Pedagogy Apr 2010

Creativity and Collaboration in the Small College Department

Wendy Moffat

Abstract

This article argues small departments are ideal laboratories for innovative structures of collaboration. Beginning with the smallest nit—an individual teacher “collaborating with herself” to mine good ideas from one course to another, and graduating to larger and more ambitious structures of collaboration—team- teaching, service- learning, performance and interdisciplinary syllabi, and courses taught between campuses and across the globe—Moffat shows how deliberate collaboration can yield more from less. Using examples from colleagues' work in small departments at Dickinson College, Moffat suggests how creative collaboration can expand pedagogical methods, increase student diversity and demand for a range of courses, establish interdisciplinary communities, and widen the curriculum.

Journal
Pedagogy
Published
2010-04-01
DOI
10.1215/15314200-2009-039
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  1. Olson et al. (2014)
    Reimagining the Literature Survey Through Team Teaching
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