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Makes a case for the value-and ultimately impact-of seemingly mundane moments in college classrooms.

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.

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Book category Books in German Sozialwissenschaften, Recht, Wirtschaft Soziologie Methoden der empirischen und qualitativen Sozialforschung

• Full title: Impact/Impasse
• Author: Heidi Fischer, Faith A Watrous
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224
• EAN: 9781438498195
• ISBN: 1438498195
• ID: 46643978
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Weight: 227 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 25 mm
• Date of publishing: 02. December 2024

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