A pedagogy of kindness / Catherine J. Denial.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Denial, Catherine J., 1971- author.

Series:

Teaching, engaging, and thriving in higher ed

Teaching, engaging, and thriving in higher ed ; volume 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

College teaching--Methodology.

College teaching.

College students--United States--Social conditions.

College students.

Education, Higher--Social aspects--United States.

Education, Higher.

Kindness.

Physical Description:

xi, 151 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Norman, OK : University of Oklahoma Press, [2024]

Summary:

""Articulating a fresh vision for teaching, one that focuses on ensuring justice, believing people, and believing in people, this how-to offers evidence-based insights and draws from the author's own rich experiences as a professor to provide practical tips for reshaping syllabi, assessing student performance, and creating trust and belonging in the classroom"-Provided by publisher"-- Provided by publisher.

"Academia is not, by and large, a kind place. Individualism and competition are what count. But without kindness at its core, Catherine Denial suggests, higher education fails students and instructors-and its mission-in critical ways. Part manifesto, part teaching memoir, part how-to guide, A Pedagogy of Kindness urges higher education to get aggressive about instituting kindness, which Denial distinguishes from niceness. Having suffered beneath the weight of just "getting along," instructors need to shift every part of what they do to prioritizing care and compassion-for students as well as for themselves. A Pedagogy of Kindness articulates a fresh vision for teaching, one that focuses on ensuring justice, believing people, and believing in people. Offering evidence-based insights and drawing from her own rich experiences as a professor, Denial offers practical tips for reshaping syllabi, assessing student performance, and creating trust and belonging in the classroom. Her suggestions for concrete, scalable actions outline nothing less than a transformational discipline-one in which, together, we create bright new spaces, rooted in compassion, in which all engaged in teaching and learning might thrive. "-- Provided by publisher.

"Articulating a fresh vision for teaching, one that focuses on ensuring justice, believing people, and believing in people, this how-to offers evidence-based insights and draws from the author's own rich experiences as a professor to provide practical tips for reshaping syllabi, assessing student performance, and creating trust and belonging in the classroom"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Kindness toward the self

Kindness and the syllabus

Kindness and assessment

Kindness in the classroom.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780806193847

0806193840

9780806193854

0806193859

OCLC:

1425848487

Publisher Number:

90100081331