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Download full textGale, Richard – Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 2004
The writer examines the goals, methods, contexts, and outcomes of liberal education, as seen through the lens of the seminar experience. Originally a forum for advanced graduate students, the seminar has become a central feature of undergraduate education and signature pedagogy of liberal learning. Sometimes described in terms of size,…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Graduate Study, Seminars, Liberal Arts
Peer reviewedJohnson, Lesley; Lee, Alison; Green, Bill – Studies in Higher Education, 2000
Explores ideas of autonomy and the independent scholar that underpin traditional practices of postgraduate pedagogy, particularly PhD programs in the humanities and social sciences. Finds practices underlain by the gendered nature of ideas of autonomy and the paradoxical nature of the processes intended to produce the autonomous scholar self.…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Educational Methods, Graduate Study, Higher Education
