Rebels in the Classroom: Creativity and Risk-Taking in Honors Pedagogy

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2013

Publication Title

Honors In Practice

Volume

9

First page number:

47

Last page number:

67

Abstract

As teachers in the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Honors College, we face semester after semester a familiar classroom scenario. There they are, our students, arranged around the room, eyeing us with some degree of suspicion mixed with a healthy amount of good will and desire to please. They want to do well; they want to work hard, but they also might be just a little bit bored, a little bit restless. They would love to try something new but are too afraid to do so. They grow terrified when pushed out of their comfort zones and faced with new challenges that might threaten their GPAs and hopes of medical or law school.

Keywords

Academic achievement; Academic achievement—Analysis; Academic achievement—Evaluation; College students—Evaluation; Creative ability; Creative thinking; Creativity—Analysis; Educational environment—Analysis; Student evaluation—Analysis; Teaching methods--Analysis

Disciplines

Curriculum and Instruction | Education | Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research | Higher Education | Library and Information Science

Language

English

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