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""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]

Table of Contents:

• Kindness toward the self
• Kindness and the syllabus
• Kindness and assessment
• Kindness in the classroom.

Author/Creator:

Denial, Catherine J., 1971- , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

A pedagogy of kindness [by Denial, C.J.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Pedagogy of kindness [by Denial, C.J.] (Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [2024] — ISBN 9780806193847; LCCN 2023053653; OCLC Number 1425848487)

Related Series:

Teaching, engaging, and thriving in higher ed; v. 1

Subjects:

College teaching — Methodology

College students — United States — Social conditions

Education, Higher — Social aspects — United States

Kindness

College teaching

College students — Social conditions

College students

Education, Higher — Social aspects

Education, Higher

United States

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-145) and index.
Description based on: Print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 151 pages).

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

LB2331 .D426 2024eb

ISBNs:

9780806194332 (electronic bk.)
0806194332 (electronic bk.)
0806193840 [Invalid]
9780806193847 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1434560464