College teaching and learning for change : students and faculty speak out /
edited by Margaret A. Miller.
- xii, 280 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTSPreface Margaret A. MillerPart I: Teaching and LearningChapter 1: Students Speak About Powerful Learning Reacting to "Reacting" Amanda Houle On the Power of InvectiveHarlow Stewart SandersJourney to DiamondCarson WongWalking the WalkMatt ProcinoChapter 2: Faculty Speak About Engaging Students in LearningInteractive Engagement in Upper-Division PhysicsSteven Pollock The Road to a Project-Based Classroom Gintaras Duda Google Earth Takes Us There Ann Williams and Thomas C. Davinroy Rethinking the Large Lecture Andrew Hamilton Lying About the Past T. Miles Kelly Chapter 3: Faculty Speak About Learning Theory and Its ApplicationsThe Learning Sciences and Liberal Education Nancy Budwig Inciting SpeechMark Carnes Rules of Engagement: Strategies to Increase Online Engagement at Scale Anne Trumbore Learning, Teaching and Scholarship: Fundamental Tensions of Undergraduate Research Sandra Laursen, Elaine Seymour & Anne-Barrie Hunter Chapter 4: Knowing and Doing Margaret A. Miller Part II: Belonging in CollegeChapter 5: Students and Faculty Speak About Their Unsure FootingThe Power of the PosseRavi Singh, Yewande Selau, and Kiersten Chresfield Self-Discovery through Undergraduate Research Desiree Porter Finding Community Brenda Martinez Homeless and Hungry in College Brooke A. EvansTeaching Across Difference Jonathan Silin Chapter 6: Faculty Speak About Helping Students SucceedMoving the Attainment Agenda from Policy to ActionKeith Witham, Megan Chase, Estela Mara Bensimon, Debbie Hanson & David LonganeckerSummer Bridge Program 2.0: Using Social Media to Develop Students' Campus Capital Derek L. Hottell, Ana M. Martinez-Aleman & Heather T. Rowan-Kenyon The Dark Side of College (Un)Affordability: Food and Housing Insecurity in Higher Education Katharine Broton and Sara Goldrick-Rab Chapter 7: Imposters in the Academy Margaret A. Miller Part III: Becoming EngagedChapter 8: Students Speak About Becoming CitizensCreating Democratic Spaces Maggie Castor A Different Kind of Student Activism Logan Nash Chapter 9: Faculty Speak About Students' and Graduates' Civic PowerEmpowering Students to Make a Difference Now Susan Dicklitch and Amara M. Riley Against the Current: Developing the Civic Agency of Students Harry C. Boyte Failing at Citizenry Paul KingstonChapter 10: Educating for Citizenship Margaret A. Miller Part IV: Finding AgencyChapter 11: Students Speak About Developing AgencyFinding My Voice in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Megan M. Otis A Dream Realized Klara Kang No More Training WheelsJosh Berman The Time CapsuleDavid Brandt Tagliare Fore di Tenere Laura Ackerman On Not Being an A Student Holly King How to Fail Well Anya Adair Chapter 12: Faculty Speak About the Outcomes of CollegeComing Back to School: What Returning Students Can Teach Us About Learning and Development Mike RoseMaking Learning Visible and Meaningful through Electronic Portfolios Terrel L. RhodesWell-Being: An Essential Outcome for Higher Education Ashley Finley Chapter 13: Educating for Life Margaret A. MillerPermissions PageList of Contributors
Students and faculty come together in this powerful collection to discuss experiences and teaching practices that can change students' livers. 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.