Introduction The United States is a diverse country with constantly changing demographics. In 1980, the U.S. was 83.1 percent White, 11.7 percent Black and 6.4 percent Hispanic. Over a quarter of a century later, the U.S. Census documents that 75.0 percent of the population of the United States is White, 12.4 percent is Black or African American, and 15.4 percent is Hispanic or Latino (U.S. Dep...

In this article, I tried to reflect the necessity of acquired knowledge of every teacher concerning pedagogy to perform in his/her teaching profession so effectively. The word teaching is a simple word but its meaning or significant is not so and the term effective teaching demands various integrated activities in teaching-learning system. Pedagogy is the art and as well as science of teaching....

The purpose of this study was to examine the importance of all four components of the National Community Service and Trust Act’s definition of service learning, to assess the effects of service learning pedagogy on college students, and to further the research of service learning. More specifically, this study focused on how civic responsibility is affected by the inclusion of the other three c...

Problem-based learning, process-oriented guided inquiry learning, and peer-led team learning are student-centered, active-learning pedagogies commonly used in science education. The characteristic features of each are compared and contrasted to enable new practitioners to decide which approach or combination of approaches will suit their particular situation.

Our Department has been involved in a major review of our Level I Chemistry subject over the past 3-5 years. The reasons for the review included a realisation that both staff and students needed to be aware of new paradigms in learning and teaching and that changes in pedagogy would necessitate changes in the presentation format of subjects as well as their method of assessment. Rapid changes i...