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Impact/Impasse: Revaluing University Classroom Life

Impact/Impasse: Revaluing University Classroom Life

Hardcover

General EducationTeaching Instruction

ISBN10: 1438498187
ISBN13: 9781438498188
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Jun 1 2024
Pages: 224
Weight: 1.11
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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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