Dorothe Bach
Associate Director & Professor
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Born and raised in Germany, Dorothe Bach joined the Center for Teaching Excellence in 2002. As associate director, Dorothe delivers a variety of educational development programs and supports teaching innovation. Her programmatic research interests cover a broad range of topics from course design to student-faculty partnerships, faculty learning communities, and program assessment. Her current pedagogical interests focus on equitable teaching practices, contemplative pedagogy, and embodied cognition. She currently teaches an elective undergraduate course Restoring our Relationships with Nature in UVA’s Environmental Thought and Practice Program. Dorothe’s published work has appeared in the International Journal for Academic Development; International Journal for Students as Partners; International Journal of Technology, Knowledge and Society; Journal for Contemplative Inquiry; Journal on Excellence in College Teaching; Journal of Research in Innovative Teaching & Learning; The Journal of Faculty Development; and To Improve the Academy. Dorothe regularly presents nationally and internationally and has been an invited workshop leader and consultant on four continents. For her teaching and educational development work, she has received several awards.
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Recent Publications
Heimann, K., & Bach, D. (invited book chapter, forthcoming) In Search for Relational Imagination: An auto-ethnographic journey through training in Embodied Critical Thinking Schoeller, D., Walkerden, G. & Þorgeirsdóttir, S. The Embodied Turn in Critical Thinking: Reenchanting Teaching, Learning and Research in Higher Education, Routledge.
Gravett, E., & Bach, D. (forthcoming, April 2024). Beyond the “Human Dimension”: Expanding Fink’s Taxonomy of Significant Learning to Include the More-than-Human World. To Improve the Academy.
Caldwell-O'Keefe, J. R., Boyd, D. E., Ashe, D., Bach, D., & Diede, M. (2020). Turning off the Firehose and Fostering Community for the New Professoriate: Five Institutional Perspectives on New Faculty Orientation. Journal of Faculty Development, 34(2), 59-66.
Wheeler, L. B., & Bach, D. (2020). Understanding the impact of educational development interventions on classroom instruction and student success. International Journal for Academic Development, 1-17.
Doktor, S. D., Bach, D., Abbot, S., & Hardin, J. (2019). At the threshold: A case study of a partnership between a student organization and an educational development center. International Journal for Students as Partners, 3(1), 150-159.
Recent Conference Presentations
Bach, D., & Gravett, E. (November 2023) Expanding Fink’s Taxonomy to Include the More-than-Human Dimension, POD Network in Higher Education Conference, online.
Heimann, K. & Bach, D. (September 2023) Expanding our “relational imagination” through radical listening …and the trouble it leaves us in. Gendlin Symposium, online.
Schuyler, C., Bach, D., & Regehr, O. (May 2023) Nature as Co-teacher: Boosting Resilience, Creativity, and Critical Thinking in Nearby Greenspaces. Innovations in Pedagogy Summit, University of Virginia, VA.
Peoples, W., Bach, D. & Buckelew R. (2022, November). Toward Racial Justice: Disrupting Cultures of Whiteness in Educational Development. Pre-conference workshop presented at the POD Network in Higher Education Conference, Seattle, WA.
Bach, D., & Heimann, K. (2022, June). Embodied Thinking: Listening for Change. Workshop presented at the International Consortium for Educational Development, Aarhus, Denmark.
Bach, D., Mandeltort, L., Taggart, J., Wheeler, L.B. & Williams, C. (2021, September). Understanding Barriers and Supports for Building Sustainable, Relationship-Rich Academic Environments. Workshop presented at the First Annual Conference of the Coalition for Life Transformative Education, online.
Bach, D. & Dickens, E., Joubert, M., McEniry, C., Moore, C.S., Sibanda, B., & Streifer, A.C. (2020, November). Equity, decoloniality, and social justice: A Dialogue with South African Colleagues. Plenary presented at the POD Network in Higher Education Conference, online.
Buckelew, R., & Bach, D. (2020, February). Specifications Grading: A Strategy for Cultivating Productive Student-Instructor Relationships. Workshop presented at the Conference for Higher Education Pedagogy, Blacksburg, VA.
Grooters, S., McEniry, C., & Bach, D. (2019, November). Decentering Whiteness in Anti-Racist Educational Development Practices. Workshop presented at the POD Network in Higher Education Conference, Pittsburg, PA.
Bach, D. & Roderick, L. (2019, November). Radical Listening and the Pedagogy of Community: Fostering Connected Learning. Workshop presented at the POD Network in Higher Education Conference, Pittsburg, PA.