Book Reviews

Hai-Jew, Shalin Reviewed by: Khalaf Mohamed Abdellatif, Cairo UniversityDate Reviewed: June 21, 2021 This textbook considers and addresses the design of online learning objects, electronic textbooks, short courses, long courses, MOOC courses, and other types of contents for open sharing….

Christian Arnseth, Hans; Hanghøj,Thorkild; Duus Henriksen, Thomas; Misfeldt, Morten; Ramberg, Robert; Selander, Staffan, eds. Reviewed by: Christina Sebastian, New Orleans Baptist Theological SeminaryDate Reviewed: June 21, 2021 We live in a time of educational transformations towards more 21st century pedagogies…

Nagle, James Michael Reviewed by: Susanna Cantu Gregory, Clarke UniversityDate Reviewed: June 22, 2021 For a denomination like Roman Catholicism that is canonically difficult to leave, many American Catholics are migrating beyond the institution’s immediate influence. The new religious patterns…

Stachowiak, Bonni Reviewed by: Zachary Wooten, West Chester UniversityDate Reviewed: June 22, 2021 What does it mean to be a productive professor in higher education? What would it feel like to have more peace and productivity? To have nothing fall…

Reviewed by: Beverley McGuire, University of North Carolina WilmingtonDate Reviewed: June 22, 2021 Naming What We Know: Threshold Concepts of Writing Studies, published in 2015, contributed to a discussion about the relevance of identifying key concepts and ideas of writing…

Reviewed by: Steven C. Ibbotson, Prairie Colleges Date Reviewed: June 22, 2021 Higher education occupies a difficult place in twenty-first-century American culture. Universities—the institutions that bear so much responsibility for the future health of our nation—are at odds with the…

Reviewed by: Anne-Marie Ellithorpe, Vancouver School of TheologyDate Reviewed: June 22, 2021 Now more than ever, race has become a morphing relational dynamic that has less to do with the demographic census box we check and more with how we…

Reviewed by: Anne-Marie Ellithorpe, Vancouver School of TheologyDate Reviewed: June 22, 2021 Now more than ever, race has become a morphing relational dynamic that has less to do with the demographic census box we check and more with how we…

Reviewed by: Lisa Cleath, George Fox UniversityDate Reviewed: June 22, 2021 Secondary level teachers and professors from various disciplines present their best advice and insights into teaching about various facets of genocide and/or delineate actual lessons they have taught that…

Reviewed by: Barbara J. Blodgett, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary (formerly Lexington Theological Seminary)Date Reviewed: June 22, 2021 This is a visionary, consciousness-raising book that asks us to rethink the purposes and design of study away and study abroad experiences in the…