Kelty, R: Risk-Taking in Higher Education

Ryan Kelty is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology at Washington College. Prior to that, he served as Assistant Professor in the Department of Behavioral Sciences & Leadership at the United States Military Academy, and was an Instructor and Research Associate at the Center for Research on Military Organization at the University of Maryland.

Risk Taking in Higher Education includes authors from numerous academic disciplines to emphasize both the importance of risk-taking across higher education and to highlight the varied approaches to incorporate risk-taking into classroom practices.

Introduction: The Importance and Challenge of Risk-Taking in Higher EducationRyan Kelty and Bridget A. BuntenSECTION I: SOCIAL SCIENCESChapter 1: Flipping the Risk-Reward Associated with Flipped ClassroomsSarah Raley and Gretchen Kreahling McKayChapter 2: The Importance of Risk-Taking to Moral-Ethical Character DevelopmentArthur Gibb, IIIChapter 3: Falling Through the Looking Glass: Personalizing Privilege to Foster Understanding of the Social Nature of StratificationRyan Kelty and Bridget A. BuntenChapter 4: The Consciousness Raising Classroom: Lessons in Inequality and IdentityJessica Santos, Rachel Steele, and Callie Watkins LiuSECTION II: HUMANITIES & FINE ARTSChapter 5: InterventionsBenjamin Zellmer BellasChapter 6: Disability and Activism in the Engaged ClassroomJulianne GuillardSECTION III: NATURAL SCIENCESChapter 7: From Comfort to Confidence: Modeling Science as a Process of Risk-Taking in the ClassroomAaron R. Krochmal and Timothy C. Roth, IIChapter 8: Risk-Taking in Engineering Instruction (United State Air Force Academy)Kimberly Kays, Andrew Hoisington, John Christ, Don Rhymer, Dan Jensen, and Cory CooperChapter 9: Risk-Taking in Medical Education, Training, and the Practice of MedicineBala AmbatiConclusion: The Risk-Taking ImperativeRyan Kelty and Bridget A. BuntenAbout the EditorsAbout the ContributorsIndex