Teaching is often a lonely affair. Let’s share more of our teaching ideas with colleagues, including Senior Tutors!   Senior Tutors come into play when our students are struggling. Is this ...
Looking ahead at the possibilities of innovative teaching at Bristol, I draw on conversations with Resonance pedagogy practitioners.   I wouldn’t start from here. This might work elsewhere but we do ...
Educators across institutions say it’s reassuring to put your teaching practice into words. What is it about sharing that helps us gain confidence?  I’ve spoken with teaching staff across a ...
Students and staff are here to work together. Resonant learning relationships will involve both. Let us not put their “experiences” in different silos.   Resonant learning experiences involve both students and ...
Those who know most about climate change have the biggest carbon footprint. What does sustainability education have to look like in order to be effective?   For academics, the news are ...
Measurable results in predefined categories versus out-of-the-box approaches along non-standard routes – faultlines in universities are often hierarchical, but there is a way out.   “Students love it because it’s different!” ...
You will never teach the same class in two different rooms, says Greek philosopher Heraclitus (sort of). The flow will be so different. So here’s a few things we can ...
To many of us in Modern Languages, literature seems almost made for teaching. Here’s why.   People outside the Arts are sometimes disdainful of subjects that never seem to arrive at ...
“I look forward to marking essays,” says Dietmar Wetzel. Those of us who’ve been here a while will know that discussions about marking can feel like a tug of war. ...
Ready to innovate, an enthusiastic teacher was met with silence and confusion by his students. Here’s how sociologist Dietmar Wetzel responded.   ...
If we’re serious about research-led teaching, we need to tell our students what we don’t – yet – know. Enter teaching-led research!  ...
I’ve heard a colleague describe their students as ‘wilted parsley.’ If we want to get the juices flowing again, we have to find out what our students are actually interested ...
There is no shortage of teaching tips and tricks, and many of them are tried and tested. But the reason why they work is not actually inherent in them ...
Introduction to the Resonance Pedagogy series created by Christoph Fricker. Relationships matter. When we built relationships, we enable learning. If we don’t, we create aggression, frustration and indifference. So how ...
Part of the Resonance Pedagogy series, visit the home page. Dr Christophe Fricker interviews Professor Hartmut Rosa, a professor of sociology at the University of Jena, working within the tradition ...
Article by Wolfgang Endres, translated by Christophe Fricker, Part of the Resonance Pedagogy series, visit the home page. How research made time for resonant relationships   Technology helps us save time ...
This interview is part of Hartmut Rosa and Wolfgang Endres’s book “Resonanzpädagogik: Wenn es im Klassenzimmer knistert”, Weinheim: Beltz, 2016. The English translation is by Christophe Fricker. ...