Suggestions for further reading

✍ Scribed by Karen I. Spear

• Book ID: 104601746
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1984
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 155 KB
• Volume: 1984
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0271-0633
• DOI: 10.1002/tl.37219842011

✦ Synopsis

As the chapters in this sourcebook suggest, designing good introductory courses requires knowledge of more than the contents of a discipline. Successful courses reflect an understanding of curriculum design, expertise in a range of teaching techniques, sensitivity to issues in student development, and integration of the goals of liberal education into the specific discipline. Although little has been written about introductory courses per se, there is a vast literature in each of these areas. The suggestions for further reading listed here are a selection from recent writing on teaching effectiveness and curriculum design, liberal education, and student development. Thoughtful design of introductory courses requires extrapolation from these areas. To complement these general readings and provide some models of innovative introductory courses, I have also included a list of essays that discuss specific courses.