From performance styles in Ireland and Japan to political and social evolutions in Turkey, Italy, Poland and Germany, dozens of Princeton students received a firsthand education about an array of ...

I’ve found Socratic Seminars to be an effective way to integrate social and collaborative learning in the classroom; give students the chance to ask meaningful questions about texts; and engage with ...

Over the past few years, I’ve attended summer workshop after summer workshop that touted the merits of Socratic seminars. The discussions revolved around open-ended questions facilitated by not ...

Seminars are a crucial part of learning and teaching at university. Seminars are much smaller than lectures – generally between 8–20 students – and are much less structured in their approach to the ...

If you’ve ever tried a Socratic seminar with your students, or know a colleague who has, this story may sound eerily familiar: After spending the semester shoring up students’ contextual knowledge ...

We knew we would encounter a few technical difficulties when we decided to teach an interdisciplinary, interuniversity, international graduate seminar. That was a given. But the biggest hurdle, it ...

The world today feels about as contentious at certain times as it did during the days of World War II and the Cold War, but one of the most important aspects of gaining the upper hand on adversaries ...

Poster presentation: View Janelle Jones’ poster (PDF) presented at the 2012 Symposium on Teaching and Learning. From the poster: One student’s response to “How have the discussion groups helped your ...

Our forests and green area are natural sinks of carbon dioxide and produce fresh oxygen as well as helps in regulating temperature and rainfall. At present forests cover 30% of the land but every year ...