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    Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intellectuals, Introverts, and Nerds Who Want to Be Effective Teachers
    Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intellectuals, Introverts, and Nerds Who Want to Be Effective Teachers
    Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intellectuals, Introverts, and Nerds Who Want to Be Effective Teachers
    Audiobook7 hours

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

    Written by Jessamyn Neuhaus

    Narrated by Randye Kaye

    4.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateOct 22, 2019
    ISBN9781541434912
    Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intellectuals, Introverts, and Nerds Who Want to Be Effective Teachers

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    • 4/5
      The title is a bit misleading... no, not the geeky part, the pedagogy part. This is not a pedagogy book. This is more a broad view of principles and practices that GINs (geeks, introverts, and nerds) should adopt to offset some of the anxiety that comes with the social interaction aspects of teachings, and the hurdles we have all encountered.
      The practices are awareness (of self and students), preparation (for the anxiety-inducing aspects of teaching), reflection (on one's practice), and support (and getting some whether from peers or from the instructional design / teaching and learning offices at one's college or university). But again, this is not a book of tips and design ideas, but of broad principles.
      The message seems to be "it gets better... if you practice these four things", that things are going to be ok, there are no superhuman teachers, that teaching is hard, non-linear, and constantly shifting.
      This book seems primarily directed at novices but even I, with about 20 years of teaching under my belt, found things to ponder (further than I have pondered before... see what I did there? Yeah, I'm a GIN).
      I have to confess some eyeroll while reading the section on gratitude though.