One light bulb and an illuminating year

Article Abstract:

A research student at University College, Oxford, details the time she spent teaching a third-year course in German history and a fourth-year course in British civilisation at the University of Elbasan in Albania. She notes that while there were difficulties to teaching in Albania, such as an unreliable power supply and poorly equipped and disorganised libraries, there were a number of benefits, including the ability to structure her courses pretty much as she wanted and the feeling that she had no pressure to pass students who were not up to the required standard as she would not be seeing them once the course was over.

Albania, Foreign teachers, Teachers, Foreign

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Illuminating our hardware

Article Abstract:

Evolutionary psychology has been developing as a discipline since the 1960's although it continues to have critics. Purponents believe that the human mind is basically adapted for the hunter-gatherer life of Pleistocene times but that there are mental sub-systems which have evolved for coping with life as it is today. A knowledge of these would enable us to fit any information to be processed to these mental programs. Criticism can be made of the assumption that human history goes back only to Pleistocene times and of specific areas such as that of language as one of the sub-systems.

Evaluation, Study and teaching, Evolution (Biology), Evolution, Genetic psychology, Evolutionary psychology

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Making a mark in the classroom

Article Abstract:

An English professor describes her experiences of teaching a group of graduate students how to teach. The course included a weekly seminar for the nine students involved in the programme. The seminar comprised of discussions on lessons plans and ideas about teaching. The group used an electronic bulletin board between meetings. The graduate students were involved in teaching 28 discussions lessons to undergraduates. The professor promised to write a report on each person in the group to encourage their participation in the scheme.

United States, Education, College teachers, College faculty, Training, Graduate teaching assistants

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