Examines professors' resistance to implementing writing as learning. Contends that certain strategies can help inhibited teachers become receptive to writing-intensive courses. Combines strategies with surveys and observations of faculty implementing writing-intensive courses to produce a specific sequence of steps for overcoming professor resistance. Teaching of Psychology . Describes an undergraduate psychology course focusing on children's social development during the middle childhood years.
Students select, view, and analyze a feature film using theory and research presented in the course.
Includes a table listing 18 films used in the course. Teaching of Psychology . Describes a series of writing assignments in which entry level graduate students in a personality theory class wrote four short papers interpreting the personality of a character from a children's story or comic strip. Includes student feedback on the assignments. Teaching of Psychology .