Teaching as the Art of Staging: A Scenario-Based College Pedagogy in Action

ISBN-13: 9781620365205 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 264 str.

Anthony Weston

Opis

This book advances another and sharply different model: the Impresario with a Scenario, a teacher who serves as class mobilizer, improviser, and energizer, staging dramatic, often unexpected and self-unfolding learning challenges and adventures with students.

Recenzje

"Do you want to be a truly creative and inspiring instructor? Then you must read Weston’s Teaching as the Art of Staging. Taking 'student-centered' and 'experiential learning' to whole new levels, his innovative pedagogy relies on staging learning situations and letting your students run with them. Weston deftly demonstrates how you can become an impresario with scenarios, whatever your discipline, by drawing on his broad teaching experience in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities."

Linda B. Nilson, Director Emerita, Office of Teaching Effectiveness and Innovation

Clemson University

“For those who believe that higher education is stuck in a rut, Anthony Weston's far-ranging and provocative book offers a way out: Instructors can move beyond being energized performers ('sage on the stage') or wise facilitators ('guide on the side') and instead become 'impresarios with scenarios' who educate students by staging powerful active-learning experiences. Weston surveys scores of different 'staging' techniques and supplements them with many ingenious examples from his own classroom."

Mark C. Carnes, Professor of History, Barnard College/Columbia University and Executive Director

Reacting Consortium

Spis treści

Foreword—Peter Felten On Becoming an Impresario. A Personal Preface 1. A Different Kind of Teaching 2. Neither Sage nor Guide 3. Scenarios 4. Impresarios 5. Dimensions and Families of Scenarios 6. Daily Scenarios from my Classes 7. Adventures in Role-Playing 8. Whole-Course Scenarios 9. Under the Open Skies References Index

O autorze

Anthony Weston is a professor of philosophy and environmental studies at Elon University.

Peter Felten is Assistant Provost for Teaching and Learning, Director of the Center for Engaged Learning, and Professor of History at Elon University. His publications include: Transforming Students: Fulfilling the Promise of Higher Education (Johns Hopkins, 2014), and Engaging Students as Partners in Learning and Teaching (Jossey-Bass, 2014).