Innovative Approaches in Pedagogy for Higher Education Classrooms
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This book volume highlights case studies and innovative teaching methods used by academics across the globe. It talks about how teaching staff should stimulate students' active engagement in their own learning processes leading to transformative student learning, and discusses the in-class approach of implementing a high-quality project-based learning activity that integrates learning in an authentic real-world manner. Chapters are dedicated to experiential learning which encourages critical thinking and creative problem-solving skills in students which becomes the essence of innovative teaching learning methods. Academics are applying these methods to ensure that the student learning process is free flowing and stimulates students towards role playing and mastering problem-based learning.
PART I: ACTIVE ENGAGEMENT
- Introduction to Innovative Approaches in Pedagogy for Higher Education Classrooms; Enakshi Sengupta and Patrick Blessinger
- Chapter 1. Innovative Teaching and Creative Learning in a Sport Tourism Curriculum: A Portuguese Case of Experiential Learning; Ana Baptista and Elsa Pereira
- Chapter 2. Project Based Learning in the Adult English Language Classroom; Cheryl Cruz
- Chapter 3. Lesson Study and Teacher Training: Engaging in the Co-Construction of Pedagogical Knowledge; David Allan
- Chapter 4. Initiating Innovation: The Case of Entrepreneurship Education in The United Arab Emirates; Matthew A. Gilbert
- Chapter 5. Active Images: Teaching Students Critical Thinking and Analysis Skills with Picture Postcards; Reba A. Wissner
- PART II: INNOVATIVE APPROACHES
- Chapter 6. Retreat Forwards: Student - Facing Writing Retreats; Christopher Little
- Chapter 7. Innovations in the Academic Language Classroom International Foundation Programme; Jill Haldane and Philip Davies
- Chapter 8. Strategies for Developing Mental Toughness in Higher Education and Measuring the Impact; Jenny Meggs and Peter Sewell
- Chapter 9. The XJTLU Entrepreneurial Campus: A New Paradigm of University-Industry Partnerships; Stuart Perrin
This book holds nine stirring chapters of innovative teaching pedagogy and learning which exemplify different parts of world. Contribution from each author shows how innovative approach in teaching and learning has facilitated students learn different, better and more. For those involved in higher education, there is a lot to gain from this book such as, project-based learning, pedagogy that encourages critical thinking, creative problem solving and unique industry - university partnership promoting entrepreneurial education. This book emphasizes that education is path to innovation, as pointed by John Dewey - 'If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.'
Enakshi Sengupta serves as the Director Centre for Teaching and Learning and Interim Chair- Business at American University of Afghanistan.
Patrick Blessinger is adjunct associate professor of education at St. John's University, USA. He is also the chief research scientist of the International Higher Education Teaching and Learning Association.