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Graduate Students Want to Solve ‘Wicked Problems.’ Are Universities Delivering?

Edsurge

Solving them may require training young scholars to be “ wicked students ,” to use a phrase from Paul Hanstedt, director of the Washington & Lee University teaching and learning center. Do graduate students themselves want to pursue interdisciplinary aims and become “wicked”? However, it usually doesn’t. They sure do!

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Journeying Back to Joy in the Classroom

Faculty Focus

For the next few years, I researched as much as I could about this new way of teaching, eventually finding the name for it: playful pedagogy. At my university, for example, we have a thriving “sandbox-style” working group comprised of interdisciplinary educators. Journal of Teaching and Learning. Dare I say it? I was hooked.

Lecturing 111
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Journeying Back to Joy in the Classroom

Faculty Focus

For the next few years, I researched as much as I could about this new way of teaching, eventually finding the name for it: playful pedagogy. At my university, for example, we have a thriving “sandbox-style” working group comprised of interdisciplinary educators. Journal of Teaching and Learning. Dare I say it? I was hooked.

Lecturing 111