Literary case studies do not offer solutions to problems but allow readers to engage in life with other human beings and empathize, understand, and share responses with others. This involvement and willingness to admit human frailty and vulnerability provide a type of learning for prospective teachers not found in pedagogical textbooks. (five…

The case method should be used in both preservice and inservice training for administrators to strengthen training programs and help administrators develop practical human relations skills, learn stress reduction and burnout prevention strategies, learn team-building, and develop critical and reflective thinking skills. (14 references) (MLH)

The reflective inquiry approach to teacher preparation is based on analysis of teaching "cases" and is particularly relevant for teachers in Alaska's rural multicultural schools. Students learn to ask ethical as well as pedagogical questions and to reflect upon larger issues imbedded in the details of school life. (Author/SV)

Presents reasons for teaching journalism students how to read and analyze legal cases. Discusses teaching case analysis, and lists a few applications for the case-reading exercise in journalism classes. (SR)

Analyzed case dilemmas written by elementary student teachers for the nature of dilemmas and solutions. The most frequent types of dilemmas they posed concerned disruptive individual students, whole-group management, and difficulty encountered while implementing cooperative learning. The most common solutions involved using a behavioral strategy.…

Analyzes cases published in the March 1998 special issue of this journal and contrasts them with results of a survey of 25 employees regarding the kinds of writing that are important to successful performance at work. Finds the cases involve exceptional rhetorical situations when in reality the rhetorical situations business writers usually face…

Details how an American-based behavioral simulation (a form of case study) was adapted for an organizational and management communication course in Hong Kong. Describes how the authors accommodated students' language environment and proficiency, their culturally derived behaviors, and their understanding of the context of American business, making…

Describes a teaching strategy used in undergraduate reading/language arts methods classes that combines methods from case-based instruction and reader response to literature by using literature case studies--novels that contain school-based events and characters. Offers entries from undergraduate education students' literature logs to describe the…

Presents a case study for use in business communication classes to help students understand and learn both the context and the strategies for communication with business and management. Deals with a Los Angeles firm's attempt to expeditiously negotiate entrance of business into China, and discusses miscommunications on both sides. Includes five…

Discusses the basis of a classification scheme for types of case studies. Four major classification headings are identified: (1) individual assignment; (2) lecture; (3) discussion; and (4) small group activities. Describes each heading from the point of view of several teaching methods. (DDR)

Discusses the use of case study methods and describes the design and development of a Web-based instructional design case competition at the University of Virginia. Reports on the benefits of the competition for developing expertise and preparation for professional practice, opportunities for team collaboration, and future development activities.…

Describes a case study approach to acquaintance rape used in a Personal Health and Lifestyles course at the University of Nevada in Reno that allows students to discuss the characters in a scenario, an instructional process seen as less threatening than describing personal experiences. (MDM)

Illustrates the way case stories can be used as a professional development tool for promoting collaborative leadership and creating pluralistic leaders in higher education--leaders who respond to and embrace the diversity within the community, staff, faculty, and administration. (EV)

A teacher education field-based course undertook to foster the beliefs and practices of 28 elementary preservice teachers on inclusion. Candidates discussed dilemma cases about experiences with inclusion in communities of practice, on-campus, and in schools. Themes indicated maintaining a critical stance, questioning one's own assumptions, and…

In three related studies, (1) a corporation gave management students a workplace problem for solution; (2) management students conducted a service-learning project in the nonprofit sector; and (3) students consulted on a small business supervisory problem. Experiential learning resulted in more student satisfaction, higher realism, and greater…