Category: Pedagogy
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New book explores the critical role of school libraries in improving student literacy and emotional welfare
New book explores the critical role of school libraries in improving student literacy and emotional welfare Facet Publishing announce the publication of School Libraries Supporting Literacy and Wellbeing Published today, Dr Margaret K Merga’s new book School Libraries Supporting Literacy and Wellbeing gives much-needed consideration to the role that school libraries and their staff play…
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Mapping Pedagogies
Can you teach something you essentially created? As a Graduate student at Emory University I developed my own digital mapping methodology for my research. I introduce data visualization into literary analysis to examine how Francophone women writers present radically subversive narratives of colonized spaces in Indochina, West Africa, and the Americas. During my graduate career, I received great…
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Digital Projects and Student Engagement in the Era of COVID-19
Anyone teaching this year knows how challenging it continues to be in the era of COVID-19. Wasn’t 2020-2021 supposed to be the most difficult year for educators?! Throughout most of the pandemic, I’ve taught World Studies at the secondary level. I’ve observed students struggling to adjust to unfamiliar structures, where they seem unsure about how…
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Process as Digital Pedagogy
In the fall of 2021, our HASTAC cohort merged with another Emory digital scholarship initiative, the digital dissertation fellowship. Though our missions differ slightly (HASTAC is more concerned with public-facing scholarship while digital dissertation fellows are building a digital component to their dissertation) our goals are the same: integrating digital methods and tools into humanities…
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“I really don’t care, do u:” Performances of Care and Conjuring American Exceptionalism
On June 21st, 2018, Melania Trump boarded a plane to visit an immigration detention center in Texas holding immigrant children who were separated from their families. Melania Trump’s supposed reason for the visit was to see the facilities for herself after she had lobbied her husband, then President Donald Trump, to change his policy on…
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What teaching writing taught me about my own work
When I was younger, I used to weave fantasies about what it might be like to be a writer when I grew up. I read voraciously at the time, with no discerning taste. My writing was similarly haphazard. I drew from the styles of authors I fell in love with. First Tamora Pierce and J.D.…
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New guide for educators in optimising independence in sixth form learning
For immediate release 1 November 2021 New guide for educators in optimising independence in sixth form learning Facet Publishing announce the publication of Facilitating Effective Sixth Form Independent Learning by Andrew K. Shenton For young people who have opted to continue their education post-sixteen, it is difficult to overstate the importance of the independent learning…
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How Does Your Grad Dept Prepare Students to Teach? An Open, Crowdsourced @HASTAC Project
You’re invited to contribute! In 2019, we crowdsourced a document and collected twenty-nine pages of information on “Graduate Programs Requiring Instruction In Teaching (inc For-Credit Courses)” . The document includes user-supplied information on graduate programs across the US and Canada, in many fields (at a glance, I see English, Psychology, Public Health, Spanish, Neuroscience, etc)…
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101 Student-centered Syllabus for Intentional & Accessible Learning
Instructor: Nik Valdez, they/them/theirs Class Meeting: Monday 3:30-4:15 Office Hours: Monday 3-3:30 or by appointment Email: Land Acknowledgements: The City College of New York remains settled on the sacred land of the Munsee Lenape & Wappinger Peoples. The Graduate Center remains settled on the sacred land of the Munsee Lenape Peoples. Languages: huluníixsuwaakan (Munsee),…
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Announcing Upddated Edition of The New Education (Coming Spring 2022)
I’m so pleased to announce that Basic Books is publishing a new, updated version of “The New Education” (2017), in paper, with a new Introduction. The new version–with its bold new cover–also includes an appendix that supplements the “how to do college” for students and “how to improve teaching” for professors with a “how to…