Creating a More Globally Conscious Classroom

Chapter 43 Creating a Motivating Classroom Environment

This chapter addresses the complex question of what makes a classroom environment motivating. It will be argued that in order to understand the psychological tapestry of classroom life, we need to adopt an interdisciplinary approach and draw on research findings from a number of different areas within the social sciences, such as group dynamics, motivational psychology, educational studies, and...

Classroom Experiments: Is More More?

Over the last 20 years, a considerable literature on the efficacy of classroom economics experiments in promoting student achievement has developed. Researchers find that student achievement is generally enhanced (or at least unharmed) by exposure to a pedagogy utilizing classroom experiments. While these findings have encouraged the adoption of classroom experiments, questions remain perhaps m...

Creating a More Perfect Union:

Federal constitutions are viewed as incomplete contracts that must be renegotiated among self-interested, reelection-seeking politicians. Even when collectively sub-optimal, they are difficult to renegotiate if each state government faces electoral incentives to ignore externalities and federation-wide collective goods. Vertically integrated political parties help resolve this problem by creati...

Creating More Effective Research

TWO KEY QUESTIONS are exercising the minds of pharmaceutical R&D directors at the moment: how to make better use of the available resources, and where to invest for growth. My experience of working with several major pharmaceutical companies over the past ten years shows that sound answers to those questions can be obtained by identifying the areas of greater and lesser opportunity in the portf...

Creating More Value for China’s M&A