Minding Bodies: How Physical Space, Sensation, and Movement Affect Learning

Author(s): Hrach, S.
Date: 2021
Publication: West Virginia Press
Citation: Hrach, S. (2021). Minding Bodies: How Physical Space, Sensation, and Movement Affect Learning. West Virginia Press. https://wvupressonline.com/node/866.
Section on webpage: General Teaching and Course Development
Tenets: Concern with materiality (bodies, labor, not just virtual and discursive). Promoting cooperative learning. Humanizing online teaching/learning. Creating cultures of care in online classrooms. Examining (dis)embodiment in virtual teaching/learning.
Annotation: “Starting from new research on the body—aptly summarized as ‘sitting is the new smoking’—Minding Bodies aims to help instructors improve their students’ knowledge and skills through physical movement, attention to the spatial environment, and sensitivity to humans as more than “brains on sticks.” It shifts the focus of adult learning from an exclusively mental effort toward an embodied, sensory-rich experience, offering new strategies to maximize the effectiveness of time spent learning together on campus as well as remotely.”

 

Toward an Ethic of Care and Inclusivity in Emergency E-Learning

Author(s): Hutchison, E.
Date: 2020
Publication: PS: Political Science & Politics
Citation: Hutchison, E. (2020). Toward an Ethic of Care and Inclusivity in Emergency E-Learning. PS: Political Science & Politics, 17–19. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1049096520001602.
Section on webpage: General Teaching and Course Development
Tenets: Building equity, trust, mutual respect, and support. Examining how gender, intersecting with other social categories, structures our lives, learning, and knowledge production, access to resources and information. Uncovering the causes of inequality and leveraging resources toward undoing power structures. Honoring diversity and lived experiences through intersectional approaches. Using technology intentionally to build communities and enhance learning.
Annotation: In this article, the author shares tools for making the online classroom more inclusive and engaging for students. The strategies focus on utilizing new advancements in higher education pedagogy and fostering a collaborative environment between students.

 

Care and Culturally Responsive Pedagogy in Online Settings

Author(s): Kyei-Blankson, L. Blankson, J. & Ntuli, E.
Date: 2019
Publication: IGI Global
Citation: Kyei-Blankson, L., Blankson, J., & Ntuli, E. (2019). Care and Culturally Responsive Pedagogy in Online Settings. IGI Global. https://www.igi-global.com/book/care-culturally-responsive-pedagogy-online/210215.
Section on webpage: General Teaching and Course Development
Tenets: Building equity, trust, mutual respect, and support. Examining how gender, intersecting with other social categories, structures our lives, learning, and knowledge production, access to resources and information. Uncovering the causes of inequality and leveraging resources toward undoing power structures. Cultivating self-care and boundaries. Humanizing online teaching/learning. Creating cultures of care in online classrooms. Using technology intentionally to build communities and enhance learning.
Annotation: As enrollment numbers continue to grow for online education classes, it is imperative instructors be prepared to teach students from diverse groups. Students who engage in learning in classrooms where their backgrounds are recognized and the instruction is welcoming and all-inclusive perform better. Individuals who teach in online settings must endeavor to create caring and culturally appropriate environments to encourage learning among all students irrespective of their demographic composition. Care and Culturally Responsive Pedagogy in Online Settings is a collection of innovative research on the incorporation of culturally sensitive teaching practices in online classrooms, and how these methods have had an impact on student learning. While highlighting topics including faculty teaching, restorative justice, and nontraditional students, this book is ideally designed for instructors, researchers, instructional designers, administrators, policymakers, and students seeking current research on online educators incorporating care and culturally responsive pedagogy into practice.

 

How to Engage Students in a Hybrid Classroom

Author(s): McMurtrie, B.
Date: 2020
Publication: The Chronicle of Higher Education
Citation: McMurtrie, B. (2020). How to Engage Students in a Hybrid Classroom. The Chronicle of Higher Education. https://www.chronicle.com/article/How-to-Engage-Students-in-a/249143?utm_source=at&utm_medium=en&utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=campaign_1354380&cid=at&source=ams&sourceId=5192809.
Section on webpage: General Teaching and Course Development
Tenets: Treating students as agentic co-educators. Building equity, trust, mutual respect, and support. Promoting cooperative learning. Humanizing online teaching/learning. Using technology intentionally to build communities and enhance learning.
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Going Online in a Hurry: What to Do and Where to Start

Author(s): Miller, M. D.
Date: 2020
Publication: The Chronicle of Higher Education
Citation: Miller, M. D. (2020). Going Online in a Hurry: What to Do and Where to Start. The Chronicle of Higher Education. https://www.chronicle.com/article/Going-Online-in-a-Hurry-What/248207.
Section on webpage: General Teaching and Course Development
Tenets: Promoting cooperative learning. Using technology intentionally to build communities and enhance learning.
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An Urgency of Teachers: the Work of Critical Digital Pedagogy

Author(s): Morris, S. M. & Stommel, J.
Date: 2018
Publication: Hybrid Pedagogy
Citation: Morris, S. M., & Stommel, J. (2018). An Urgency of Teachers: the Work of Critical Digital Pedagogy. Hybrid Pedagogy. https://urgencyofteachers.com/.
Section on webpage: General Teaching and Course Development
Tenets: Humanizing online teaching/learning. Creating cultures of care in online classrooms.
Annotation: Too many approaches to teaching with technology are instrumental at best, devoid of heart and soul at worst. The role of the teacher is made impersonal and mechanistic by a desire for learning to be efficient and standardized. Solutionist approaches like the learning management system, the rubric, quality assurance, all but remove the will of the teacher to be compassionate, curious, and to be a learner alongside their students.As the authors write in their introduction: “It is urgent that we have teachers. In a political climate increasingly defined by obstinacy, lack of criticality, and deflection of fact and care; in a society still divided across lines of race, nationality, religion, gender, sexuality, income, ability, and privilege; in a digital culture shaped by algorithms that neither know nor accurately portray truth, teaching has an important (urgent) role to play.”This collection of essays explores the authors’ work in, inquiry into, and critique of online learning, educational technology, and the trends, techniques, hopes, fears, and possibilities of digital pedagogy. The ideas of this volume span almost two decades of pedagogical thinking, practice, outreach, community development, and activism.

 

Teaching with Tenderness: toward an Embodied Practice

Author(s): Thompson, B. W.
Date: 2017
Publication: University of Illinois Press
Citation: Thompson, B. W. (2017). Teaching with Tenderness: toward an Embodied Practice. University of Illinois Press. https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/45hss6kk9780252041167.html.
Section on webpage: General Teaching and Course Development
Tenets: Building equity, trust, mutual respect, and support. Cultivating self-care and boundaries. Humanizing online teaching/learning. Creating cultures of care in online classrooms. Examining (dis)embodiment in virtual teaching/learning.
Annotation: Teaching with Tenderness follows in the tradition of bell hooks’s Teaching to Transgress and Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed, inviting us to draw upon contemplative practices (yoga, meditation, free writing, mindfulness, ritual) to keep our hearts open as we reckon with multiple injustices. Teaching with tenderness makes room for emotion, offers a witness for experiences people have buried, welcomes silence, breath and movement, and sees justice as key to our survival. It allows us to rethink our relationship to grading, office hours, desks, and faculty meetings, sees paradox as a constant companion, moves us beyond binaries; and praises self and community care. Tenderness examines contemporary challenges to teaching about race, gender, class, nationality, sexuality, religion, and other hierarchies. It examines the ethical, emotional, political, and spiritual challenges of teaching power-laden, charged issues and the consequences of shifting power relations in the classroom and in the community. Attention to current contributions in the areas of contemplative practices, trauma theory, multiracial feminist pedagogy, and activism enable us to envision steps toward a pedagogy of liberation. The book encourages active engagement and makes room for self-reflective learning, teaching, and scholarship.