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How Students Learn And Instructors Can, Too: Effective College Teaching According To Eyler (2018), Karin Dejonge-Kannan

Journal on Empowering Teaching Excellence

Book Review

Eyler, J. R. (2018). How Humans Learn: The Science and Stories behind Effective College Teaching. West Virginia University Press.

• 293 pages
• Available in hardback, paperback, and digital format
• Price $85 (hc), $22 (pb), $17 (ebook)
• Keywords: learning, teaching, college students, classroom practice

Reviewer:

Karin deJonge-Kannan, Principal Lecturer

Department of Languages, Philosophy, and Communication Studies

Utah State University

karin.dejongekan@usu.edu

Full Issue: Journal On Empowering Teaching Excellence, Volume 3, Issue 2

Journal on Empowering Teaching Excellence

The full Spring 2019 issue (Volume 3, Issue 2) of the Journal on Empowering Teaching Excellence.

Book Review: Translanguaging At Work: Approaches To Dynamic Bilingualism, Meral Kaya

Journal of Multilingual Education Research

Book Reviewed:

García, O., Johnson, S. I., & Seltzer, K. (2017). The Translanguaging Classroom: Leveraging Student Bilingualism for Learning. Philadelphia, PA: Caslon, Inc., 196 pages, ISBN978-1-934000-19-9 (Softcover: $ 39.95.); ISBN978-1-934000-19-9 (eText: $29.95-$36.95 depending on days used).

Toil Of The Firestarters, Peter A. Alces

Peter A. Alces

No abstract provided.

Book Review: Breakbeat Pedagogy: Hip Hop And Spoken Word Beyond The Classroom Walls, Drew Emanuel Berkowitz

Journal of Media Literacy Education

This review explores and critiques Breakbeat Pedagogy: Hip Hop and Spoken Word Beyond the Classroom Walls, a book that presents not only auto-ethnographic observations about the author's own approach to critical media literacy pedagogy, but also his views on the role straight, white, cisgender male educators play in the media literacy education of increasingly-diverse high school student bodies.

A Cordial Reply To Matthew Tuininga, Keith Sewell

Pro Rege

Editor's Note: This article is Dr. Keith Sewell's rejoinder to an ongoing, friendly debate between himself and Dr. Matthew Tuininga, a debate that began with Sewell's review of Tuininga's book, Calvin's Political Theology and the Public Engagement of the Church: Christ's Two Kingdoms (Cambridge U. Press, 2017) in Pro Rege 46:3 (March 2018).

Christian Hospitality And Muslim Immigration In An Age Of Fear (Book Review), Abby M. Foreman

Pro Rege

Reviewed Title: Christian Hospitality and Muslim Immigration in an Age of Fear by Matthew Kaemingk. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Eerdmans, 2018. 296 pp. ISBN: 9780802874580.

Applying Student Development Theories Holistically: Exemplar Programming In Higher Education (Book Review), Abigail Meert

Georgia Journal of College Student Affairs

Book review of Applying Student Development Theories Holistically: Exemplar Programming in Higher Education by Abigail Meert.

Abigail Meert is graduate student pursuing her M.Ed. in Higher Education Administration at Georgia Southern University where she serves as a Graduate Resident Director in University Housing. Her bachelor’s degree is in history from Armstrong State University, now named the Armstrong Campus of Georgia Southern University, where she assisted students in her role as a Resident Advisor, First-Year Peer Mentor, and Honors Ambassador for three years. Abigail’s research interests include higher education law and policy, university systems, and the consolidation of post-secondary institutions.