by Steven Berg | Feb 17, 2022 | Book Reviews
As I was preparing to teach a new co-requisite class for developmental students taking an introductory composition course, I realized that I would need to start teaching reading in addition to composition, and this was something I thought that I had never done before....
by Sherri Spelic | Feb 16, 2022 | Book Reviews, Features
When was the last time you read a book on pedagogy that was both on point and made you laugh? While there are all kinds of resources which address ways to improve our instructional strategies, wouldn’t it be great if you found one that quoted Star Trek’s Captain...
by Rebecca Weaver | Nov 17, 2021 | Book Reviews
Review by Danielle N. Gilman In her Foreword to Hybrid Teaching: Pedagogy, People, Politics (Hybrid Pedagogy Inc., 2021), Robin DeRosa describes the edited collection as a “tool” that has been created “at the intersection of where humanities meets...
by Rebecca Weaver | Nov 17, 2021 | Book Reviews
Review by Monica Carol Miller As part of West Virginia University Press’s formidable Teaching and Learning in Higher Education series, Susan Hrach’s Minding Bodies (2021) makes an important contribution to the theoretically grounded, brain-based science books...
by Rebecca Weaver | Nov 17, 2021 | Book Reviews
A Note from The Reviews Editor Welcome to our Second Issue of Recursive Reviews! I’m really thrilled that this group of reviewers reviewed these books–each has something to say to us now, in this moment, as we’re all doing our best in and out of our...
by Rebecca Weaver | Nov 16, 2021 | Book Reviews, Features
Review by Lee Skallerup Bessette How you read Audrey Watters’ new book Teaching Machines: The History of Personalized Learning (MIT Press, 2021) will greatly depend on how to you view technology generally and ed-tech more specifically: do you see tech as the great...