Curriculum Vitae MICHELE KNOBEL, PhD.

deliberately made practical links to classroom and school practices wherever possible,
and draw on my own research experiences and findings within U.S. schools and
elsewhere—along with research conducted by others—to ground the course in
everyday classroom complexities. Within the Department, the conduct of this
foundation course is left to the discretion of the course teacher to develop. Therefore, I
am responsible for designing course content, setting required texts and delivering the
content by means of multimedia resources, classroom-based activities and dilemmas
for students to engage with, relevant articles from local and national newspapers, and
the like. Enrolment was approximately 100 students per class, and informal,
spontaneous student feedback was extremely positive and encouraging, with students
telling me that they both enjoyed the class and learning much about education in the
U.S. Indeed, students from these classes continue to keep in touch and many have
subsequently gone on to careers in education themselves.
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