
Joy-Centered Pedagogy in Higher Education
Uplifting Teaching and Learning for All
- 280 pages
- English
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Joy-Centered Pedagogy in Higher Education
Uplifting Teaching and Learning for All
About this book
Emerging from a rich tapestry of educational theory, practical advice, and personal narrative, Joy-Centered Pedagogy in Higher Education introduces joy as a catalyst for transformative teaching and learning experiences.
This text names joy as an essential source of abundance and vitality that can be intentionally cultivated in the classroom to activate a sense of mattering, resilience, and engagement. In a series of reflective essays and teaching stories, contributors explore how promoting joy shifts the learning focus from product to process and disrupts notions of rigor that suggest learning should hurt. Each chapter includes reflection questions to guide reader contemplation. The Appendix offers aggregated practitioner-focused suggestions, detailing key joy-centered pedagogies with specific callouts to chapters that directly apply the technique.
College instructors, faculty developers, and education scholars alike will find the insights and actionable solutions offered in this book invaluable for promoting deep, meaningful learning and mutual flourishing.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Endorsement
- Half-Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Preface: A Joyful Welcome
- 1 Introducing Joy-Centered Pedagogy
- 2 Disrupting the Culture of Fear: Finding Joy for Students and Educators in a K–12 Setting and Its Implications for Higher Education
- 3 Transforming Trauma: The Joy of Student-Written Stand-Up Comedy
- 4 Choosing Joy over Dread: Bringing Art, Playfulness, and Agency to Learning
- 5 Joyful Justice
- 6 The Joy Is in the Inclusive (Teaching) Journey
- 7 Struggling Together: How Activating Student Resilience Promotes Joyful Responses to Computer Coding Challenges
- 8 Re-membering: Personhood, Joy, and the Body in Education
- 9 The Joy of Embodied Learning
- 10 The Joy of Unlearning Failure to Promote Student Resilience
- 11 Overcoming STEM Imposter Syndrome through Joyful Curiosity
- 12 Celebrating Silence: Making Space for Quiet Joy in the Classroom
- 13 Embracing Anger to Find Joyful Agency: Experiments in Communal Vulnerability
- 14 We Don’t Have to Be Heroes: The Joys of Pedagogical “Quick Wins” and Community to Disrupt STEM Instructor Burnout
- 15 Joy: A Compass through Failure
- Appendix: Teaching Tips to Spark Joy in Your Classroom
- Author Biographies
- Index