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Actionable Learning For A Living Earth: Backwards By Design 2015-16 Project Report, James Loucky
Actionable Learning For A Living Earth: Backwards By Design 2015-16 Project Report, James Loucky
Backward by Design Mini-Studies
During the summer 2015 “Backwards by Design” working retreat, I explored the intricate pairing of knowledge and action as central to efforts to bridge anthropology and environment. The retreat initiated a focus on “actionable learning” as a threshold concept that would come to underlie my seminar on “Ecocultural Ethics” in Winter 2016.
Postcolonial Critique: A Threshold Concept In Organizational Communication Studies, James Fortney
Postcolonial Critique: A Threshold Concept In Organizational Communication Studies, James Fortney
Backward by Design Mini-Studies
In 2014, I attended the Backwards By Design professional development retreat as a way to enhance my writing instruction in the field of communication studies. The retreat workshops provided an opportunity for me to create and transform one of my courses by envisioning where I wanted to end up and working backwards on how to get there. By giving attention to design, enactment, and result, I was able to re-consider the overall learning goals of the course, with particular attention to the core concepts that potentially hold the power to transform student perception of communication studies. Below, I provide a …
Backwards By Design Assessment Project, Linda Keeler
Backwards By Design Assessment Project, Linda Keeler
Backward by Design Mini-Studies
Currently, KIN 321 Sociology of Sport is the only sociocultural class in the kinesiology program and perhaps, one of the only sociology courses that kinesiology students will ever take. It is quite common that a sport sociology course is the first (and unfortunately only) upper class course that forces the students to critically analyze the underpinnings and values of the sport institution in which many are working so hard to promote. Since the class is approached from a conflict theorist approach (i.e., what I like to call the nitpick theory) and often challenges long held beliefs, a key threshold concept …
Using Service-Learning To Teach Threshold Concepts, Helen Morgan Parmett
Using Service-Learning To Teach Threshold Concepts, Helen Morgan Parmett
Backward by Design Mini-Studies
The course I chose to focus on for the Backwards by Design retreat and for this particular study is Communication 244: Advocacy through Media. This course enjoins students to critically consider how media can be used as a tool to advocate for social and political change, and, especially for social justice. Students engage with scholarly and activist literature on theories of media, social change, and advocacy as well as case studies of media makers who intervene in the process of social change. Students’ critical acumen is sharpened through participating in a service-learning project, where students learn how to apply theories …