Teaching in Eden: Lessons from Cedar Point

by John Janovy, Jr.

Overview

Teaching in Eden provides any teacher with powerful and virtually free tools that he or she can use to alter the fundamental nature of the educational experience. The tools are simple instructional devices that require only a teacher's time, and the courage to break out of the existing constraints to discover and assemble the elements of an ideal instructional environment.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415946674
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/03/2003
Pages:	200
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

John Janovy, Jr. is a biological scientist who has published 10 books since 1978. He holds the Paula and D. B. Varner Distinguished Professorship at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln.

Table of Contents

PREFACE CHAPTER 1 THE INTERVIEW CHAPTER 2 THE CEDAR POINT EXPERIMENT CHAPTER 3 WHAT Is FIELD PARASITOLOGY? CHAPTER 4 THE DESIGN OF A COURSE CHAPTER 5 THE DESIGN OF A WRITING ASSIGNMENT CHAPTER 6 A PREDICTABLE SUPPLY OF MATERIAL CHAPTER 7 QUESTIONS CHAPTER 8 A PROJECT CHAPTER 9 UNDOMESTICATED SYSTEMS CHAPTER 10 DEATH AND RESURRECTION CHAPTER 11 BIG TALK AT THE WHITE GATE CHAPTER 12 BUILDING EDEN

Editorial Reviews

"[Teaching in Eden] is Janovy's attept to shake higher education by the shoulders and bring it to its senses, asking that university instruction shift its focus from content to larger questions of process and values...It should be part of any science educator's library, and most university libraries."--Great Plains Quarterly, Summer 2006

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