New Paradigms for College Teaching

edited by Wm. E. Campbell and Karl A. Smith
Interaction Book Co., Edina, MN: phone 612/831-9500, FAX 612/831-9332
List price: $20.00

This book is meant for faculty searching for new ways to teach, for alternatives to the traditional lecture method we all learned in graduate school. We include chapters on a variety of ways teachers can connect with their students and help them learn: cooperative learning, writing-across-the-curriculum, active learning, learning communities, and so on. Each of these methodologies is described exhaustively elsewhere, in books and journals and at conferences. This book brings brief discussions of them together in one accessible volume, with references to sources where readers can learn more.

Contents:
Wm. E. CampbellIntroduction
Parker PalmerThe Renewal of Community in Higher Education
Nel NoddingsThe Use of Stories in Teaching
Wendy Bishop & Toby Fulwiler The Braiding of Classroom Voices: Learning to Write by Learning to Learn
Craig NelsonTools for Tampering with Teaching's Taboos
Terrence CollinsFor Openers . . . An Inclusive Course Syllabus
Edward B. NuhferStudent Management Teams--The Heretic's Path to Teaching Success
Donald G. Dansereau & Dianna Newbern Using Knowledge Maps to Enhance Excellence
Tom CreedExtending the Classroom Walls Electronically
Karl A. Smith & Alisha Waller Cooperative Learning for New Teachers
David W. Johnson & Roger T. Johnson Academic Controversy: Increase Intellectual Conflict and Increase the Quality of Learning
Valerie Ann BystromGetting it Together: Learning Communities
Karl A. Smith & Alisha Waller Afterword: New Paradigms for College Teaching

Wm. E. Campbell is Director of Grants & Research, University of Wisconsin-River Falls.

Karl A. Smith is Professor of Civil Engineering, University of Minnesota.