Learning-centered syllabus

Posted on April 22nd, 2004 by Sacha Chua

http://www.cte.iastate.edu/tips/syllabi.html

(Nice page!)

I should expose my students to these questions. We've missed out on them so far.

- How do we think in this discipline? - How do we organize knowledge, add to the knowledge base, recognize and test new knowledge? - What is our philosophical base? - How do we approach questions of ethics? - With what theoretical questions are we most concerned?

- How do we use knowledge in the discipline? - How do we apply what we know? - How do we recognize unmet needs? - How does this discipline make the world a better place? - With what other disciplines do we interact?

- What stimulates our enthusiasm? - How do people in our discipline rejuvenate our interest or intellectual involvement? - What are our greatest accomplishments and loftiest goals? - What makes the discipline a worthwhile field of study?

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