yes, i get by with a little help from my friends
hiya folks! hope this finds all of you well. i think many of you have been able to keep up with me via my travel blog. thank you for your thoughts, emails and well wishes. i'm having a wonderful time.
now on to the part where i ask for
long and short of it: i am assisting my mentor in teaching a two month program for 20 grad students from the
UK. i want to develop a research project in conjunction with this opportunity.
i would like to begin by reading some current material. the only trouble is that i don't have a resource at my school for locating applicable western/american/english research. i have been going through the web, amazon and so on and i have found some interesting things. but how do i sort the wheat from the shaft?
then i remembered that many of you are avid readers, scholars, grad students, teachers and so on. so here i am. i would greatly appreciate any knowledge you can provide me on narrowing the great field of information. maybe you have a method for researching authors, or research. maybe you know of a wonderful book on the subject. maybe you know someone who knows someone that may know.... regardless, thank you for your support.
current brainstorm:
overall, i want to examine the similarities and differences in teaching between cultures, as well as the role they play in the transference of information (for my purposes western vs. eastern european)
current bullet points:
cultural teaching styles, including the mentality of cultures and the presentation of material
process vs product in teaching
responsibilities in the student/teacher relationship
now on to the part where i ask for
long and short of it: i am assisting my mentor in teaching a two month program for 20 grad students from the
UK. i want to develop a research project in conjunction with this opportunity.
i would like to begin by reading some current material. the only trouble is that i don't have a resource at my school for locating applicable western/american/english research. i have been going through the web, amazon and so on and i have found some interesting things. but how do i sort the wheat from the shaft?
then i remembered that many of you are avid readers, scholars, grad students, teachers and so on. so here i am. i would greatly appreciate any knowledge you can provide me on narrowing the great field of information. maybe you have a method for researching authors, or research. maybe you know of a wonderful book on the subject. maybe you know someone who knows someone that may know.... regardless, thank you for your support.
current brainstorm:
overall, i want to examine the similarities and differences in teaching between cultures, as well as the role they play in the transference of information (for my purposes western vs. eastern european)
current bullet points:
cultural teaching styles, including the mentality of cultures and the presentation of material
process vs product in teaching
responsibilities in the student/teacher relationship