Impact/Impasse: Revaluing University Classroom Life
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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. [From the publisher]
ISBN
9781438498188
Publication Date
6-2024
Publisher
Suny Press
City
Albany, NY
Disciplines
Critical and Cultural Studies | Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research | Higher Education
Recommended Citation
Smithers, Laura A.; Fischer, Heidi; and Watrous, Faith A., "Impact/Impasse: Revaluing University Classroom Life" (2024). STEMPS Faculty Books. 12.
https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/stemps_books/12