The 26th Annual JPS Symposium

Discussion Sessions,
Workshops, & Exhibitions

Program Table of Contents | Program Overview

DISCUSSION SESSIONS

Discussion 1:
(Sonata 5, Friday 1:30 - 3:00)

Considerations of interest in learning and development

Rosalie P. Fink, Lesley College; K. Ann Renninger, Swarthmore College

Educators and researchers alike have long assumed that student interest affects educational outcomes. Until recently, however, there was little empirical evidence to support this claim. The discussion leaders in this session will present and briefly analyze findings from their own research on the role of interest in development. Presentations will be followed by dialogue and audience participation in discussion of following questions: (1) When and under what conditions does interest assist or detract from learning and development? (2) What is the role of interest in facilitating change? (3) Is there a relation between interest and gender? (4) Is there a relation between the effects of interest on learning and individual variation? (5) How do we want to think about the relations that exist among interest, cognition, and motivation? Audience questions will be used to guide the discussion.

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Discussion 2:
(Sonata 3, Saturday 8:30 - 10:15)

New Interactive Approaches to College Teaching

Jeanette McCarthy Gallagher, Lehigh University; William G. Fullard, Temple University; James Sempsey, Temple University

College and university teachers may select from a wide array of instructional strategies such as materials promoting critical thinking, problem solving and cooperative learning. Other interactive approaches to instruction center upon advances in technology including videos and the Internet. The purpose of the discussion session is to provide a forum for those teaching at the college and university levels to share experiences, problems and evaluations of new approaches. Participants are encouraged to bring curriculum materials to share.

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WORKSHOPS

Workshop:
(Sonata 5, Thursday 8:30 - 10:15)

You can have your cake and eat it too: Integrating structure and content in moral education

Organizer: Marvin W. Berkowitz, Marquette University

There is a perception of incompatibility of structural and more content-based approaches to moral education. Each "side" has criticized the other for promoting relativism. It will be demonstrated that the various "factions" have been playing the "blind men and the elephant" and that diverse approaches can be integrated into a more comprehensive model of moral education. In order to demonstrate these points, workshop participants will explore the complex nature of the moral person, examine the nature of moral relativism, and discuss ways in which content can be integrated with structuralist approaches to moral education.

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EXHIBITION INTERLUDES

Exhibition Interlude:
(Sonata 3, Thursday 3:15 - 4:15)

Viewing Piaget

Howard E. Gruber, Teachers College Columbia University, will introduce and show two silent films offering an interlude of light entertainment. A fifteen minute film, "Le dévelopment de l'intelligence chez la bicyclette," which spoofs Piaget's theory, and a twenty-two minute film, "Quelle Equipe," created by Christiane Gillèron and Howard Gruber, offering a "family album of the international Piaget family as it stood 20 years ago."

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