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This book advances another and sharply different model: the Impresario with a Scenario, a teacher who serves as class mobilizer, improviser, and energizer, staging dramatic, often unexpected and self-unfolding learning challenges and adventures with students.
List of contents
Foreword—Peter Felten On Becoming an Impresario. A Personal Preface 1. A Different Kind of Teaching 2. Neither Sage nor Guide 3. Scenarios 4. Impresarios 5. Dimensions and Families of Scenarios 6. Daily Scenarios from my Classes 7. Adventures in Role-Playing 8. Whole-Course Scenarios 9. Under the Open Skies References Index
About the author
Anthony Weston is a professor of philosophy and environmental studies at Elon University.
Peter Felten is Assistant Provost for Teaching and Learning, Director of the Center for Engaged Learning, and Professor of History at Elon University. His publications include: Transforming Students: Fulfilling the Promise of Higher Education (Johns Hopkins, 2014), and Engaging Students as Partners in Learning and Teaching (Jossey-Bass, 2014).
Summary
This book advances another and sharply different model: the Impresario with a Scenario, a teacher who serves as class mobilizer, improviser, and energizer, staging dramatic, often unexpected and self-unfolding learning challenges and adventures with students.
