Teaching the “Family History” Through Group Reflection

Teaching Negotiation Skills through Practice and Reflection with Virtual Humans

Although representation of physical environments and behaviors will continue to play an important role in simulation-based training, an emerging challenge is representation of virtual humans with rich mental models (e.g., including emotions, trust) that interact through conversational behaviors as well as physical ones. The motivation for such simulations is training soft-skills such as leaders...

Reflective Teaching: Improving Library Instruction Through Self-Reflection

The Reflection for Multimedia Teaching

Today, multimedia teaching has been extensive used in teaching. Multimedia teaching has the advantages that traditional teaching model can’t compare with. But we should avoid the disadvantages as well. Based on analysis of the disadvantages of multimedia teaching, we made some suggestions on applying it in teaching in this paper.

Filming eugenics: teaching the history of eugenics through film.

In teaching eugenics to undergraduate students and general public audiences, film should he considered as a provocative and fruitful medium that can generate important discussions about the intersections among eugenics, gender, class, race, and sexuality. This paper considers the use of two films, A Bill of Divorcement and The Lynchburg Story, as pedagogical tools for the history of eugenics. T...

Teaching Critical Reflection

The concepts and methods of anthropology provide an ideal framework for community service learning. Consider the central elements of an anthropological approach: 1) emphasizing community engagement through participant-observation; 2) understanding social justice issues through an analysis of class structures; 3) promoting social change by understanding power distribution; and 4) using critical ...