October 2005 - Posts
What knowledge or skills will students need most to be effective citizens of our world in the future? In ancient Greece, most advanced students studied philosophy in order to achieve “wisdom.” (The term philosophy in Greek means “lover of wisdom.”) In
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The NEFDC (New England Faculty Development Consortium) fall conference will take place November 4, 2005 at the Westford Regency Conference Center, Westford, Massachusetts. The conference is entitled “Beyond Tolerance: Diversity and the Challenge of Pedagogy
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Sociology and Cultural Anthropology Professor Binnur Ercem (Middlesex Community College) took our Educational Question of the Year project into her classroom and surveyed 100 students. After reviewing their responses she divided the student comments into
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