Word: textbooks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Kishlansky, himself the author of several textbooks, says his own textbook on Western civilization is used within Harvard's history department because professors often decide to use textbooks based on the nature of their course...
...nature of the text given can push students to do their own interpreting on the basis of some of the frameworks developed in lecture or section," Mendelsohn says, adding that although a standardized textbook is probably the best way to teach a class like introductory biology or physics, professors in these classes should provide supplemental materials as well...
Even in departments such as the classics which tend to be textbook-heavy, especially in the beginning and intermediate-level ancient Greek and Latin language classes, professors say they recognize the importance of stimulating discussion in their classes through different types of course material...
...long as texts stimulate interest and questions among students, then they are doing their job," Thomas says. "The sourcebook could simply be snapshots of a textbook; the two may not be different in kind. One is just a selection of the other...
...public finance courses, Economics 10 and all my intermediate economics courses were all textbook-oriented," says Tom N. Ambrose '72, an economics concentrator, who adds that sourcebooks were uncommon in his other related courses...