Word: teaching
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Director Tim Burton (Pee-Wee's Big Adventure) has some poignant points to make about, well, life: that the dead must teach the living to savor it. Mostly, though, he wants to give good fun, to turn Winter River into West Eastwick, to ransack pop culture for references to everything from Topper to Tiny Alice. And to give Michael Keaton the chance to run productively wild. Keaton's Beetlejuice is a deliciously loathsome creature, whether shouting insults, lunching on insects or, in the film's climactic wedding scene, pulling a ring off a severed, shriveled finger and muttering...
...videotape, which also features Harvard classes in French and Spanish, will be used primarily for training Harvard teaching fellows. Many of these graduate students come to the University from France and Spain in order to teach at Harvard. "We plan to use it every fall during orientation," Mueller said...
...experiences dealing with students' reactions to controversial subject matter closely parallel those of many other professors who teach in non-traditional disciplines. Interviews with instructors this week revealed that the teaching of sensitive issues in the college classroom-and the question of student input--are problems that do not lend themselves to a single solution...
...Black history and women's history are very similar in that some people still consider them unusual and new and not yet paradigms of historical study," says Assistant Professor of Afro-American Studies and History David W. Blight, who teaches courses on Reconstruction and modern Afro-American history. He says the newness of these fields leaves unresolved questions about what it is and is not appropriate to teach in the classroom...
Professor of Education and Social Structure Nathan Glazer, a prominent expert on education who is leading a Social Studies junior tutorial this semester on race and ethnicity in the U.S., presented a paper to an Afro-American seminar on how to teach sensitive subjects. "Basically," he says, "it was a paper on how to tell the bad news and to try to develop some guidelines...