Introduction
Three Teaching Awardees from Faculties are invited to participate in video shooting to share their learning and teaching experiences and some innovative and vibrant learning activities with us! The videos will be shown at the TVs in the main corridor of D1 and D2-LP, B2 and D2-G/F and the Canteen during the Festival. Please see the summary of the awardees’ sharing below.
Programme: Master of Education (Liberal Studies Specialization)
Course: Learning, Teaching and Assessing Liberal Studies
Topic: Critical Thinking and Inference Making in Liberal Studies
Dr. CHENG Nga Yee Irene
Assistant Professor, Department of Science and Environmental Studies
The Recipient of the President’s Award for Outstanding Performance in Teaching 2012-2013
Abstract
Liberal Studies of the New Senior Secondary Curriculum aims to broaden students’ knowledge base and enhance their social awareness through the study of a wide range of issues. To understand the pluralistic nature of the contemporary world around them, students need to learn to examine issues from a variety of perspectives, construct knowledge and develop their critical thinking skills in order to prepare them to confidently face any challenges of the future. To help students to become critical thinkers who can make independent informed decisions on issues that have relevance to their daily lives, it is essential for the teachers themselves to have a good understanding of the nature, the models and process on which critical thinking can be developed.
In this lecture, participants are exposed to the process of critical thinking development through examining a real life health issue. In the process, participants do not just identify the major problems and concepts behind the case only, but they will also attempt to analyze the case by referring to the process of critical thinking as advocated in the Toulmin Argumentation Process Model. Through this experiential learning approach, participants will evaluate their own learning as on whether their thinking is more articulate, logical and clearly structured. Towards the end of the lecture, participants are asked to identify the academic, operational and technical concerns regarding the process of thinking development they have just experienced.
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Programme: General Educatural
Course: Being Chinese: Insights from Cross-cultural Psychology
Topic: Values and Morals
Dr. Emma BUCHTEL
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychological Studies
The Recipient of the Faculty’s Excellent Teaching Award 2013-2014
Abstract
In this 3-hour session I lectured on several models of moral development, starting with classic theories and going on to cultural-psychology criticisms. I then asked students to individually respond on a worksheet to a real-life cultural conflict dilemma (in which a recent immigrant to the USA was arrested for engaging in behaviour that appeared to be pedophilia but was encouraged by his culture of origin). I then randomly assigned students into groups to analyze why the conflict arose (using the moral theories), and engage in worksheet-guided critical thinking about what appropriate solutions would be if such a situation arose in Hong Kong. We ended with group summaries and an all-class discussion.
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Programme: Bachelor of Education (Honours), Bachelor of Art (Honours),Bachelor of Social Sciences (Honours)
Course: Fairy Love in Chinese Literature 仙凡之戀——愛情與文學
Topic: Time Consciousness and the Fairy Love in Chinese Opera時間意識與戲曲中的仙凡戀
Dr. MAN Ying Ling
Assistant Professor, Department of Chinese Language Studies
The Recipient of the Faculty’s Excellent Teaching Award 2013-2014
Abstract
這一課主要探討時間意識、高尚愛情以及仙凡戀文學的關係。《梁祝恨史》與《帝女花》是變體的仙凡戀故事，凡人以愛情歷練，修得化蝶成仙﹔從短暫的生命，邁入永恆仙境。這種永恆的愛情，在現實人生中又是否唾手可得呢？在課上，學員欣賞了林夕填詞的〈傳說〉，感受詞人慨歎現實愛情已變成遊戲，「盟誓永守、地老天荒」的永恆之愛，只能在戲曲及文學中存活，慰藉人心。通過活動、討論與鑒賞，學員對愛情、文學和時間意識都進行了探索與反思。
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