Teaching Scholars for 2000-2001
Dan Price
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Biography
Dan Price is entering his fourth year teaching in the Justice Studies
Department at the Tnunbull Campus. Being one of only two full-time JUS
faculty (which has the most majors on his campus) at Trumbull, he has
taught seven undergraduate preparations including Introduction to Justice
Studies, Police Roles, Criminology, Research Methods, Juvenile Delinquency,
Development of Justice in America, and American National Politics. He
has also taught Issues in Justice Administration and Comparative Justice
graduate courses at the Kent campus. Dan currently has a regional campus
summer teaching development grant to transform the department's introductory
course to reflect its new broader "justice studies" focus (rather than
criminal justice). This project has included putting a survey on the WWW
to get input from criminal justice faculty at other schools. He is also
revising a paper on creating community in the classroom, which he presented
at the national political science conference, for submission for publication.
He recently attended the Ohio "Great Teachers" retreat, which focused
on innovation in the classroom. Dan's background in teaching includes
completion of a secondary teacher certification program with a concentration
in social studies. He has worked as both a regular and substitute teacher
in the Cleveland and Binghamton NY areas. He has also taught at Austin
Community College and SUNY-Binghamton as an adjunct. One of his more interesting
teaching experiences was serving as a volunteer ESL teacher at the secondary
level in Israel. Dan's primary research interests are in the area of comparative
and international justice issues with a focus on the Islamic world. He
is particularly interested in the influence of Islam on human rights practices
and the safeguarding of civil liberties. He is currently working on a
paper examining religion's role in determining criminal sanctioning and
procedure in Muslim countries. Dan loves the outdoors and hiking. He also
participates in many sports. He religiously listens to NPR and folk music.
Dan admits to watching too much TV, drinking beer, and wasting time on
the WWW when he should be working.
Teaching
Project
Dan's two main objectives for his Teaching Scholars Program
project are to develop strategies for increasing active student participation
in his classes. Dan's students prefer to sit and listen (or pretend to
listen) to him talk and take notes. He wants to move them out of this
passive mode and make them become more active learners. Dan is hoping
that learning about new educational technologies (computers) will help
him do so. In short, he would like to incorporate computers in his class
sessions, because he thinks that this will elicit response from his students.
