Description
Book SynopsisDisaster Pedagogy for Higher Education serves as an all-purpose, contextually grounded, and multi-modal introduction to teaching in higher education during times of crisis and disaster. The text covers a wide variety of topics such as classroom pedagogy, emergency management, and study abroad, from a variety of contributors including professors, administrators, adjunct faculty, and students. It is organized into the three sections: Research and Criticism, which contains three essays that highlight original research and scholarly critique of topics related to higher education during disaster; Explorations and Examinations, consisting of five essays that focus on best practices of a specific aspect of higher education during disaster; and Personal and Professional Reflections, made up of six essays that provide a more personal look into how disasters have impacted faculty, administration, and students in the academy.
Trade ReviewDisaster Pedagogy for Higher Education is a must-read for improved understanding of the multi-dimensional, reverberating impact of natural and manufactured disasters. While intended for those who teach, learn and support in post-secondary settings, the revelatory honesty of the authors regarding lessons learned about self, others, the environment, resource needs, survivorship, and resilience is adaptable to life-altering emergencies in other settings. Leveraging academic content, personal narrative, relevant research and literature, accommodative and innovative pedagogies, and equitable care, the authors’ weaving of competing real-world variables demonstrates the need for intentionality in resolving any disruptive event and proactive responsiveness to its ongoing impact on self, others and our world. I consider Disaster Pedagogy a critical reference for any future emergency management effort I undertake.
-- Ira K. Blake, PhD, Special Assistant to the Chancellor for University of Houston System Initiatives
Disaster Pedagogy for Higher Education is an essential resource for university educators in a time when disruptions are occurring more and more frequently. The editors have put together a comprehensive collection that contains original research, best practices, and personal reflections and delves into some of the most relevant aspects of higher education. As the Provost of the #1 ranked university for excellence in undergraduate teaching and the only college ranked in the top-20 in all eight categories of U. S. News and World Report “Focus of Student Success” high-impact academic programs, I can say that I wish I had this text to share with faculty before the COVID pandemic; moreover, I will be sharing it for years to come.
-- Aswani K. Volety, PhD, Provost, Vice President for Academic Affairs, and Professor of Biology, Elon University
This is an indispensable book for higher education professionals in an era marked by disasters driven by climate change, viruses, and racism among other forces. Regardless of the institutional positions that readers inhabit, everyone involved in higher education will learn from reading and reflecting on the research and insights that Malo-Juvera, Laudadio and their colleagues have collected in this volume.
-- Martha Kalnin Diede, PhD, Director, Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence, Syracuse University
Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION
Nicholas Laudadio and Victor Malo-Juvera
Research and Criticism
CHAPTER 1
Give Me Liberty or Give Me a Mask: Pandemic Anti-Masking as Anti-Science Discourse
Addie Sayers
CHAPTER 2
Education in Times of Crises: The Ontological Imperative in Considering the Role of Technology Adoption in Remote Educational Settings
Hannah R. Gerber
CHAPTER 3
From Meteorological Uncertainty to Missing Muffins: How University Emergency Managers Manage Uncertainty as a Hurricane Response Strategy
Ian R. Weaver
Explorations and Examinations
CHAPTER 4
Nimble Pedagogies for A Liquid Time: Disruption, Accommodation, Collaboration, Reinvention, and Compromise
Diana Ashe and Colleen Reilly
CHAPTER 5
Studying Abroad During a Time of Disaster: An Exploration of Pitfalls, Pivots, and Possibilities for the Future
Kara Pike Inman, Nicole Desjardins Gowdy, and Jason Kinnear
CHAPTER 6
Thinking Through Disasters: Critical Analysis and Research in College Composition Courses
Melissa Sexton
CHAPTER 7
How Do You Learn to Teach When You Can’t Go to School? Teaching Teachers in the Age of Virtual Living
Alice Hays, Jouselin Martin, Alexandra Chapa-Kunz, and Wade Branch
CHAPTER 8
Trauma and Its Lasting Effects after School Shootings; Psychological Considerations for Faculty, Staff, and Students
Anka Roberto
Personal & Professional Reflections
CHAPTER 9
Chairing in the Pandemicene: Coronavirus, George Floyd, and the Year of Living Dangerously
Tiffany Gilbert
CHAPTER 10
New Literacies, Empathy and Advocacy - Reconstructing a Pedagogy in Pandemic Times
Suriati Abas
CHAPTER 11
In a Crisis, Stories Need to be Heard—Changing the Digital Landscape to Include Narratives
Kevin D. Cordi
CHAPTER 12
Community is Always the Answer: Columbus State Community College, Compassion, and Care
Barbara Allen
CHAPTER 13
Holdfast: An Education in Disaster
Andy Tolhurst
CHAPTER 14
A Resident Assistant’s Reflections on the Pandemic
Kayli Childs
ABOUT THE EDITORS
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX
