Category: Pedagogy

  • Chapter 6: Literature as a Learning Tool (review by R.D. Snyder)

    Part of the Collaborative Book Review of Structuring Equality: Handbook for Student-Centered Learning. The book is available here. This post reviews Chapter 6, “Literature as a Learning Tool: A Lesson Plan” by Nicky Hutchins. In “Literature as a Learning Tool,” Nicky Hutchins seeks to use peer review to engage students in more meaningful responses to literature. Drawing on primary and secondary school […]

  • Chapter 3: The Atlanta Compromise, Reacting to the Past (review by Emily Esten)

    Part of the Collaborative Book Review of Structuring Equality: Handbook for Student-Centered Learning. The book is available here. This post reviews Chapter 3, “The Atlanta Compromise, Reacting to the Past” by Iris Finkel. In its efforts to center student learning, Finkel’s chapter argues that the “Reacting to the Past” (RTTP) game framework encourages student participation and reflection while engaging with history. Pioneered […]

  • The New Education: How To Revolutionize the University to Prepare Students for a World in Flux

    The New Education: How To Revolutionize the University to Prepare Students for a World in Flux

    I am thrilled to announce that I now have the bound galleys of The New Education:  How To Revolutionize the University to Prepare Students for a World in Flux.  The book will be published by Basic Books on September 5, 2017.   The title of the book is the same one Charles Eliot used for his […]

  • DH in the Classroom at the University of Miami: Revealing New Dimensions

    DH in the Classroom at the University of Miami: Revealing New Dimensions

    Over the course of the 2016-2017 academic year, several University of Miami Humanities instructors have boldly experimented with digital tools in undergraduate classrooms to find out what new affordances these tools offer. Three such instructors, Dr. Krista Goff, Brad Rittenhouse, and Marta Gierczyk, experienced successful results with the mapping and text mining tools they used. […]

  • My Five Best, Easiest Active Learning Tactics for Reflection

    My Five Best, Easiest Active Learning Tactics for Reflection

    This morning I had a back-and-forth Twitter conversation with my brilliant colleague Jade Davis on the importance (or lack of same) of “reflection” or what is sometimes called “meta-cognition.”   I grew weary of trying to explain the different active learning techniques I use for reflection via 140-character tweets so I’m switching to blog land for […]

  • Differences in academic culture

    Dear HASTAC community,  I am a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology in Brazil and have been working as a visiting scholar at the Graduate Center – CUNY for 2+ years. In my first year in the US, I have felt some difficulties in adjusting to the dynamics of a new academic environment, which I found out […]

  • Teaching Theories of Gender, Race, and Literary and Expressive Culture

    Teaching Theories of Gender, Race, and Literary and Expressive Culture Maxine Krenzel, Chy Sprauve, Anna Zeemont In Cathy Davidson and Michael Gillespie’s course “Teaching Race and Gender Theory in the Undergraduate Humanities Classroom,” our group was assigned the task of creating lesson plans and student-centered learning activities that engaged both literary and expressive culture through […]

  • The Top Tactics for Creating a More Engaged Classroom FREE Download

    I’m honored that my teaching is featured in an ebook that was released today by  Philip Preville’s, The Top Tactics for Creating a More Engaged Classroom. :  https://tophat.com/resources/13-most-innovative-professors-in-north-america/ The e-book is focused on three aspects of teaching—improving the beginning of class and getting off to a good start; taking the pain out of evaluation (for […]

  • “Teaching to Transgress”: Vulnerability, Demystification, and Identity in the Classroom

    Group One: Pedagogy, Teaching to Transgress, and Intersectionality chose to focus our two-week workshop on strategies for cultivating vulnerability, critical inquiry, and liberatory pedagogy. We integrated both individual and group activities into our learning practices, and we’ve included our collaborative syllabus, to which we welcome contributions. Here, we’ve included a few strategies and notes from our […]

  • Brief interview with Dr. Sara Beaudrie professor of Heritage Language Pedagogy, ASU

    Brief interview with Dr. Sara Beaudrie professor of Heritage Language Pedagogy, ASU As some people reading this may know, heritage speakers/students have become increasingly discussed among both scholars and pedagogues alike. Heritage students are bilinguals who grew up in a context where their minority language coexists with English as the dominant language, e.g. Spanish and […]