CHAPTER 1: What is Crossover Pedagogy?

I choose to begin this chapter with something I have never done in all my previous, published writing, and I do it for a reason that I will explain later: I present my so-called “scholarly credentials” before I preview our book’s specific content, purpose, and potential value. I am a university faculty member of 48 years who teaches undergraduate and graduate courses across a number of disciplines, including educational theory, philosophy, creative writing, applied ethics, higher education leadership, religion and spirituality, and philosophy of education. I have published 16 interdisciplinary, academic books (this will be my 17th) and well over 100 scholarly articles, book chapters, and monographs. The University of Vermont in 2003 awarded me the official title University Scholar in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Creative Arts. I was also the 2009 recipient of the University of Vermont’s Joseph A. Abruscato Award for Excellence in Research and Scholarship, and the Gordon Fielding Lewis Award for Excellence in Teaching and Research (an annual award given to a faculty member by Pi Gamma Mu, the prestigious International Social Sciences Honor Society). In addition, I have won a number of other local and national awards honoring my scholarship as a faculty member approaching a half-century of teaching, research, and service in the academy.