Academic Ableism: Disability and Higher Education, by Jay Timothy Dolmage (University of Michigan Press; 244 pages; $70 hardcover, $24.95 paperback or e-book). Argues that disability is central to higher education, rather than a drain, and discusses how greater inclusivity could improve learning.
Artistic Research in the Future Academy, by Danny Butt (Intellect/University of Chicago Press; 184 pages; $96). Explores the tension between scientific and artistic production that accompanied the integration of the art school into the university sector, and the effect of artistic research on art and academe.
Contingent Academic Labor: Evaluating Conditions to Improve Student Outcomes, by Daniel Davis (Stylus Publishing; 126 pages; $95 hardcover, $19.95 paperback, $15.99 e-book). Provides a scorecard for measuring the labor conditions of adjunct instructors, along with advice to colleges on how to revise those conditions in ways that could improve students’ learning outcomes and graduation rates.
Flashpoints for Asian American Studies, edited by Cathy J. Schlund-Vials (Fordham University Press; 319 pages; $125 hardcover, $35 paperback, $23.99 e-book). Investigates the ways in which Asian-American studies has responded to political and interracial crises, and calls on the field to be more expansive.
Organizing Academic Colleges: A Guide for Deans, by Bret S. Danilowicz and Anne-Marie McCartan (Council of Colleges of Arts & Sciences; 157 pages; $40 paperback, free e-book). Uses case studies to describe how deans can most effectively reorganize their office, the faculty within a college, and colleges within a university.
Promoting Social Justice Through the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, edited by Delores D. Liston and Regina Rahimi (Indiana University Press; 335 pages; $110 hardcover, $40 paperback; $39.99 e-book). Describes how educators and students can promote equity and social justice in diverse disciplines.
Teaching Interculturally: A Framework for Integrating Disciplinary Knowledge and Intercultural Development, by Amy Lee, with others (Stylus; 137 pages; $95 hardcover, $27.50 paperback, $21.99 e-book). Presents two case studies describing pedagogical techniques that support diversity, and encourages the use of “productive discomfort” in the intercultural classroom.
The Textbook and the Lecture: Education in the Age of New Media, by Norm Friesen (Johns Hopkins University Press; 177 pages; $32.95). Investigates educational media through history, with attention to how textbooks and the modern lecture developed and the ways in which new media echo ancient forms.
Toward an Inclusive Creative Writing: Threshold Concepts to Guide the Literary Writing Curriculum, by Janelle Adsit (Bloomsbury Academic; 195 pages; $114 hardcover, $91.99 e-book). Re-evaluates the workshop-based method of teaching creative writing, and offers a model that aims to be more inclusive and equitable.
Using Digital Humanities in the Classroom: A Practical Introduction for Teachers, Lecturers, and Students, by Claire Battershill and Shawna Ross (Bloomsbury Publishing; 220 pages; $88 hardcover, $26.95 paperback, $25.99 e-book). Offers tips on overcoming resistance to technology and designing syllabi and classroom activities that incorporate the use of digital tools in the humanities classroom.
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