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According to this book, interdisciplinary pedagogy is not synonymous with a single process, set of skills, method, or technique. Instead, it is concerned primarily with fostering in students a sense of self-authorship and a notion of knowledge that they can use to respond to complex questions, issues, or problems. Most faculty members have disciplinary terminal degrees, little preparation for teaching, and previous experience learning and teaching solely in disciplinary classroom settings. This collection is designed to assist both new and experienced faculty members who are teaching in interdisciplinary settings and who want to advance integrative learning with their students, as well as administrators who want to encourage integrative and interdisciplinary teaching in their institutions. The contributors offer many intriguing approaches for achieving the goals of interdisciplinary pedagogy. (From the Publisher)

All teachers come to the profession with high ideals but few are prepared for the challenges posed by the complexities of classroom life. How can they remain passionate and inspired in the face of the daily realities of teaching? And how can teachers engage their students in the quest to know and discover? Written by some of the most highly acclaimed teacher-writers, The Jossey-Bass Reader on Teaching includes excerpts from books, essays, and articles that explore the very heart of the teaching experience. This comprehensive resource offers a wide variety of perspectives and insights into the realities of classroom teaching. The volume's contributors are some of the best known teachers and education experts: Parker Palmer, Sylvia Ashton-Warner, William Ayers, Lisa Delpit, Robert L. Fried, Paulo Freire, Maxine Greene, Martin Haverman, Herbert Kohl, Andrew Dean Mullen, James Nehring, Vivian Gussin Paley, Vito Perrone, Mike Rose, Seymour Sarason, and Frank Smith. The nineteen chapters in this stellar collection explore the challenges and joys of teaching and cover three main topics: the meaning of teaching, the experience of teaching, and the art of teaching skills. In addition, the book presents concrete ideas for developing a variety of strategies for providing opportunities for students to become involved in doing schoolwork themselves and for engaging students in meaningful projects. Learning to teach is a lifetime affair involving constantly changing complexities of context, curriculum, and the communities of students; this book guides teachers to become passionate, dedicated, and purposeful.

Awakening Minds is an invitation to change. It brings a creative spirit to education through experiences that expand awareness, lead to new choices, and cultivate change. Discover how teaching can serve your life purposes and how creative thinking surprises the mind so novel ideas come quickly. Learn to use "deep listening," "strategic questioning," and "effective coaching" to increase your effectiveness as a teacher and make education more of an adventure. Develop innovative learning exercises that capture the attention of students and cultivate their full participation. (From the Publisher)

Companion piece to "Missing Connections." This guide provides step-by-step assistance for theological schools that want to conduct perceptions studies in their cities or region. A perception study is an organized way of finding out how others look at an institution.

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Prayer occurs when God's people, individually or collectively, enter into God's presence. Simple as that sounds, it is rarely simple for authentic prayer to occur in the context of Christian worship. Surrounded by distracting sights and sounds from without, and distracting thoughts and emotions from within, we enter too infrequently into the genuine spirit of prayer in corporate worship. The worship leader, therefore, has a set task. It is to usher us as close as possible to the vortex of genuine prayer, where we may be drawn in and overcome by the sense of God's being. Words must be used--and silence as well--to bait, cajole, and tease the mind into communion with the Divine Spirit. The prayers in this book are offered as an attempt to make prayer a greater reality for Christian congregations. The reader will find in these pages calls to worship, opening prayers, affirmations of faith, confessions, offeratory prayers, pastoral prayers, and benedictions. Written with the poetic language and spiritual insight that are John Killinger's trademarks, Lost in Wonder, Love, and Praise will be an essential resource for all those who plan and lead worship. (From the Publisher)

We learn by asking questions. We learn better by asking better questions. We learn more by having opportunities to ask more questions. The aim of this book is to help both teachers and students develop their questioning skills in order to share in the process of inquiry. "Teaching, Questioning and Learning" offers teachers practical suggestions, illustrated with examples from classroom experience, based upon current educational thinking. Part one sets out the reasons for the limited effectiveness of questions in present classroom, and examines the two structures which form the matrix of all educational processes: the structure for thinking and the structure for feeling. Part two looks at a simple three-part classification of general functions for questions: those which tap into what is already known and which elicit a sense of responsibility towards the conduct of and approach to the work: those which build a context for shared understanding: and those which challenge students to think critically and creatively for themselves. Part three looks at classroom discourse and the techniques which promote an environment for talk. (From the Publisher)

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Rather than focus on technology to extend the reach of higher education—distance learning—Weigel favors its use in conjunction with classroom-based experiences to promote "depth education"—the use of collaborative virtual spaces, called "knowledge rooms," in which virtual teams of students work together to build skills in critical thinking and knowledge management. Weigel explains the concept of depth education, outlines the campus infrastructure requirements of depth education, explains how to use the knowledge room framework, and discusses educational vistas made possible by e- learning. The author teaches ethics and economic development at Eastern College in St. David's, Pennsylvania. (From the Publisher)

PBS Home Video. From the Producer Ground Zero in Manhattan has become a site of pilgrimage. Thousands of people visit the site, looking for consolation and questioning the events of September 11. There is a profound quiet to their meditations. Starting here, FRONTLINE sets out on a quest to find out how peoples' faith has been challenged, and how they are coping with difficult questions of good and evil, religion and apostasy, and the frailty of human life.