Queer students are in higher education to learn just as much as non-queer students are. When attending a class, most queer students want to feel a part of the class cohort, rather than a teacher to … Continue reading...
Category: Teaching Stories
An interview with… Hartmut Rosa
Part of the Resonance Pedagogy series, visit the home page.
Dr Christophe Fricker interviews Professor Hartmut Rosa, a professor of sociology at the University of Jena, working within the tradition of critical theory. He is known for his theory of … Continue reading...
Resonance Pedagogy: turning schools into resonant spaces
Article by Wolfgang Endres, translated by Christophe Fricker, Part of the Resonance Pedagogy series, visit the home page.
How research made time for resonant relationships
Technology helps us save time and yet, we never have any. Sociologist Hartmut Rosa … Continue reading...
Resonance Pedagogy 101
Part of the Resonance Pedagogy series, visit the home page.
This interview is part of Hartmut Rosa and Wolfgang Endres’s book “Resonanzpädagogik: Wenn es im Klassenzimmer knistert”, Weinheim: Beltz, 2016. The English translation is by Christophe Fricker. Publication with kind … Continue reading...
The ABC of Effective Teaching
Of the many challenges presented by teaching, answering the elusive question ‘what is the most effective teaching approach?’ is one of the most demanding.
A significant impediment to discovering the answer and one that novice and experienced teachers will attest … Continue reading...
Lightening the load to optimise learning
Information overload is a challenge for everyone in the hyper-connected world in which we live and can impact many aspects of our lives, from our general wellbeing to our daily ability to function effectively.
This experience is also true of … Continue reading...
Ramblings delivered at the Earth Sciences and Engineering graduation, 12.04.22
This ovation, delivered by Dr Mary Benton, was given at a recently graduation ceremony where she reflected on the impact of the pandemic on our teaching.
By late March 2020 the city was almost silent but for the sound of … Continue reading...
Publishing a book in a year: May
If April was about not giving up, May is about throwing in the towel. I’m done. Now let’s be clear, I’m not done with writing a book in a year, oh no no, I’m done with regenerative design.
You see … Continue reading...
Publishing a book in a year: April
It’s just happened again. Someone asks me what I’m working on and I explain that I’m writing a book about regenerative design. The inevitable next two questions come:
First, what is regenerative design?
Second, can you give me an example?… Continue reading...
What’s past (and present) is prologue: considering changes to secondary assessment
In secondary schools in England at the moment, students are preparing for public examinations which may represent the final assessment adaptations to Covid-19.
Undergraduates who have studied in the UK and are now in their first and second years may … Continue reading...