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.
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.
Tabela de Conteúdo
Preface: New NormalsIntroduction: Everything is Anecdote
1. Impact (2019–20)
2. Change (2019–20)
3. Difference (2020–21)
4. Engagement (2019–20)
5. Impasse (2020–21)
Afterword: Values
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Sobre o autor
Laura A. Smithers is Assistant Professor of Higher Education Leadership at the University of Nevada, Reno.Heidi Fischer is Content Director at Hanover Research. She is the author of
Unemployment: The German Case, A Critical Analysis of Political Discourse.
Faith A. Watrous is a doctoral candidate in Educational Psychology and Program Evaluation at Old Dominion University.
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