College Teaching and Learning for Change: Students and Faculty Speak Out

by Margaret A. Miller (Editor)

Overview

Students and faculty come together in this powerful collection to discuss experiences and teaching practices that can change students’ lives. Organized into four parts, these first-person accounts explore the many challenges facing college students, offering advice on how to best serve low-income, first-generation, underrepresented student populations; how to foster political engagement; and how to help students take charge of their lives and education. The stories in College Teaching and Learning for Change provide higher education faculty and student affairs practitioners with an increased understanding of the wide variety of student experiences, and together they constitute a platform for encouraging student success.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138236417
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/24/2017
Pages:	292
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Margaret A. Miller is former executive editor of Change magazine, president emerita of the American Association for Higher Education, and a retired professor of higher education at the University of Virginia, USA.

Table of Contents

CONTENTS

Preface

Margaret A. Miller

Part I: Teaching and Learning

Chapter 1: Students Speak About Powerful Learning

1. Reacting to "Reacting"
2. On the Power of Invective
3. Journey to Diamond
4. Walking the Walk

Amanda Houle

Harlow Stewart Sanders

Carson Wong

Matt Procino

Chapter 2: Faculty Speak About Engaging Students in Learning

1. Interactive Engagement in Upper-Division Physics
2. The Road to a Project-Based Classroom
3. Google Earth Takes Us There
4. Rethinking the Large Lecture
5. Lying About the Past

Steven Pollock

Gintaras Duda

Ann Williams and Thomas C. Davinroy

Andrew Hamilton

T. Miles Kelly

Chapter 3: Faculty Speak About Learning Theory and Its Applications

1. The Learning Sciences and Liberal Education
2. Inciting Speech
3. Rules of Engagement: Strategies to Increase Online Engagement at Scale
4. Learning, Teaching and Scholarship: Fundamental Tensions of Undergraduate Research

Nancy Budwig

Mark Carnes

Anne Trumbore

Sandra Laursen, Elaine Seymour & Anne-Barrie Hunter

Chapter 4: Knowing and Doing

Margaret A. Miller

　

Part II: Belonging in College

Chapter 5: Students and Faculty Speak About Their Unsure Footing

1. The Power of the Posse
2. Self-Discovery through Undergraduate Research
3. Finding Community
4. Homeless and Hungry in College
5. Teaching Across Difference

Ravi Singh, Yewande Selau, and Kiersten Chresfield

Desiree Porter

Brenda Martinez

Brooke A. Evans

Jonathan Silin

Chapter 6: Faculty Speak About Helping Students Succeed

1. Moving the Attainment Agenda from Policy to Action
2. Summer Bridge Program 2.0: Using Social Media to Develop Students' Campus Capital
3. The Dark Side of College (Un)Affordability: Food and Housing Insecurity in Higher Education

Keith Witham, Megan Chase, Estela Mara Bensimon, Debbie Hanson & David Longanecker

Derek L. Hottell, Ana M. Martinez-Aleman & Heather T. Rowan-Kenyon

Katharine Broton and Sara Goldrick-Rab

Chapter 7: Imposters in the Academy

Margaret A. Miller

　

Part III: Becoming Engaged

Chapter 8: Students Speak About Becoming Citizens

1. Creating Democratic Spaces
2. A Different Kind of Student Activism

Maggie Castor

Logan Nash

Chapter 9: Faculty Speak About Students’ and Graduates’ Civic Power

1. Empowering Students to Make a Difference Now
2. Against the Current: Developing the Civic Agency of Students
3. Failing at Citizenry

Susan Dicklitch and Amara M. Riley

Harry C. Boyte

Paul Kingston

Chapter 10: Educating for Citizenship

Margaret A. Miller

　

Part IV: Finding Agency

Chapter 11: Students Speak About Developing Agency

1. Finding My Voice in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
2. A Dream Realized
3. No More Training Wheels
4. The Time Capsule
5. Tagliare Fore di Tenere
6. On Not Being an A Student
7. How to Fail Well

Megan M. Otis

Klara Kang

Josh Berman

David Brandt

Laura Ackerman

Holly King

Anya Adair

Chapter 12: Faculty Speak About the Outcomes of College

1. Coming Back to School: What Returning Students Can Teach Us About Learning and Development
2. Making Learning Visible and Meaningful through Electronic Portfolios
3. Well-Being: An Essential Outcome for Higher Education

Mike Rose

Terrel L. Rhodes

Ashley Finley

Chapter 13: Educating for Life

Margaret A. Miller

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List of Contributors

　

Editorial Reviews

"The shortfalls in higher education get plenty of press today; it can wear you down. The essays assembled in this new volume offer a most welcome counter-narrative. Readers will find rich resources, thoughtful research, and lively stories of the diverse, often surprising ways and places that learning happens—for both students and teachers."

– Pat Hutchings, Senior Scholar, National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment

"Forget the ivory tower! This vital new book testifies to the educational power that comes when college and life are not kept apart. College Teaching and Learning for Change offers compelling stories about teaching imaginatively, overcoming adversity, building community, and finding one’s voice... For readers eager to regain their pedagogical footing in a time of tectonic shifts in the academe, this book is a perfect place to start."

– Mary Taylor Huber, Senior Scholar Emerita, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching

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