Wiley-Blackwell
Critical Reading Across the Curriculum, Volume 1: Humanities
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- Robert DiYanni
- Wiley-Blackwell
- Paperback
- 9781119154877
- 8.9 X 6 X 0.6 inches
- 0.75 pounds
- Language Arts & Disciplines > Reading Skills
- English
Secure TransactionBook Description
Powerful strategies, tools, and techniques for educators teaching students critical reading skills in the humanities.
Every educator understands the importance of teaching students how to read critically. Even the best teachers, however, find it challenging to translate their own learned critical reading practices into explicit strategies for their students. Critical Reading Across the Curriculum: Humanities, Volume 1 presents exceptional insight into what educators require to facilitate critical and creative thinking skills.
Written by scholar-educators from across the humanities, each of the thirteen essays in this volume describes strategies educators have successfully executed to develop critical reading skills in students studying the humanities. These include ways to help students:
- focus
- actively re-read and reflect, to re-think, and re-consider
- understand the close relationship between reading and writing
- become cognizant of the critical importance of context in critical reading and of making contextual connections
- learn to ask the right questions in critical reading and reasoning
- appreciate reading as dialogue, debate, and engaged conversation
In addition, teachers will find an abundance of innovative exercises and activities encouraging students to practice their critical reading skills. These can easily be adapted for and applied across many disciplines and course curricula in the humanities.
The lifelong benefits of strong critical reading skills are undeniable. Students with properly developed critical reading skills are confident learners with an enriched understanding of the world around them. They advance academically and are prepared for college success. This book arms educators (librarians, high school teachers, university lecturers, and beyond) with the tools to teach a most paramount lesson.
Author Bio
Robert DiYanni is a professor of humanities at New York University, having served as an instructional consultant at the NYU Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Center for Faculty Advancement. For these centers he conducted workshops and seminars on all aspects of pedagogy, consulted with faculty about teaching concerns, visited and observed classes, and provided a wide range of pedagogical consultative services. Professor DiYanni serves on the faculties of the School of Professional Studies and the Stern School of Business at NYU. He earned his undergraduate degree in English from Rutgers University, attended a Master of Arts in Teaching program at Johns Hopkins University, and received a Ph.D. in English Language and Literature from the City University of New York Graduate Center.
In addition to his work at NYU, Dr. DiYanni has taught at City University of New York, at Pace University, and as a Visiting Professor at Tsing Hua University in Taiwan and at Harvard University. As a high school teacher for four years and a college professor for more than four decades, Professor DiYanni has taught students from eighth grade through doctoral candidates. Most of his teaching, however, has been with college and university undergraduates. His numerous workshops, offered in more than twenty countries, have been attended by secondary school teachers and administrators, as well as by undergraduate college and university faculty and administrators.
Dr. DiYanni has written and edited numerous textbooks, among them, Literature: An Introduction; The Scribner Handbook for Writers (with Pat C. Hoy II); Arts and Culture: An Introduction to the Humanities, (with Janetta Rebold Benton), the basis for a series of lectures given at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; and Modern American Poets: Their Voices and Visions, which served as a companion text for the PBS television series Voices and Vision, which aired in the late 1980s.
His most recent books for teachers are Critical and Creative Thinking: A Brief Guide for Teachers, and with Anton Borst, Critical Reading Across The Curriculum (Wiley-Blackwell) and The Craft of College Teaching (Princeton University Press). Forthcoming from Princeton UP in early 2021 is his latest work, a book for general readers: You Are What You Read: A Practical Guide to Reading Well. Dr. DiYanni is an accomplished amateur mandolin player as well as a student of the classical guitar. He has written a memoir about his musical life, Living With Music, and another about his teaching career: The Teaching Life: Adventures in the Classroom and Beyond.
Research Interests
Best Practices in College Teaching
Critical and Creative Thinking
Teaching Literature
Education
PhD, English, 1976
City University of New York Graduate Center
BA, English, 1968
Rutgers University
Source: New York University and robertdiyanni.com
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