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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
CONTENTS
Preface
Margaret A. Miller
Part I: Teaching and Learning
Chapter 1: Students Speak About Powerful Learning
Reacting to "Reacting"
Amanda Houle
On the Power of Invective
Harlow Stewart Sanders
Journey to Diamond
Carson Wong
Walking the Walk
Matt Procino
Chapter 2: Faculty Speak About Engaging Students in Learning
Interactive Engagement in Upper-Division Physics
Steven 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 Applications
The Learning Sciences and Liberal Education
Nancy Budwig
Inciting Speech
Mark 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 College
Chapter 5: Students and Faculty Speak About Their Unsure Footing
The Power of the Posse
Ravi Singh, Yewande Selau, and Kiersten Chresfield
Self-Discovery through Undergraduate Research
Desiree Porter
Finding Community
Brenda Martinez
Homeless and Hungry in College
Brooke A. Evans
Teaching Across Difference
Jonathan Silin
Chapter 6: Faculty Speak About Helping Students Succeed
Moving the Attainment Agenda from Policy to Action
Keith Witham, Megan Chase, Estela Mara Bensimon, Debbie Hanson & David Longanecker
Summer 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 Engaged
Chapter 8: Students Speak About Becoming Citizens
Creating Democratic Spaces
Maggie Castor
A Different Kind of Student Activism
Logan Nash
Chapter 9: Faculty Speak About Students' and Graduates' Civic Power
Empowering 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 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
Megan M. Otis
A Dream Realized
Klara Kang
No More Training Wheels
Josh Berman
The Time Capsule
David 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 College
Coming Back to School: What Returning Students Can Teach Us About Learning and Development
Mike Rose
Making Learning Visible and Meaningful through Electronic Portfolios
Terrel L. Rhodes
Well-Being: An Essential Outcome for Higher Education
Ashley Finley
Chapter 13: Educating for Life
Margaret A. Miller
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