2016 Lenssen Prize
2016 Lenssen Prize winners
The Lenssen Prize is awarded by the AAPT to the best paper concerning teaching and learning in philosophy published in the two years prior to the award.
The Winner of the 2016 Lenssen Prize:
- Kate Padgett Walsh, Anastasia Prokos, and Sharon R. Bird, “Building a Better Term Paper: integrating scaffolded writing and peer review,” Teaching Philosophy, 37:4 (Dec. 2014).
Honorable Mentions:
- Tom Dougherty, Samuel Baron, Kristie Miller, “Female Under-Representation Among Philosophy Majors: a map of the hypotheses and a survey of the evidence,” Feminist Philosophy Quarterly 1/1 (2015).
- Paul Green, “How to Motivate Students: a primer for learner-centered teachers,” AAPT Studies in Pedagogy 1 (2015), 47-60.
Each of these papers is well worth your study. Congratulations to the winners and honorable mentions. Thank you each for your contribution to teaching and learning!
More information about the Lenssen Prize and previous recipients,
see the AAPT-Awards page.
