EMBRACING CONTRARIES

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction

Part 1 The Learning Process

1 Nondisciplinary Courses and the Two Roots of Real Learning

2 Cooking: The Interaction of Conflicting Elements

3 Teaching Two Kinds of Thinking by Teaching Writing

Part 2 The Teaching Process

4 Exploring My Teaching

5 The Pedagogy of the Bamboozled

6 Trying to Teach While Thinking About the End

7 Embracing Contraries in the Teaching Process

Part 3 The Evaluation Process

8 Evaluating Students More Accurately

9 Collaborative Peer Evaluation by Faculty

9a Visiting Pete Sinclair

9b On Being Visited

9c Contraries in Responding

10 Trustworthiness in Evaluation

Part 4 Contraries and Inquiry

11 The Value of Dialectic

12 Methodological Doubting and Believing: Contraries in Inquiring

Bibliography

Index