Humanizing Higher Education Through Innovative Approaches for Teaching and Learning

✍ Scribed by Enakshi Sengupta (editor), Patrick Blessinger (editor), Mandla Makhanya (editor)

• Publisher: Emerald Publishing
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 173
• Series: Innovations in Higher Education Teaching and Learning
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

As the demand for quality education grows, whilst resources are limited, innovative pedagogy is the only solution that can bridge both scarcity and quality. This edited collection showcases how innovative approaches to teaching and learning have become the need of the hour in higher education. How might new technologies and a fresh take on curriculum design create a sufficient impact on learners?

Pouring renewed emphasis onto the practice of innovative pedagogy, the authors chronicle the success stories of fresh interventions, and demonstrate the potential impact of re-inventing the learner-centered approach. With insight from academics around the world, including action-based models, the authors address the challenges which they faced while implementing new and sometimes radical methods, and provide a roadmap for future change.
Pooling a wealth of experience on how to create an efficient learning environment in today's competitive world, this book prepares educators, policymakers and other stakeholders to embrace transformational change within their institutions.

✦ Table of Contents

Half Title Page
Series Editors Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of Contributors
Series Editors’ Introduction
Part I: Pedagogical Impact on Learners
Chapter 1: Introduction to Humanizing Higher Education through Innovative Approaches for Teaching and Learning
Introduction
Literature Review
Conclusion
Chapter Overviews
References
Chapter 2: IThe Interesting as a Pedagogical Concept: An Essay
Introduction
On the Interesting
The Relevance of the Interesting
The Lecture as an Educational Event
Concretely
Independent Thought
Bibliography
Chapter 3: IUnderstanding Processes and Strategies for Integrating Sustainable Development in Curriculum
Introduction
Understanding Curriculum, Integration and Sustainable Development
Importance of Integrating Sustainable Development in Curriculum
Process of Integrating Sustainable Development Goals in Curriculum
Illustrative Example – Cultural Heritage and Science
Strategies for Safeguarding Intangible Heritage
Plugins in Secondary Curriculum
Academic Interventions and Strategies
Further Recommendations
Conclusion
References
Further Readings
Chapter 4: Supporting At-Risk Students in a Small Private University
Introduction
Review of Relevant Literature
Types of Advising
At-Risk Students
Research Questions
Method
Setting
Data Sources
ARP Student Profile
Results
ARP Participation Outcomes
Impact of ARA
Freshman Connect
Qualitative Results
Intake Surveys
Academic Struggles.
External Pressures.
Exit Surveys
Advising Notes
Discussion and Implications
Conclusions
References
Chapter 5: The Caring Teacher: A Philosophical Exercise in Praxis
The Ought and Care
Communicative Virtues
Caring Relation
Feeling Teacher
A Caring Model
Praxis
Some Ethical Considerations
Conclusion
References
Chapter 6: Spinning in Higher Education: An Autoethnography of Finding Space to be Human in Academic Life
Foreword
Just Keep Spinning
My Relationship to Jess
Hoop Jumping
Conclusion
Bibliography
Part II: Re-Designing Learning
Chapter 7: Disrupting Hierarchies and Shifting Identities in the Undergraduate Environment: Space as an Agent of Change
Introduction
Students as Partners in Design, Delivery and Implementation
Students as Partners: Creating the Learning Space Blueprint
Students as Partners: The Delivery and Implementation Phase
Re-Designing Learning, Re-Conceptualising Space
Learning in Partnership
Disrupting Hierarchies and Shifting Identities in the Undergraduate Environment
Disrupting Hierarchies and Shifting Identities in the Undergraduate Environment: Space as an Agent of Change
Conclusion
References
Chapter 8: Toward Humanizing Assessment: A Call to Find Justice to Students, to Faculty, and to Data
Introduction
Ethnographic Case Study
Concerns about Assessment Culture
Concerns about Data
Searching for Humanism in Education Assessment
Conclusion
References
Chapter 9: Integrating Traditional-Religious Knowledge in Higher Education. Human Agency as Philosophical Norm
Introduction
Secularization
Revision of the Philosophical Agenda
Traditional-Religious Expressions of Wisdom
How to Position Traditional-Religious Knowledge in a More Humanized Higher Education
References
Chapter 10: Using Models of Cognitive Development to Design College Learning Experiences
Introduction
Cognitive Development in the College Years
Received Knowers: Dualistic Passivity
Subjective Knowers: Dualistic Intuition
Procedural Knowers: Using Formulas
Constructed Knowing: Emergent Understanding
Behaviors of Effective Learning
Designing Curricula for Cognitive Development
Impact of Faculty Epistemology
Conclusion
References
About the Authors
Name Index
Subject Index