Real Life and the Classroom
VI Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching (CELT) 83, 2013
6 Pages Posted: 6 Jan 2016 Last revised: 12 Feb 2016
Date Written: 2013
Abstract
The choices teachers make about both form and content in designing their courses shape students’ perceptions of the connection between ‘real life’ and the classroom. The choice to begin a first-year law course with stories told by residential school survivors provides an example of how to bring ‘real life’ into the classroom in a way which develops both critical understanding of ideas and capacity for identity-based roles and responsibilities. Classroom and ‘real life’ merge through issues and pedagogical approaches that combine deep reflection with active participation.
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