The Music Lecture as Gestalt
Psychologists have long recognized that student learning is facilitated when the details and subdivisions of any topic are understood in relation to larger contexts, connections are made…
The Religious Lecture: Synthesizing Persona and Narrative Immersion
Since the late nineteenth century religious studies has been conflicted by multiple, often mutually agonistic, means of study. The rise of biblical criticism, and historical criticism, has…
Creating a Socratic Lecture Space in Religious Studies
This chapter will make two main points regarding lectures in religious studies (RS) courses at non-confessional universities and colleges. First, it will reimagine the lecture space and…
The Lecture in Political Science
In a 1951 report about teaching political science, the American Political Science Association called to revitalize and modernize teaching political science, including the lecture which had appeared…
The College Lecture Today
Is the lecture still an effective pedagogical technique to teach college students in this age of online education, “flipping the classrooms,” and “student-centered education”? Having been the…