learning and for coaching writing and critical thinking. * Offers teachers concrete advice on how to design courses, structure assignment, use class time, critique student performance, and model critical thinking activities. * Demonstrates how writing can easily be integrated with such other critical thinking activities and inquiry discussions, simulation games, classroom debates, and interactive lectures.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 282
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Jossey Bass
Published: 13 Mar 1996

ISBN 10: 0787902039
ISBN 13: 9780787902032

Media Reviews
John Bean's book is aptly named. The ideas in it are engaging; they engage the audience, the college professor, in thinking and rethinking the ways in which writing can be used to stimulate thinking and learning in any discipline.... Bean's style is clear, to the point, and jargon-free. He explains theories of learning and writing with such lucidity that readers see clearly the implications for teaching. (National Writing Project)
Author Bio
JOHN C. BEAN is professor of English at Seattle University, where he directs the writing program and chairs the Task Force on Teaching and Learning. He is coauthor (with John D. Ramage) of Writing Arguments (3rd ed., 1995) and Form and Surprise in Composition (1986).