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Immersive Practices: Dilemmas Of Power And Privilege In Community Engagement With Students In A Rural South African Village, J. Michael Williams, Lisa M. Nunn

Engaging Pedagogies in Catholic Higher Education (EPiCHE)

Power is manifested in many ways within immersive study abroad experiences. One of the paradoxes of this reality is that structures of power simultaneously create the conditions necessary for immersive community engagement programs to exist as well as limit the action, voice, and autonomy of the actors involved in the community engagement. Unequal power relations are an enduring dilemma of this kind of work even when the intention is to “join in community” with others to learn, create, and build relationships side by side for mutually beneficial purposes. In this paper we offer lessons we have learned, and continue to …

Immersions In Global Equality And Social Justice: A Model Of Change, Kevin Guerrieri, Sandra Sgoutas-Emch

Engaging Pedagogies in Catholic Higher Education (EPiCHE)

In the work for global equality and social justice, how should “change” be understood? Who determines what must change or be changed? In the efforts to carry out social change, what is the academy’s relationship with the community, society at large, and the broader world? This article parts from these and other key questions and then proposes a model of change that can be used as a lens for examining any project, program, or organization with the aim of creating positive change that is meaningful, sustainable, and holistic. The article provides both an explanation of the underlying interdisciplinary theoretical framework …

The Spirituality Of Immersion: Solidarity, Compassion, Relationship, Michael E. Lovette-Colyer

Engaging Pedagogies in Catholic Higher Education (EPiCHE)

While the term spirituality can be problematic, obscuring as much as revealing, immersion experiences cannot be understood fully without exploring the contours of what can only be described as spirituality. To the extent that they work, immersions effect change when they speak to the deepest longings of the heart. While manifesting in many different ways, the spirituality of immersion revolves around three major components: solidarity, compassion, and relationship. The spirituality of immersion is a developed relationality, a desire to enter into richer, wider, more expansive relationships with others, which naturally leads into deeper relationship with God.

Reflections On Skipping Stones To Diving Deep: The Process Of Immersion As A Practice, Judith Liu Dr

Engaging Pedagogies in Catholic Higher Education (EPiCHE)

Reflecting upon over 30 years of teaching courses with a community service-learning and engagement component, this article is a personal piece that explores the author’s journey through voluntarism, community service-learning and civic engagement, and how that path has led to embracing immersion as a critical pedagogical practice for community engagement.

Engaged Pedagogy: Reflections From A Barriologist, Rigoberto Reyes

Engaging Pedagogies in Catholic Higher Education (EPiCHE)

This essay offers advice to University faculty and administrators on how best to implement the work of engaged pedagogy and community development work. The author is an established activist and community organizer for the past 40 years. His most important recommendation when doing the work of community engagement is to begin work that starts and benefits the community.

Sjsu Erfa Annual Meeting Minutes, May 6, 2016, San Jose State University, Emeritus And Retired Faculty Association

SJSU ERFA Minutes

SJSU ERFA Annual Meeting Minutes

May 6, 2016

Beyond Behavior, Craig C. Laupheimer

Scholarship and Engagement in Education

Teaching to engage students with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) can inspire the whole classroom and make teaching and learning engaging and exciting. Although teachers and students alike face a challenging educational landscape, much can be done to empower students with special needs. Teaching with the whole classroom in mind with an emphasis on hands on, explorative and inspirational learning experiences to accommodate for these students strengthens and causes student engagement and agency. This article highlights the challenges and potential breakthroughs possible for classroom instruction specifically where the ADHD student is concerned and looks towards teaching mindfulness and empowerment as …

Curriculum Impact On Educational Philosophy Identification, Rebecca Tuttle

Student Research Symposium

An educator’s teaching philosophy represents their personal beliefs regarding the purpose of classroom instruction and the methods used to facilitate learning. While an individual’s educational philosophy often transforms over time, more research is needed to characterize influences on evolving theory and practice. This survey-based study was conducted to determine if the curricular content has an impact on teaching methodology despite a teacher’s philosophical identification. The study population comprised of adult learner-educators enrolled in a graduate educational philosophy class. The subjects were surveyed after completing a term examining the main tenets of five main educational philosophies (Liberal, Behavioral, Progressive, Humanist, Radical). …

Sjsu Erfa Board Minutes, May 2, 2016, San Jose State University, Emeritus And Retired Faculty Association

SJSU ERFA Minutes

SJSU ERFA Executive Board Minutes

May 2, 2016

Non-Tenure-Track Faculty And Community Engagement: How The 2020 Carnegie Community Engagement Classification Application Can Encourage Campuses To Support Non-Tenure-Track Faculty And Their Community Engagement, Allison Lafave, Damani Lewis, Sarah Smith

New England Resource Center for Higher Education Publications

In 2006, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching developed an elective classification for community engagement for institutions of higher education. To receive the classification, campuses must complete an application and respond to questions by providing evidence that demonstrates a commitment to sustaining and increasing their community engagement efforts (Welch & Saltmarsh, 2013). Many of the application questions relate to policies and practices that affect faculty careers. For example, the 2015 Community Engagement Classification application asked institutions to describe relevant professional development opportunities and ways in which faculty community engagement is incentivized, recognized, and rewarded. These questions are important, …

Nota Bene: News From The Yale Library, Spring 2016, Amanda Patrick

Nota Bene

Nota Bene is published during the academic year to acquaint the Yale community and others with the resources of the Yale Library.

An Assessment Comparing Community College Students’ Computer Self-Efficacy And Task Based Computer Knowledge, Amy Nicholson Stewart

Dissertations

This quantitative research study explored the relationship between students perceived computer self-efficacy and actual knowledge of computer related skills in computer hardware/technology, windows, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint and whether gender, race, and education level affected the research findings.

The participants in this study were students enrolled in an introductory computer concepts course at a community college located in the southeastern region of the United States. The computer course was a required for all students to receive an Associate of Arts and Associate of Applied Science degree. Data was collected in traditional face-to-face class sections and consisted of a pre- and …

Benefits Of Participating In The Student Consultant Program Across Multiple Semesters, Michael Pitts, Hannah Baumgartner

Teaching and Learning Together in Higher Education

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Group Dynamics: Lessons And Surprises From Multiple Sections Of A Single Class, Kara Becker, Alexandra Wood

Teaching and Learning Together in Higher Education

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Gaining New Perspectives On Discussion-Based Classes In English And The Humanities, Sarah Wagner-Mccoy, Ezra Schwartz

Teaching and Learning Together in Higher Education

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Five Things I Learned From Working With The Student-Consultant For Teaching And Learning Program, Morgan Luker, Benjamin Morris

Teaching and Learning Together in Higher Education

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Introduction – Collaborating To Develop And Improve Classroom Teaching: Student-Consultant For Teaching And Learning Program At Reed College, Kathryn C. Oleson

Teaching and Learning Together in Higher Education

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Integrating Twitter Into The Classroom, Toria Felton

Master of Education in Instructional Design and Technology Plan II Graduate Projects

The purpose of this project was to research, create, and implement lesson plans that utilized Twitter in the classroom. This project was also used to gauge how students felt about using social media in the classroom. It showed professors how to effectively and easily use the app in the classroom, which helped them to connect with more students and work on a platform that was of interest to many of the students.

Refreshed & Humbled: Altered Assumptions About Power And Payoffs, Roben Torosyan

Teaching and Learning Together in Higher Education

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Co-Creating Equity And Justice: Student And Employee Partnerships For Racial Justice, Judith S. Willison, Laura Boutwell, Mark Conrad, Sabrina Gentlewarrior, Richardson Pierre-Louis, Colleen Rua, Jeff Saint Dic, Jessie Barbosa, Ye Chen, Ruby Lila De La Rosa, Marvin Ezhan, Danielle M. Galstian, Frank Iaquinta, Tashima Point Du Jour, Brian Owusu, Marina Smoske, Jovan Taylor, James Gouzias, Kasheida Hector, Julian Millan, Michael Molyneaux, Jamal Rodney-Bonnette

Teaching and Learning Together in Higher Education

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Chaos In The Promiseland: Mentorship As Partnership In Undergraduate Research, Lee Torda, Marjorie Howe, Kirsten Ridlen

Teaching and Learning Together in Higher Education

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Students As Partners With Faculty In A Teacher Education Program, Karen Richardson, Deborah Sheehy, Misti Neutzling

Teaching and Learning Together in Higher Education

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Using Student Feedback To Fuel The Family Project, Susan Eliason

Teaching and Learning Together in Higher Education

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Creating A Learning Environment With Shared Responsibility For Assessment, Anne E. Doyle

Teaching and Learning Together in Higher Education

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Sharing Power To Promote Deeper Learning, Maura Rosenthal

Teaching and Learning Together in Higher Education

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Learning To Soar: Partnering With Underrepresented Students In Research, Jennifer Manak, Jenny O. Shanahan

Teaching and Learning Together in Higher Education

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Learner Empowerment: A Collaborative Approach To Peer-Assisted Learning In Global Languages, Minae Savas, Dorie Aucoin, Fernanda Ferreira

Teaching and Learning Together in Higher Education

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Peer Assisted Learning: Unexpected Benefits For All Stakeholders – Students, Peer Leaders & Faculty, Marybeth Tobin, Caitlin Golden

Teaching and Learning Together in Higher Education

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Introduction: Developing Student-Faculty Partnerships At Bridgewater State University, Lee Torda, Karen Richardson

Teaching and Learning Together in Higher Education

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Dynamic Discussion And Informed Improvements: Student-Led Revision Of First-Semester Organic Chemistry, Louise K. Charkoudian, Anna C. Bitners, Noah B. Bloch, Saadia Nawal

Teaching and Learning Together in Higher Education

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