Voices from the Classroom: Reflections on Teaching and Learning in HigherEducation
Janice Newton, Jerry Ginsburg, Jan Rehner, Pat Rogers, Susan Sbrizzi and John Spencer,
Volume 10 Number 3 (April 2001)

Edited by Janice Newton, Jerry Ginsburg, Jan Rehner, Pat Rogers, Susan Sbrizzi and John Spencer, (2001) Garamond Press, Toronto, 376 pages, $29.95 distributed by the York Bookstore.

Section I, Power, Diversity and Equity in the Classroom, examines power, gender, race, feminist pedagogy, heterosexism, disability, adult education, and teaching English as a second language.

Section II, Theories and Models of Student Learning, introduces several different theories of learning, and how theories of learning can inform our teaching practices.

Section III, Course Design, introduces issues in course design from the sciences and the humanities.

Section IV, Working with Graduate Students, highlights two dimensions of the graduate learning experience: as students in a discipline and as apprentice teachers.

Section V, Academic Honesty, focuses different ways to understand issues of academic integrity, and teaching to prevent academic dishonesty in different settings.

Section VI, Teaching and Learning Strategies, covers a broad range of teaching strategies, including lecturing, seminars, tutorials and group learning.

Section VII, Assignments and Evaluation, offers ideas on a variety of assignments, as well as a section on grading and evaluation in different disciplinary contexts.

Section VIII, Developing and Assessing your Teaching, describes ways to obtain feedback on teaching performance from students and colleagues, and includes a Teaching Evaluation Guide and a Teaching Documentation Guide.