December 27, 2010
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In the fall of 1996 in Columbus, Ohio I attended the meetings of the International Society for Exploring Teaching Alternatives (ISETA) for the first time. I was encouraged to connect with this group after “experiencing” a presentation by the current … Continue reading
December 26, 2010
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One-on-one consultations within a group that meets over an extended period (aka Workshop “Office Hours”)—an alternative to the ad hoc, and clique-prone discussions that often happen between the sessions at conferences and workshops This activity can be slotted into a … Continue reading
December 14, 2010
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Through her basic and applied research, sociologist Denise Lach illuminates a wide range of environment and resource issues (including water, forest, fish, and bioremediation), from an unusually rich combination of angles, with dissemination to a range of outlets and audiences … Continue reading
December 8, 2010
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Problem-Based Learning (PBL) begins from a Scenario in which the problems are not well defined*, Students brainstorm so as to identify a range of problems related to the scenario and choose which of these they want to investigate and report … Continue reading
December 7, 2010
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The Gallery Walk is an icebreaker activity that exemplifies the principles that people already know a lot, including knowing what they need to learn, and, if this knowledge is elicited and affirmed, they become better at learning from others. As … Continue reading
December 6, 2010
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Participants can learn about the dialogue process on the spot, with no prior preparation or introductory lecture, by following this script (which borrows from a script by Allyn Bradford (2001); see also Isaacs, W. 1999. Dialogue. NY: Currency, and a … Continue reading
December 2, 2010
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Mechanics for indexing using a “pseudo-book” Virtues # Much quicker than using index cards. # In edited volumes, the work can be distributed among the contributing authors. # No rush when you get the proofs, because most of the work … Continue reading
November 30, 2010
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During the 1960s Bookchin (1962), Carson (1962), and Commoner (1963; 1971) linked ecology-as-social-action to criticisms of the dominant directions of scientific research. Social responsibility in science was promoted by the British Society for Social Responsibility in Science, the Union of … Continue reading
November 29, 2010
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Since 1999 I have used Emily Calhoun’s 1994 book Action Research in the Self-Renewing School in a graduate course that has evolved and changed its name from Educational Evaluation to Evaluation of Educational Change to Action Research for Educational, Professional, … Continue reading
November 25, 2010
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In the late 1980s Roberto Mangabeira Unger laid out a “constructive social theory,” which centered on “institutional and imaginative frameworks of social life [that] supply the basis on which people define and reconcile interests, identify, and solve problems.” He went … Continue reading