Category Archives: Readings

Apr 30 | Teaching “integrative” thinking

Assigned Readings


Suggestions for Further Reading


Resources

Apr 9 | Teaching information literacy for the 21st century

Assigned readings

  • Borgman, Christine.  ”Chapter 1: Scholarship at a Crossroads.”  In Scholarship in the Digital Age: Information, Infrastructure, and the Internet.  Cambridge: MIT Press, 2007. (attached to the email announcement).
  • Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education.”  Association of College and Research Libraries, 2000.

 

Suggestions for further reading

Mar 19 | Teaching Global Learning: Theory & Practice

Assigned readings


Suggestions for further reading

  •  Hovland, Kevin Shared Futures: Global Learning & Liberal EducationAmerican Association of Colleges & Universities, 2009.  Especially relevant are chapters 2 & 3, which provide concrete examples of how colleges and universities are (and aren’t) enacting global learning in their curricula.
  • Anderson, Chad and David Blair. “Developing a Global Learning Rubric: Strengthening Teaching and Improving Learning.”  Diversity & Democracy 16 (2013).

 

Feb 19 | Teaching Quantitative Literacy Across the Curriculum

Assigned Readings

  • The Preface – “Mathematics, Numeracy, and Democracy” (xiii-xix) + Chapter 1:  “The Case for Quantitative Literacy,” (1-19) from Mathematics and Democracy (2001).
  • Wolfe, Joanna.  “Rhetorical Numbers: A Case for Quantitative Writing in the Composition Classroom.”  College Composition and Communication 61 (2010): 434-457.
  • AAC&U VALUE Rubric for Quantitative Literacy


Suggestions for Further Reading

  • The St. Edward’s Proposal for QL project, as submitted to the NSF in 2012.  (2 pgs).
  • Madison, Bernard & Lynn Steen, eds. Quantitative Literacy: Why Numeracy Matters for Schools and Colleges. National Council on Education and the Disciplines, 2003.

 

Feb 5 | What Is It That Students Ought to Learn in College?

Assigned Reading

 . . . for further reading (available upon request)

  • Bok, Derek.  “Ch. 8: What to Learn.”  In Higher Education in America. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2013.
  • Cazden, Courtney; Cope, Bill; Fairclough, Norman; Gee, Jim; et al. “A Pedagogy of Multiliteracies: Designing Social Futures.”  Harvard Educational Review 66 (1996): 60-92).
  • Davis, Rebecca Frost.  “Learning Outcomes for a Globally Networked World.”  Rebecca Frost Davis’s blog: Liberal Education in a Networked World. 7 Feb 2013.

 

Think / Pair / Share Activity

  • Mark:  Place an “X” next to items that are taught in our gen ed requirements.  Place an “O” next to items that are taught in your major.  (You will see an “XO next to items that are taught in both places).
  • Discuss:  In what areas are St. Ed’s grads getting best prepared, and where may they be lacking?
  • Consider: Is anything missing? Is anything listed unnecessarily? Should anything be reframed?