Revitalizing Classrooms

Jeffery Galle is Associate Professor of English, founding Director of the Center for Academic Excellence, and organizer of IPLA at Oxford College of Emory University. Co-author of How to Be a ‘HIP’ Campus: Maximizing Learning in Undergraduate Education (2015) and Interdisciplinary Approaches to Pedagogy and Place-Based Education: From Abstract to Quotidian (forthcoming May 2017), Galle’s scholarship focuses on pedagogies involving active learning, particularly those associated with experiential learning, place, and inquiry. Rebecca L. Harrison, Associate Professor of English and Director of STEAM English at the University of West Georgia, teaches courses in Southern women writers, American literature, pedagogy, and secondary English education. A women’s literature specialist, Harrison has published on writers such as Eudora Welty and Beatrice Witte Ravenel, alongside her work on active pedagogies; her recent book Inhabiting La Patria, a critical collection on Julia Alvarez, was published by SUNY Press in 2013.

At a time when, despite lip service, teaching is woefully undervalued in much of higher education, Oxford College of Emory University’s Institute for Pedagogy in the Liberal Arts honors committed, innovative, and successful teaching and teachers. These essays reflect some of the best sessions from IPLA over the years and provide the reader with powerful and successful models for improving their teaching, and, more importantly, through that teaching improving student learning.

• Dedication Foreword—Virginia S. LeeAcknowledgements Introduction: Ways of Inquiry—Pathways and Partnerships for Grassroots Innovation Jeff Galle and Rebecca L. HarrisonChapter 1: Moving Pictures and Words: Multimodal Projects in College CompositionLaura Ng and Karen ReddingChapter 2: Reacting to the Past and What it Means TodayLinda Hughes Chapter 3: PBL and Collaborative Learning in the Complex Learning of Solar GeometryBronne DytocChapter 4: Discovering Empirical Patterns in the Social Sciences: Small Assignments with Web-Based Data in Introductory Classes Thomas D. LancasterChapter 5: The Ethics of the A-Bomb Pangratios PapacostaChapter 6: A Tale of Two Beneficiaries: Using Inquiry-Guided Learning to Foster Social Research Skills and Critical ThinkingLyndi Hewitt and Lorena RussellAbout the ContributorsIndex