Emerging Stronger: Pedagogical Lessons from the Pandemic

Responding to the sudden and far-reaching implications of the COVID-19 pandemic in college classrooms and on campus, Emerging Stronger assembles an original compilation of chapters that revisit, reframe, and refine the practice of teaching in a fundamentally altered landscape.

Cultivated from a wide array of different fields, from sociology and political science to literature and secondary education, expert contributors to this volume extend their scholarship on teaching and learning and offer thoughtful pieces about curricular innovation, teaching tools and techniques, and evidence-based approaches that will interest dedicated faculty in any discipline. The chapters fall into three categories―Modalities of Teaching and Learning, Pedagogical Strategies, and Student Engagement―each of which carry an all-important focus on what readers should know about best practices now and for the foreseeable future.

Whether experienced faculty, scholars just starting out in their teaching careers, or aspiring graduate students, readers of this volume will come away with great techniques and strategies, but also community, hope, and opportunity to strengthen their teaching and provide better learning environments in their classrooms.

Jeffrey Chin is Professor of Sociology at Le Moyne College, Syracuse, New York. He is the Secretary of Alpha Kappa Delta, the international honor society for Sociology (https://alphakappadelta .org/). His research interest in the scholarship of teaching and learning began when he served as editor of Teaching Sociology, an official journal of the American Sociological Association (https://www.asanet.org/publications/journals/teaching-sociology), and later in his residence at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (https://www.carnegiefoundation.org/) which earned him the distinction of Carnegie National Scholar. He is the 2012 recipient of the American Sociological Association’s Hans O. Mauksch Award for Contributions to Undergraduate Sociology and the 2023 ASA Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award.

Michele Lee Kozimor, Professor of Sociology at Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, has a strong record of meritorious teaching and dedication to the scholarship of teaching and learning, mentoring, and professional development of students and faculty. Kozimor was the Director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning from 2014 to 2017 and the 2018–2019 recipient of the Kreider Prize for Teaching Excellence at Elizabethtown College. She is the current editor of the journal Teaching Sociology and the 2019 recipient of the American Sociological Association Section on Teaching and Learning Hans O. Mauksch Award for Outstanding Contributions to Undergraduate Sociology.