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The current edition of Transformative Dialogues: Teaching and Learning ejournal, Volume 6, Issue 3, is freely accessible at: http://kwantlen.ca/TD/Current_Issue
Transformative Dialogues is a forum for conversations intended to foster the improvement of adult teaching and learning. TD facilitates the multi-disciplinary exchange of ideas, actions, and results of innovative and professional practice in the scholarship of teaching and learning.
This is an open access peer-reviewed online journal.
The articles are available as .pdf files. The reader can be downloaded for free from Adobe at: http://get.adobe.com/reader
Volume 6, Issue 3, April 2013
Learning in Context
Editorial
Learning Context - Dr. Balbir Kaur Gurm, Editor-in-Chief, Kwantlen Polytechnic University
Reflections
Lesson Learned Unexpectedly: A Reflection on Facilitating Instructional Skills Workshops in Kazakhstan - Michelle Pearson, MA, SAIT, University of Calgary
What's In Five Minutes? - Kathleen McCart, M.Ed., M.A.T.S., University of Houston
Articles & Essays
Give Me Space: The Importance of Distance for Relation in Education - Shannon Rodgers, Simon Fraser University
The Slow Professor: Challenging the Culture of Speed in the Academy - Maggie Berg, Queen's University; Barbara K. Seeber, Brock University
The Creation of the Comfortability in Learning Scale - Michael Kiener, Maryville University; Peter Green, Maryville University; Kelly Ahuna, Medaille College; Jennifer McCluskey, Maryville University
"Breaking the rules": A reflective processual analysis of multidisciplinary academic collaboration - Cheryl A. Kier, Caroline L Park, and Kam Jugdev, Athabasca University
Formative Assessment and Syntheses in Reflection Journals - Jodi Nickel, PhD, Mount Royal University
Affective Teaching: The place of place in interdisciplinary teaching - Dr. Lyn Baldwin, Dr. Tina Block, Dr. Lisa Cooke, Ila Crawford, MFA, Dr. Kim Naqvi, Ginny Ratsoy, MA, Elizabeth Templeman, MA, Dr. Tom Waldichuk, Thompson Rivers University
Mixing Business with Science: Graduate student perceptions of a pilot interdisciplinary course - Joan Flaherty, Michael von Massow, University of Guelph
Bridging the Distance in Teacher Education: Teachers' Perspectives on Process-Based Assessment - Peter Bergström, Umeå University
Putting knowledge in context: Curriculum contextualization in history classes - Ana Mouraz, Carlinda Leite, Universidade do Porto
This email is also a final call for submissions for Volume 7, Issue 1, which will be an open issue.
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looking forward
Dr. Balbir Gurm Dr. Alice Macpherson
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