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Book SynopsisThis 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.
Trade ReviewThis 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.'
-- Dr. Nandita Mishra. Faculty - Accounting and Finance. Department of Management and Engineering (IEI). Linköping University, Sweden
Table of ContentsPART 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
