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An Illinois Sampler
  • An Illinois Sampler: Teaching and Research on the Prairie
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  • Edited by Mary-Ann Winkelmes and Antoinette Burton with Kyle Mays
  • 2014
  • Published by: University of Illinois Press
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An Illinois Sampler presents personal accounts from faculty members at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and other contributors about their research and how it enriches and energizes their teaching. Contributors from the humanities, engineering, social and natural sciences, and other disciplines explore how ideas, methods, and materials merge to lead their students down life-changing paths to creativity, discovery, and solutions. Faculty introduce their classes to work conducted from the Illinois prairie to Caribbean coral reefs to African farms, and from densely populated cities to dense computer coding. In so doing they generate an atmosphere where research, teaching, and learning thrive inside a feedback loop of education across disciplines.

Aimed at alumni and prospective students interested in the university's ongoing mission, as well as current faculty and students wishing to stay up to date on the work being done around them, An Illinois Sampler showcases the best, the most ambitious, and the most effective teaching practices developed and nurtured at one of the world's premier research universities.

Contributors are Nancy Abelmann, Flavia C. D. Andrade, Jayadev Athreya, Betty Jo Barrett, Thomas J. Bassett, Hugh Bishop, Antoinette Burton, Lauren A. Denofrio-Corrales, Lizanne DeStefano, Karen Flynn, Bruce W. Fouke, Rebecca Ginsburg, Julie Jordan Gunn, Geoffrey Herman, Laurie Johnson, Kyle T. Mays, Rebecca Nettl-Fiol, Audrey Petty, Anke Pinkert, Raymond Price, Luisa-Maria Rosu, D. Fairchild Ruggles, Carol Spindel, Mark D. Steinberg, William Sullivan, Richard I. Tapping, Bradley Tober, Agniezska Tuszynska, Bryan Wilcox, Kate Williams, Mary-Ann Winkelmes, and Yi Lu.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Title Page, Copyright
  2. pp. i-iv
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. v-vi
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  1. Acknowledgments
  2. pp. vii-viii
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  1. "Introduction: Charting Common Ground in the Teaching-Resea
  2. Mary-Ann Winkelmes and Antoinette Burton
  3. pp. ix-xiv
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  1. "A Sense of the Earth"
  2. Bruce W. Fouke
  3. pp. 1-7
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  1. "Collaborative Artists: How to Speak and Listen at the Same Time"
  2. Julie Jordan Gunn
  3. pp. 8-13
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  1. "The Intimate University: 'We Are All in This Together'"
  2. Nancy Abelmann
  3. pp. 14-20
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  1. "Painting with Numbers (and Shapes, and Symmetry)"
  2. Jayadev Athreya
  3. pp. 21-26
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  1. "From Desk to Bench: Linking Students' Interests to Science Cu
  2. Lauren A. Denofrio-Corrales and Yi Lu
  3. pp. 27-33
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  1. "Bringing Statistics to Life"
  2. Flavia C. D. Andrade
  3. pp. 34-39
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  1. The Humanity of Teaching: Reflections from the Education Justice Project
  2. D. Fairchild Ruggles with Hugh Bishop, Rebecca Ginsburg, Audrey Petty, Anke Pinkert, and Agniezska Tuszynska
  3. pp. 40-48
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  1. "Prairie Tales: The Life of the Lecture at Illinois"
  2. Laurie Johnson
  3. pp. 49-53
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  1. Engineering Professors Who Are Reengineering Their Courses: The iFoundry Perspective
  2. Luisa-Maria Rosu with Betty Jo Barrett, Bryan Wilcox, Geoffrey Herman, Raymond Price, and Lizanne DeStefano
  3. pp. 54-58
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  1. "It's More than a 'Ghetto Story': Using Dancehall as a Pedagogical Tool in the Classroom
  2. Karen Flynn
  3. pp. 59-66
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  1. "Experiencing Histories of the City"
  2. Mark D. Steinberg
  3. pp. 67-71
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  1. "More the Creativity: Infusing Research in the Design Studio"
  2. William Sullivan
  3. pp. 72-78
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  1. "The Maps on Our Backs"
  2. Thomas J. Bassett
  3. pp. 79-86
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  1. "My Education as a Medical School Teacher"
  2. Richard I. Tapping
  3. pp. 87-92
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  1. "Dance and the Alexander Technique: A Dynamic Research-Teaching Design"
  2. Rebecca Nettl-Fiol
  3. pp. 93-100
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  1. "Five Things Only I Care About"
  2. Carol Spindel
  3. pp. 101-106
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  1. "Creative Code in the Design Classroom: Preparing Students for Contemporary Profession
  2. Bradley Tober
  3. pp. 107-111
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  1. "CyberNavigating"
  2. Kate Williams
  3. pp. 112-118
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  1. "Humanities and Sciences at Work: Liberatory Education for Millennials"
  2. Kyle T. Mays
  3. pp. 119-122
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  1. About the Contributors
  2. pp. 123-130
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