Engaging Ideas: The Professor's Guide to Integrating Writing, Critical Thinking, and Active Learning in the Classroom

Bean, John C./ Weimer, Maryellen (Foreward By)

ISBN 10: 0470532904 / ISBN 13: 9780470532904

Published by Jossey-Bass Inc Pub, 2011

About this Item

2nd edition. 360 pages. 11.00x8.50x1.00 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Engaging Ideas: The Professor's Guide to Integrating Writing, Critical Thinking, and Active Learning in the Classroom
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass Inc Pub
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0470532904
• ISBN 13: 9780470532904
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: Brand New

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Synopsis

Learn to design interest-provoking writing and critical thinking activities and incorporate them into your courses in a way that encourages inquiry, exploration, discussion, and debate, with Engaging Ideas, a practical nuts-and-bolts guide for teachers from any discipline. Integrating critical thinking with writing-across-the-curriculum approaches, the book shows how teachers from any discipline can incorporate these activities into their courses. This edition features new material dealing with genre and discourse community theory, quantitative/scientific literacy, blended and online learning, and other current issues.

About the Author

John C. Bean is professor of English at Seattle University. He is the author of numerous scholarly articles and the coauthor of several leading composition and argument textbooks.