Geeky Pedagogy, Jessamyn Neuhaus
Geeky Pedagogy, Jessamyn Neuhaus
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Geeky Pedagogy
A Guide for Intellectuals, Introverts, and Nerds Who Want to Be Effective Teachers

Author: Jessamyn Neuhaus

Narrator: Randye Kaye

Unabridged: 7 hr 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 10/22/2019


Synopsis

Geeky Pedagogy is a funny, evidence-based, multidisciplinary, pragmatic, highly accessible guide to the process of learning and relearning how to be an effective college teacher. It is the first college teaching guide that encourages faculty to embrace their inner nerd, inviting listeners to view themselves and their teaching work in light of contemporary discourse that celebrates increasingly diverse geek culture and explores stereotypes about super-smart introverts.

Geeky Pedagogy avoids the excessive jargon, humorlessness, and endless proscriptions that plague much published advice about teaching. Neuhaus is aware of how embodied identity and employment status shape one's teaching context, and she eschews formulaic depictions of idealized exemplar teaching, instead inviting listeners to join her in an engaging, critically reflective conversation about the vicissitudes of teaching and learning in higher education as a geek, introvert, or nerd. Written for the wonks and eggheads who want to translate their vast scholarly expertise into authentic student learning, Geeky Pedagogy is packed with practical advice and encouragement for increasing listeners' pedagogical knowledge.

About Jessamyn Neuhaus

Jessamyn Neuhaus is a professor of US history and popular culture at SUNY Plattsburgh, a scholar of teaching and learning, and a recipient of the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching. She is the author of Manly Meals and Mom's Home Cooking: Cookbooks and Gender in Modern America and Housework and Housewives in American Advertising: Married to the Mop.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Lance

Neuhaus's collection of thoughtful and insightful tips for instructors is a wide-range how-to and why-to that instructors of every kind will find useful with practical tips, research-related groundings, and places to find more knowledge on the subject of effective teaching. As a person who is clearl......more

Goodreads review by Skylar

Though it’s written with higher education professors in mind, I found Neuhaus’s writing and advice for adapting to teaching as an introvert equally applicable to my secondary classroom. An easy, fun read with sound advice. (The page length might surprise you—90 of the 250 pages are a glossary, footn......more

Goodreads review by Steve

A book about effective teaching strategies for nerdy introverts? Count me in. New semester is on the way and thought I'd check this book out to see if I can pick up some useful strategies. While what was offered in this book was not very surprising, it did give me the opportunity to reflect, which i......more

Goodreads review by Karen

I ordered this book almost immediately after listening to an interview with the author on Fresh Air. Hey, I'm an academic with introvert tendencies – though I consider myself more an ambivert – and nerdiness is for me also a badge of honor. I was really looking forward to reading it. I give the autho......more