Miami faculty have long been recognized as innovative teachers and teacher/scholars. Those characteristics are on full display to a national audience in a new book available now for pre-order, Changing Conceptions, Changing Practices: Innovating Teaching Across Disciplines.

The book is written by 22 Miami faculty from 8 departments and 4 divisions, along with HCWE staff. This group takes up the question: how do we make deep, meaningful change in our curricula when the larger culture of higher education rewards efficiency and accountability? 

HCWE Director and staff begin by sharing their heuristic for helping faculty engage in deep changemaking around innovative teaching and learning through the Howe Faculty Writing Fellows Program. They describe the results of several years of research about the impact of the Fellows program, and then discuss the challenges for faculty members who seek to lead curricular change efforts in their programs. In subsequent chapters, Howe Fellows from economics, philosophy, gerontology, art history, psychology, history, teacher education, and Latin America, Latino/a and Caribbean Studies share their curricular innovations. In closing, the book editors describe larger cultural constraints to innovating in higher education. 

Changing Conceptions, Changing Practices demonstrates that it is possible for groups of faculty members to change teaching and learning in radical ways across their programs, despite the current emphasis on efficiency and accountability. The book offers a theory- and research-based heuristic for helping faculty transform their courses and programs, as well as practical examples of the heuristic in action.

Use the code WARD22 for a 40% discount on pre-orders. The book will be published in December.