Center for Teaching Resources:
Working Papers

 

Incorporating Research in Teaching: A Discussion. In response to faculty concerns, early in the Easter Semester 2003, the Center for Teaching facilitated a luncheon discussion about the relationship between teaching and research. The report summarizes that discussion and includes two appendices with student and faculty responses to an e-mail query about the research/teaching relationship.

Discussion Classes: Faculty Thoughts & Student Scripts:In the Easter Semester, 2003, in response to faculty requests, the Center for Teaching held a series of sessions on class discussion. To support those sessions we solicited both faculty and student opinion and conducted some ‘quick and dirty' research on how students saw discussion classes. This report compiles the reflections, opinions and research.

Studying a Sewanee Education: The Student Experience. In 2003, the Center for Teaching began a pilot study of student intellectual life. A dozen comp'd seniors wrote their intellectual autobiographies and then gave in-depth interviews about their Sewanee experience. This report summarizes the findings.

Seeing duPont within Sewanee and Student Life: In the Easter Semester, 2004, five students (Beth Christian, Chris Honeycutt, Shawn Means, Aimee Rogers, David Zeman) worked with Richard O'Connor in a collaborative research project to support The Library Planning Task Force. The report analyzes student study patterns and develops a model of how a college education works as acculturation to academic culture.

The Power of Place in Learning: A brief article by Richard O'Connor and Scott Bennett from Planning for Higher Education [2005, v33, no.4] that summarizes the model of collegiate learning developed in the Center for Teaching research on duPont Library.

Student Religious Ethos and Identity in Campus Life: In the Easter Semester, 2006, seven students (Emily Caton, Christian Crouch, Audrey Kerr, Tracian Meikle, Lindsey Miller, Caroline Parris and Anna Stroup) worked with Richard O'Connor in a collaborative research project on student religious life and how it relates to campus culture and Sewanee's Anglican heritage [forthcoming].