"Some lessons end with the examination.
Some remain long after the classroom has emptied.
T.I.D.E.: A Teacher, 700 Students, and the Lessons We Remember begins with
teacher, a doctoral research question, and seven hundred students. The
research was supposed to investigate whether stories could make economics
more engaging, understandable, and memorable.
But somewhere between classrooms and questionnaires, student voices and
statistical tables, stories told and stories remembered, the research began to ask
something larger.
What actually remains after we teach?
Moving between classroom experiences, conversations, student responses,
research findings, failures, doubts, and moments of discovery, T.I.D.E. reveals the
human journey that academic writing often leaves behind.
This is not a textbook on storytelling.
It is not a simplified version of a doctoral thesis.
It is the story of a teacher who became a researcher, a researcher who learned to
listen, and seven hundred students who quietly changed the meaning of the work.
The thesis recorded what was found.
This book remembers what happened."