Download or read book Teaching for Excellence Honors Pedagogies revealed written by Marca V.C. Wolfensberger and published by Waxmann Verlag. This book was released on 2012 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What exactly are the characteristics of honors pedagogy? What are the teaching strategies that are particularly relevant and successful for academically gifted and motivated students? In spite of the substantial body of literature about the practice of honors education, largely referring to the United States, very little systematic and empirical research has been done about honors pedagogy. This study contributes to a better understanding of honors pedagogies, focusing not just on what might distinguish honors teaching and learning from standard expectations and methodologies but also on how honors pedagogy offers both instructors and students an opportunity to fundamentally rethink their philosophy of education. The present study points out the similar and different approaches and dispositions in American and Dutch honors teaching. Cultural differences, distinctive educational systems, and diverse priorities play a role in defining both the shared and unique perspectives on honors education in both countries. Therefore, a baseline comparison is made between American and Dutch honors teachers with respect to their teaching strategies.

Download or read book Honors Education around the World written by Graeme Harper and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is constructed around several significant questions, relevant to every honors program and national perspective. These questions are: “How do various nations view honors education?”, “How do ideas about honors achievements compare internationally?”, “Who defines honors education in each nation and how similar are those definitions from place to place?”, and “What do nations consider most significant when an undergraduate is said to “graduate with honors”?” The cross-disciplinary, intersecting epistemology of honors education stands out worldwide. No matter whether it is known as “honors”, “honours” or “talent-development”, honors education is associated with a student-centric ethos of attainment-setting, and with comprehensive and often creative approaches to teaching and learning. Today, in our more globally connected world, there is good reason to closely and critically consider how an exploration of honors education worldwide can empower both educators and students to match personal and communal aspirations with educational outcomes.

Download or read book Excellence Innovation and Ingenuity in Honors Education written by Graeme Harper and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-04-05 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does the pursuit of an undergraduate honors education support excellence, innovation and ingenuity? This book offers examples of these things as they occur in honors colleges and programs throughout the USA. However, it additionally throws light on questions of how education generally (and in this case, particularly higher education) impacts on what we can do to contribute to our pool of human knowledge, to support individual and social aspiration, to empower creativity and invention, and, indeed, to make positive individual and communal futures through education. In many ways, the writers here explore the contribution of honors education to the world beyond honors. Equally, they are investigating honors education, from the inside, and contemplating how they can make this aspect of education fundamentally a home of innovative and ingenious practices. The range of discussion in this book stretches from considering active engagement with the global to enhancing approaches to leadership and leadership cultivation, and from applying distinctive styles of thinking to embracing and developing outstanding types of community partnerships. The volume discusses what those in honors education are doing to live up to the promise the ideal of “honors” popularizes and is said to exemplify.

Download or read book Honors Composition written by Annmarie Guzy and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annmarie Guzy realized she had some concerns about teaching honors courses as she prepared to teach at the same University where she had been an honors student herself. She enrolled in a summer seminar on teaching basic writing in order to expand her teaching horizons beyond the honors student mentality, and to address some of her concerns and possible prejudices developed during her own honors experience. Reading about students who cared a great deal about their academic performance but who were truly struggling to build their writing skills not only made her more appreciative of her own abilities with writing, but also caused her to think about composition pedagogy in different ways. How had the educational system failed these students? How had common pedagogical practice failed these students? How early in their academic careers had these students been written off by faculty, by administrators, and eventually by themselves? She found that the actual grouping and labeling of basic writers and basic writing particularly interested her. For example, concepts such as diagnosing writing problems, offering remedial course work, and curing writers' difficulties revolve around medical terminology. At one level, these terms suggest that writing problems are a symbolic type of illness for which students come to the composition course and/or to the writing lab to be "cured," but at a deeper level, these terms imply that something is fundamentally wrong with the student if he or she cannot write in the manner that the institution (another medical reference) deems acceptable. While focusing on the grouping and labeling of basic writers, Guzy began to make connections between basic writing and honors education. Students at the upper end of the academic spectrum are also grouped and labeled, and these labels change over the course of a student's education: elementary school children are "gifted," "talented," or "exceptional," and as they progress through high school and college, they become "honors students." These labels and the programs that they represent carry with them certain advantages (e.g., specialized curriculum, extracurricular opportunities, and increased funding), but these students are still removed from the educational norm, just as remedial students are--they go to different classrooms, they read different textbooks, and they complete different exercises. Although these consequences are preferable to those that students labeled "remedial" must endure, they still affect students negatively, and the negative effect of labeling is an important similarity between basic writers and honors students. To further explore this similarity, Guzy began researching the labeling and grouping of composition students at both ends of the education spectrum at the university level, and was surprised and disappointed by the dearth of material about honors composition at the university level. She discovered that, for whatever reason, research on university-level honors composition is quite limited. This project begins to address this dearth in research by answering basic questions about composition courses and other types of written communication projects commonly found within contemporary honors programs. This monograph contains the following chapters: Chapter 1: Why Should We Research Honor Composition?; Chapter 2: Twentieth-Century Developments in Honors Education and Composition Instruction; Chapter 3: A Survey of Writing Courses and Projects in the Contemporary Honors Program; Chapter 4: Guidelines and Suggestions for Honors Composition Courses and Projects; and Chapter 5: Conclusion. Appended are the following: (1) The Sixteen Major Features of a Full Honors Program; (2) Cover Letter to Questionnaire for NCHC Member Programs; (3) Questionnaire for NCHC Member Programs; (4) Question Bank for Follow-Up Interviews; (5) Honors Thesis Rationale and Support for Azusa Pacific University; (6) List of Follow-Up Interview Participants.

Download or read book Honors Composition written by Annmarie Guzy and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Honors Composition: Historical Perspectives and Contemporary Practices details the results of a study of parallel historical developments in honors and composition studies and contemporary honors writing projects ranging from admission essays to these as reported by over 300 NCHC members.

Download or read book Defining a Discipline written by Jeannette A. Bastian and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Honors Courses in American Colleges and Universities written by Frank Aydelotte and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Advancing Honors Education for Today and Tomorrow written by Graeme Harper and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2024-07-30 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Higher education, further education, vocational education and continuing education all refer to progression to a third educational step. That is, a step beyond secondary education, which itself is a step beyond elementary or primary education. While optional, continuing beyond secondary education most often suggests some form of need ‘to acquire advanced knowledge’. But advanced in what way? Advanced in focus? Advanced in depth? Advanced in application? Advanced in the range of knowledge of those who teach in it? Advanced in expectation? Honors education, which is present globally and is highlighted in the United States through a distinctive 100-year history, has reflected on, and continues to reflect on what ‘advanced’ higher education might entail. Consequently, here in Advancing Honors Education for Today and Tomorrow contributors consider some of the interests that strike them as significant in the present and future of advanced learning.

Download or read book Honors Education and the Foundation of Fairness written by Graeme Harper and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2021-05-06 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can we support, develop and maintain higher education programs that focus on high academic achievement, while at the same time allowing equitable access to, and progress in, higher learning? This volume focuses not only on a diverse population in higher education, but on creating and supporting a population fundamentally created in, and informed by, fairness. The nature of fairness, and its many dimensions, underpins the discussions here. By focusing on equity, the contributors to this book shine light on conditions and instances of inequity. They explore questions of enrollment in honors programs, and about advising honors students. They discuss people with disabilities in honors programs and colleges, and the general existence or non-existence of civility. They advocate for supporting a wide range of identities and goals, collaboration, and types and styles of pedagogy.. This book considers the role of honors education in enhancing the educational opportunities for all, and presents a call to action to those who seek to do that.

Download or read book Honors Research written by Reta Daum and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Bulletin written by National Research Council (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Student Guide to Writing an Undergraduate Psychology Honors Thesis written by Ross Seligman and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-11-21 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Student Guide to Writing an Undergraduate Psychology Honors Thesis takes students through the entire process of creating a full-scale research project, from selecting a topic, choosing an experimental or correlational design, to writing and presenting their paper. The book offers valuable guidance on developing broader skills like communicating with your supervisor, time management and critical writing skills. Chapters cover topics such as mentor selection, collecting journal articles, gathering and analysing data, and writing a full APA or BPS experimental paper and will orientate and guide psychology students as they navigate the expected components of an honors thesis. Designed for any student that is currently working on an independent research project, A Student Guide to Writing an Undergraduate Psychology Honors Thesis is the perfect companion for those working on their senior honours thesis in psychology.

Download or read book Continuity and Innovation in Honors College Curricula written by Robert Grover and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-08-22 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Continuity and Innovation in Honors College Curricula is the second volume in the edited series Honors Education in Transition, which examines the proliferation of honors programs and colleges in American higher education. While honors education has become ubiquitous in American higher education, this transformation has happened without systematic attempts to align what honors means across institutions, and absent a universally agreed upon definitions of what honors is and what it might aspire to be in the future. This generates possibility and flexibility, while also creating rather serious challenges. This book examines dynamic attempts to think creatively about curriculum, a hallmark of honors in higher education. The authors document and discuss innovative attempts ranging from service-learning to international education to innovative ways to blend disciplinary models of pedagogy with honors teaching. Throughout, their investigations are grounded in the present while turning a keen and perceptive eye to the future.

Download or read book Minority Access to Research Careers Program written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Oakeshott written by Efraim Podoksik and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-06-07 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A systematic and accessible presentation of the ideas of one of the leading British philosophers of the twentieth century.

Download or read book Michael Oakeshott on Religion Aesthetics and Politics written by Elizabeth Campbell Corey and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Argues that Oakeshott's views on aesthetics, religion, and morality, which she places in the Augustinian tradition, are intimately linked to a creative moral personality that underlies his political theorizing. Also compares Oakeshott's Rationalism to Voegelin's concept of Gnosticism and considers both thinkers' treatment of Hobbes to delineate their philosophical differences"--Provided by publisher.

Download or read book Indigenous Audibilities written by Amanda Minks and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the middle decades of the twentieth century, transnational networks sparked a range of cultural projects focused on collecting Indigenous music and folklore in the Americas. Indigenous Audibilities follows the social relations that created these collections in four interconnected case studies linking the U.S., Mexico, Nicaragua, and Chile. Indigenous collections were embedded in political projects that negotiated issues of cultural diplomacy, national canons, and heritage. The case studies recuperate the traces of marginalized voices in archives, paying special attention to female researchers and Indigenous collaborators. Despite the dominant agendas of national and international institutions, the diverse actors and the multi-directional influences often created unexpected outcomes. The book brings together theories of collection, voice, media, writing, and recording to challenge the transparency of archives as a historical source. Indigenous Audibilities presents a social-historical method of listening, reading, and thinking beyond the referentiality of archived texts, and in the process uncovers neglected genealogies of cultural music research in the Americas"--