Educating for Change: A Teacher Has Second Thoughts.

Reinsmith, William A.

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ERIC Number: EJ356950

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Publication Date: 1987

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Educating for Change: A Teacher Has Second Thoughts.

Reinsmith, William A.

College Teaching, v35 n3 p83-88 Sum 1987

Humanities courses in the discussion format can clarify existential problems of the human condition that face students. The craft of teaching lies in assisting the learner out of ignorance into an increased awareness of what it means to be humanly alive. The teacher as catalyst is described. (MLW)

Descriptors: Change, College Instruction, College Students, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Ethics, Higher Education, Humanities, Philosophy, Social Values, Student Attitudes, Student Development, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Responsibility, Teacher Role, Teacher Student Relationship, Values

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers

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Audience: Practitioners

Language: English

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