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Teaching Integratively: Five Dimensions Of Transformation, Roben Torosyan Jan 2010

Teaching Integratively: Five Dimensions Of Transformation, Roben Torosyan

Roben Torosyan Ph.D.

Compares models for personal, professional & civic life applications. Abstract: This chapter describes five dimensions of living and learning, and offers a comparison with other major models, with powerful practices to help learners consider multiple perspectives and apply learning concretely to personal, professional and civic life alike. Book description: Leading researchers and practitioners explore the frontiers of education from an Integral perspective.The educational challenges faced today are driving us toward a new step in the evolution of educational theory and practice. Educators are called to go beyond simply presenting alternatives, to integrating the best of mainstream and alternative approaches and …


Getting Started With Portfolios: A Vision For Implementing Reflection To Enhance Student Learning, Stephanie Burrell, Laurence Miners, Kathryn Nantz, Roben Torosyan Jan 2009

Getting Started With Portfolios: A Vision For Implementing Reflection To Enhance Student Learning, Stephanie Burrell, Laurence Miners, Kathryn Nantz, Roben Torosyan

Roben Torosyan Ph.D.

For full text go to: goo.gl/5NrMhD Excerpt: As Myles Horton described the essential task, “You only learn from the experience you learn from” (Newman, 2006, p. 240); but the question becomes how to guide learning from experience without inviting students to game the system by generating good confessions or conversion stories. One prompt that Roben created, for example, asks students in a core philosophy course to: Reflect on your own assumptions, strengths and areas to improve. Show, for example, how your own thinking changed or deepened, or how that was a struggle, and what you take away from the change …