{"id":246,"date":"2020-02-24T16:07:39","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T21:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/academics\/faculty\/amaupin\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T10:47:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T14:47:23","slug":"amaupin","status":"publish","type":"faculty","link":"https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/academics\/faculty\/amaupin\/","title":{"rendered":"Maupin, Amy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Students who study education at Transylvania do not merely study techniques and methods. Rather, as associate professor Amy Maupin puts it, the study of education at Transylvania is a \u201ctruly unique experience\u201d in which students develop a \u201cdeep theoretical understanding of education and its many issues.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Those students will also be able to articulate a philosophy of teaching and learning that is \u201cgrounded in many of the other disciplines that intersect with ours,\u201d she says \u2014 disciplines such as sociology, philosophy, history, anthropology, English and the arts. All of these, Maupin adds, have an important place in the study of education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maupin has adopted a teaching philosophy centered on the notion that she must create a \u201cspecial space that is safe and brimming with curious energy\u201d and anchored in the belief that teaching is an \u201cact of love.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTo teach from a perspective of love is to teach from the heart, that central location from which those things that matter the most typically comes,\u201d she says, adding that she believes a pedagogy based in love enables her students to learn more about who they are as individuals.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI aim to help students understand themselves as much as I want them to understand texts, ideas, theories and experiences in my courses,\u201d Maupin adds. \u201cI want them to make meaningful connections between what they study and learn in class and what they dream of and aspire to in life outside of and beyond Transy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To that end, Maupin embraces an ethic of care, rooted in the philosophy of educator Nel Noddings. Through empathy, compassion and caring relationships, Maupin engages with her students in a cycle of learning \u2014 helping her students learn and construct meaning while also learning how to be a better teacher and person herself through interactions with her students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns faculty-accolades is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Academic History<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Ed.D., University of Tennessee, 2000<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>M.A., Eastern Kentucky University, 1996<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>B.A., Eastern Kentucky University, 1991<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Courses Taught at Transy<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Foundations of EducationLearning Theory and Pedagogy<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Women in Education<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Content Area Literacy<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Young Adult Literature<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Young Adolescents<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Creating Middle Level Learning Environments<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Enculturation in Non-Western Societies<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Senior Seminar<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>First-Year Seminar<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Areas of Specialization<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Young adult literature<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Secondary English\/language arts<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Middle grade education&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Gender issues in education&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Contemplative education<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Recent Publications<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFrom the Scroll to the Screen: Why Letters, Then and Now, Matter.\u201d English Journal, Vol. 105, No. 4, March 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Professional Memberships<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Assembly on Literature for Adolescents of the NCTE<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Association for Contemplative Mind in Higher Education<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Association for Middle Level Education<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Association of Independent Liberal Arts Colleges for Teacher Education<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Awards<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Bingham Award for Excellence in Teaching<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2016 English Journal Edwin M. Hopkins Award, Honorable Mention<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":8208,"template":"","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"academic_division":[11,5,46],"class_list":["post-246","faculty","type-faculty","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Maupin, Amy - Transylvania University<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/academics\/faculty\/amaupin\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Maupin, Amy\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Students who study education at Transylvania do not merely study techniques and methods. 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