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College Teaching and Learning for Change Students and Faculty Speak Out
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.
CONTENTS
Preface
Margaret A. Miller
Part I: Teaching and Learning
Chapter 1: Students Speak About Powerful Learning
- Reacting to "Reacting"
- On the Power of Invective
- Journey to Diamond
- Walking the Walk
- Interactive Engagement in Upper-Division Physics
- The Road to a Project-Based Classroom
- Google Earth Takes Us There
- Rethinking the Large Lecture
- Lying About the Past
- The Learning Sciences and Liberal Education
- Inciting Speech
- Rules of Engagement: Strategies to Increase Online Engagement at Scale
- Learning, Teaching and Scholarship: Fundamental Tensions of Undergraduate Research
Amanda Houle
Harlow Stewart Sanders
Carson Wong
Matt Procino
Chapter 2: Faculty Speak About Engaging Students in Learning
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
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
- The Power of the Posse
- Self-Discovery through Undergraduate Research
- Finding Community
- Homeless and Hungry in College
- Teaching Across Difference
- Moving the Attainment Agenda from Policy to Action
- Summer Bridge Program 2.0: Using Social Media to Develop Students' Campus Capital
- The Dark Side of College (Un)Affordability: Food and Housing Insecurity in Higher Education
Ravi Singh, Yewande Selau, and Kiersten Chresfield
Desiree Porter
Brenda Martinez
Brooke A. Evans
Jonathan Silin
Chapter 6: Faculty Speak About Helping Students Succeed
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
- Creating Democratic Spaces
- A Different Kind of Student Activism
- Empowering Students to Make a Difference Now
- Against the Current: Developing the Civic Agency of Students
- Failing at Citizenry
Maggie Castor
Logan Nash
Chapter 9: Faculty Speak About Students’ and Graduates’ Civic Power
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
- Finding My Voice in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
- A Dream Realized
- No More Training Wheels
- The Time Capsule
- Tagliare Fore di Tenere
- On Not Being an A Student
- How to Fail Well
- Coming Back to School: What Returning Students Can Teach Us About Learning and Development
- Making Learning Visible and Meaningful through Electronic Portfolios
- Well-Being: An Essential Outcome for Higher Education
Megan M. Otis
Klara Kang
Josh Berman
David Brandt
Laura Ackerman
Holly King
Anya Adair
Chapter 12: Faculty Speak About the Outcomes of College
Mike Rose
Terrel L. Rhodes
Ashley Finley
Chapter 13: Educating for Life
Margaret A. Miller
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Biography
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.
"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
