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Impact/impasse : revaluing university classroom life / Laura E. Smithers, Heidi Fischer, and Faith A. Watrous.

Makes a case for the value--and ultimately impact--of seemingly mundane moments in college classrooms.

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Bibliographic Details
Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Authors: Smithers, Laura E., 1982- (Author), Fischer, Heidi, 1979- (Author), Watrous, Faith A., 1975- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2024]
Subjects:
College teaching > United States > Case studies.
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Preface: New Normals
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Everything is Anecdote
  • The Problem: Our Values
  • A Problem: Impact
  • Our Way Forward (Or Around and Around): Impasse
  • Value and Revaluing: Everything is Anecdote
  • The Structure of This Book
  • To the Impasse
  • Chapter One: Impact (2019-20)
  • Education Before the Call to Order
  • I.
  • II.
  • III.
  • IV.
  • V.
  • VI.
  • VII.
  • VIII.
  • IX.
  • X.
  • XI.
  • XII.
  • Engagement
  • Connections
  • Progress Report
  • First Day, Take One
  • Smells Like Team Spirit
  • That Which Comes Before Denouement
  • Pizza Party
  • The Peer Mentors' Tales
  • Smith, Marx, and Engels
  • Start-istics
  • Postgraduation Employment Options
  • Origin Story, Part I
  • Student Success
  • On the Hunt
  • More Engaged
  • Temporal Student Engagements
  • Buzz
  • Competing Priorities
  • Lecture Format
  • Quiz Anxiety
  • Body without Organs
  • Ordinary Fidgets
  • Ordinary Impact
  • Buzz
  • You Get a Point, and You Get a Point
  • They're Just Not About It
  • First Day, Take Two
  • Impact
  • Imperceptible Impacts
  • Debrief
  • Origin Story, Part II
  • Why Are All the White Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
  • Chapter Two: Change (2019-20)
  • Swipe Up, Swipe Down
  • A Lesson
  • The Starting Line-Up
  • "The Furniture We Are Forever Rearranging"
  • A Carrot but No Stick
  • A Student's Definition of a Learning Community
  • Halfway
  • Teach the Teacher
  • Third Space, Part I
  • Documenting Effective Educational Practices, Local
  • Outside In
  • Caught
  • Monolithic Structuring Devices
  • More Notes on Lecture Format
  • And Now a Word about a Prospective Major Path
  • Performance Expectations Set at Appropriately High Levels
  • Noise
  • Meerkats
  • A Conversation about Inequality
  • Coordination
  • Redirect
  • What Does Buzz Do?
  • New Contributors
  • Waiting for a Moment
  • What's in a Name?
  • Colorful
  • Public Demonstration of Competence
  • Striving toward the Pinnacle
  • Alignment
  • Defiance
  • Peer Mentor Time
  • Faculty Connections
  • Third Space, Part II
  • Groupwork
  • Toward a Definition
  • Space
  • Making Connections
  • Zooming Along
  • Follow Up
  • In Between
  • The Digital Order of Things
  • Chapter Three: Difference (2020-21)
  • Zoom Tile Life
  • Muted Classroom Life
  • (Une Piè€ce de) Resistance
  • Craft Time
  • First Day, Take Two: Zoom Edition
  • No Ambiguity
  • Value As Affirmation
  • Chat(ter)
  • Talk to Me
  • In Contrast
  • T he Design Canvas
  • Virtual Events
  • Teaching Station
  • Another Day, Another Zoom Room
  • Lather, Rinse, Repeat
  • Are They Listening?
  • Hierarchy
  • Yay Zoom
  • Individual Group Work
  • Class Discussion
  • Same but Different
  • Use Resources Wisely
  • Liberal Education as Fabulation
  • The New Engagement
  • Beneficial Extra-Curriculars
  • Distractions
  • Ennui, Part I
  • Faculty Workshop Goals
  • Zoom
  • Random Moments
  • Wonderings
  • And Monotony
  • Confusion
  • Lecture Format, Part II
  • Zoning Out
  • Reflection
  • Musings
  • What's the Buzz?

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