Peer power can transform teaching, say education prize winners
LOUISVILLE, Ky. ā Treat them with respect, let them learn from their peers and give them the freedom to make decisions as a team.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. ā Treat them with respect, let them learn from their peers and give them the freedom to make decisions as a team.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. ā A brain scientist who helped explain how our emotions affect what we learn and remember has won the 2015 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Psychology.
LOUISVILLE, Ky.āUnderstanding clan-based cultures is critical to the survival of modern democracies, says a legal historian who has won the 2015 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order.
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American evangelical practices of prayer can train the mind to experience God, says the winner of the 2014 Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Religion.
Education historian Diane Ravitch once supported education reform, but now she sees it as a series of āmistaken policiesā that have corrupted public schools.
A California scholar who proposed that emotions play an integral role in human reasoning and decision-making has won the 2014 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Psychology.
A book explaining why nuclear weapons programs in many developing nations have been prone to inefficiency and failure has won the 2014 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order.
“On the Guarding of the Heart,” a piece for chamber orchestra by Serbian-born composer Djuro Zivkovic has won the 2014 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition.
Recipients of the 2013 Grawemeyer Awards will discuss their winning works and ideas at the University of Louisville and Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary in April.