Peer Teaching: Historical Perspectives

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A survey of the development of peer teaching in Western civilization through the centuries. This study identifies contributions of individual and societies to peer teaching; it compares and contrasts the use of this method in various Western countries; it describes how social and economic conditions influenced the idea and use of peer teaching; it ascertains how methodology changed during the historical development of peer teaching; it summarizes developments in the US; nd it reviews the research base for peer teaching.-Choice
"A survey of the development of peer teaching in Western civilization through the centuries. This study identifies contributions of individual and societies to peer teaching; it compares and contrasts the use of this method in various Western countries; it describes how social and economic conditions influenced the idea and use of peer teaching; it ascertains how methodology changed during the historical development of peer teaching; it summarizes developments in the US; nd it reviews the research base for peer teaching."-Choice

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LILYA WAGNER is Vice President for Institutional Advancement at Union College in Lincoln, Nebraska, where she also teaches courses in journalism and communications. She is the author of Peer Teaching (Greenwood Press, 1982).