"Beginners Are Many but Enders Are Few": How to End a Course Well and Why It Matters

Autor/inn/en	Stone, Garrett A.; Powell, Gwynn M.; McGuire, Francis A.
Titel	"Beginners Are Many but Enders Are Few": How to End a Course Well and Why It Matters
Quelle	In: Schole: A Journal of Leisure Studies and Recreation Education, 37 (2022) 3, S.194-200 (7 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Stone, Garrett A.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1937-156X
DOI	10.1080/1937156X.2020.1760745
Schlagwörter	Leisure Education; Reflection; Review (Reexamination); Learning Activities; Class Activities; Relevance (Education); Skill Development; Knowledge Level; Critical Thinking; Program Effectiveness + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Freizeitpädagogik; Wiederholungsprüfung; Lernaktivität; Relevance; Relevanz; Kompetenzentwicklung; Qualifikationsentwicklung; Wissensbasis; Kritisches Denken
Abstract	The last day of a course is often viewed as awkward, abrupt, and even antithetical to a course's aims. More often than not, prime opportunities for reflection, reinforcement, reconciliation, and closure are typically subsumed to administrative tasks and end-of-course exhaustion. This paper summarizes the scant end-of-course literature, reviews the theoretical importance of ending a course well, and highlights a few "tried and true" end-of-course activities. Ending a course well may help students connect the dots, transfer learning, and experience academic and emotional closure, while simultaneously helping faculty refine their teaching and regroup in preparation for future iterations of the course. As leisure and learning experience design experts, leisure scholars are in a prime position to lead out in meaningful end-of-course pedagogy. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01