Impact/Impasse : Revaluing University Classroom Life
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| Title: | Impact/Impasse : Revaluing University Classroom Life |
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| Description: | Makes a case for the value—and ultimately impact—of seemingly mundane moments in college classrooms.Impact/Impasse argues for the value of everyday life in college classrooms. Quantifiable categories such as high-impact practice, student engagement, and integrative learning have captured the imagination of a generation of higher education researchers, practitioners, administrators, and policymakers. But they miss those mundane moments, or'impasses,'that resist capture by metrics while nevertheless shaping student outcomes. Impact/Impasse blends critical theories and ethnographic research-conducted before and during the COVID-19 pandemic-to argue that learning happens in ordinary moments. Indeed, in sharing anecdotes from both in-person and virtual classrooms, the coauthors show how the so-called new normal is little different from the old in its neoliberal attachment to data. Impact/Impasse provides a conceptual and practical foundation for an alternative approach to valuing impacts on their own terms, in excess of quantification. |
| Authors: | Laura Smithers, Heidi Fischer, Faith A. Watrous |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | College teaching--United States--Case studies |
| Categories: | EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Higher, EDUCATION / Evaluation & Assessment, EDUCATION / Research, EDUCATION / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Methodology |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | Makes a case for the value—and ultimately impact—of seemingly mundane moments in college classrooms.Impact/Impasse argues for the value of everyday life in college classrooms. Quantifiable categories such as high-impact practice, student engagement, and integrative learning have captured the imagination of a generation of higher education researchers, practitioners, administrators, and policymakers. But they miss those mundane moments, or'impasses,'that resist capture by metrics while nevertheless shaping student outcomes. Impact/Impasse blends critical theories and ethnographic research-conducted before and during the COVID-19 pandemic-to argue that learning happens in ordinary moments. Indeed, in sharing anecdotes from both in-person and virtual classrooms, the coauthors show how the so-called new normal is little different from the old in its neoliberal attachment to data. Impact/Impasse provides a conceptual and practical foundation for an alternative approach to valuing impacts on their own terms, in excess of quantification. |
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| ISBN: | 9781438498188 9781438498195 9781438498201 |
