Artistic Pedagogical Technologies: A Primer for Educators by Margaret J A Edwards

Artistic Pedagogical Technologies: A Primer for Educators by Margaret J A Edwards

Research has shown that what students desire most in the post-secondary milieu is engagement. As traditional forms of teaching that include lecture or PowerPoint presentations no longer adequately engage today's technology adept students, educators may find themselves at a loss for where to locate teaching strategies which both engage students, and are tried and tested in an actual classroom setting.

This book does just that. It provides a critical look at not only what is lacking in today's classrooms to promote engagement, but actual solutions and strategies to help nurse educators as they prepare to teach. Artistic Pedagogical Technologies were first envisioned by Dr. Beth Perry in 2005, while over twelve years of research confirms that these arts-based teaching strategies actually work.

As theory-based topics can be among the most difficult to engage students, included in this book are selected lesson plans that have been employed in actual classrooms. In total thirty five strategies are provided that can be utilized in a variety of classroom settings and applied to various nursing topics.

Students, as part of the human family, have an innate need to be creative. This creativity can display itself within Artistic Pedagogical Technologies as a melding of technology, edutainment and play. The strategies in Artistic Pedagogical Technologies: A Primer for Educators have changed the classroom life of the authors as educators, and they can change your teaching too.

Tim May is Professor of Social Science Methodology in the Sheffield Methods Institute, University of Sheffield. He originally trained and worked as an agricultural engineer and following an evening return-to-study course, studied at the LSE, Surrey and Plymouth universities. In addition to his teaching across a range of subjects, Tim has authored and edited sixteen books, including new editions, which have been translated into fifteen languages, as well as over one hundred and eighty articles, book chapters, research reports and policy briefings. His work has been funded by national and international research councils and the topics of his research and writings cover: urban knowledge exchange; policy development and learning; universities, cities and socio-economic development; management and organizational change; research methods and methodology; social and political theory and philosophy of social science.

Beth and Tim are currently co-authoring Reflexivity: The Essential Guide (2017) and a fifth edition of Social Research: Issues, Methods and Process (2018) and working on a research programme entitled 'Realising Just Cities'. Tim is also writing a third edition of Thinking Sociologically (co-authored with the late Zygmunt Bauman, 2018).

Beth Perry is Professorial Fellow in the Urban Institute, University of Sheffield. She has followed an interdisciplinary path, undertaking degrees in European Studies and Modern Languages, before completing a PhD in Sociology and Political Science. Since 2000 she has worked in and subsequently led urban research centres, with a focus on the processes and practices of urban transformation.

Beth is currently the UK Programme Lead for the Mistra Urban Futures centre, which has established local interaction platforms in South Africa, Kenya, Sweden and the UK to explore the limits and strengths of coproduction in realising just cities. She holds major grants from the Economic and Social Research Council's Open Research Area and Urban Transformations programmes ('Jam and Justice' and 'Knowledge Matters') and has co-led a large Arts and Humanities Research Council project under the Connected Communities programme ('Cultural Intermediation: Connecting Communities in the Creative Urban Economy'). With Tim May she is currently writing Reflexivity: The Essential Guide (2017) and a fifth edition of Social Research: Issues, Methods and Process (2018).