Making teaching and learning matter : transformative spaces in higher education /

Making teaching and learning matter : transformative spaces in higher education /

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Imprint:Dordrecht ; New York : Springer, c2011.
Description:1 online resource (xiii, 307 p.)
Language:English
Series:Explorations of educational purpose ; v. 11
Explorations of Educational Purpose ; v. 11.
Subject:
Education, Higher -- Study and teaching.
Education, Higher -- Study and teaching.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8896822
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Other authors / contributors:Summerfield, Judith, 1941-
Smith, Cheryl (Cheryl Hogue)
ISBN:9789048191666 (electronic bk.)
9048191661 (electronic bk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Description based on print version record.
Summary:This volume captures the spirit of collaboration and innovation that its authors bring into the classroom, as well as to groundbreaking undergraduate programs and initiatives. Coming from diverse points of view and twenty different disciplines, the contributors illuminate the often perplexing debates about what matters most in higher education today. Each chapter tells a unique story about creating vital pedagogical arenas that have the potential to transform teaching and learning for both faculty and students. These exploratory spaces include courses under construction, cross-college and inte.
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: pt. I Prologue, Beginning an Exchange: Administration, Faculty, and the Shared Conversation
  • 1. Rooms in Common: Where Teaching and Learning Matter / Judith Summerfield
  • 2. Campus Center: Negotiating the Teaching Spaces of Higher Education / Cheryl C. Smith
  • 3. Book Structure: An Overview of the Conversations / Judith Summerfield
  • pt. II Changing Institutional Spaces: The Challenges of an Integrated University
  • 4. Bridging the Colleges: Perspectives on the Integrated University / Robert Whittaker
  • 5. Fortunate Gardener: Cultivating a Writing Center / Maria Jerskey
  • 6. Accountability/Assessment as a Catalyst for Building College Community / Sue Henderson
  • 7. CUNY Online Baccalaureate: A Transformative Cyberspace / William Bernhardt
  • pt. III Negotiating Roles and Identities: The Challenges Faculty and Students Face
  • 8. Creating Space for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: Transforming the Meaning of Academic Work / Bonnie Oglensky
  • 9. Writing Fellow/Faculty Collaboration in a Community College: Paradigms of Teaching and Learning Across the Curriculum / Andrea Fabrizio
  • 10. Academic Discourse on a Multilingual Campus / Sue Lantz Goldhaber
  • 11. Power of Peers: New Ways for Students to Support Students / Louis Lucca
  • pt. IV Re-envisioning Pedagogy: The Challenges of Evolving Practice
  • 12. Tempo and Reading Well / Christa Davis Acampora
  • 13. Exploring History, Architecture, and Art Across Three Colleges in the Bronx / Carl James Grindley
  • 14. Campus Without Boundaries: The Brooklyn Green Walk / Peter Spellane
  • 15. Sparking Student Scholarship Through Urban Ethnography / Kenneth J. Guest
  • 16. Building Community in Professional Education: Team Learning by Design / Carol M. Connell.

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