Joan, I already included this PDW in my "must go" list! What a wonderful
initiative, thanks for putting this together! Have a wonderful trip to South
America (home of Brazil, aka World Cup Champions for the 5th time!), and see
you in Denver,
Regina
Joan Weiner wrote:
> Please excuse any cross postings and also please plan on joining us at this
> special Academy PDW.
>
> The World as Classroom: Pedagogies of Engagement
> (co-sponsored by the Teaching Theme Committee and
> the Practitioner Theme Committee )
>
> Saturday, 10 August 2002
>
> This workshop explores the characteristics, varieties and implications of
> pedagogies of engagement, including Service-Learning and other active,
> collaborative, problem-based experiential teaching methods. Our aim will
> be to develop a framework for understanding their actual and potential
> contributions to student learning, to social change enhancing the
> effectiveness of institutions and the well-being of their members, and to
> the development of ourselves as scholars of teaching and learning and of
> our scholarly disciplines. The case for pedagogies of engagement rests on
> the integration of all three.
>
> The first workshop phase will include descriptions of ongoing projects that
> differ widely in design but have in common teaching and learning methods
> which entail diagnosis and problem-solving interventions in non-classroom
> organizations aimed explicitly at "making a (positive) difference" in those
> organizations.
>
> In the second phase of the workshop, we will share information about
> institutional support systems, networks, funding opportunities and other
> resources available to faculty committed to developing pedagogies of
> engagement.
>
> And in the third phase of the workshop, we will focus on concrete,
> practical implications of the POE movement for students and teachers, for
> our educational institutions, for faculty development, reward, and support
> systems, and for our scholarly disciplines. In particular, we will work to
> develop recommendations for the Academy's future program agendas.
>
> Workshop participants include PDW organizers Joan Weiner (Drexel
> University; Teaching Theme Committee chair), Laurie DiPadova (University of
> Utah, who's been the point person for the Academy's Service Learning
> activities for the last several years) John Miller (Bucknell University,
> developer of a comprehensive project management course), David Jamieson
> (Pepperdine; Practitioner Theme Committee chair), keynote speaker Andy
> VanDeVen (immediate past president of the Academy), and other panel members
> David Lisman (Director of the Center for Service Learning and Civic
> Engagement at the University of Denver) and Edward Zlotkowski (founder of
> Bentley College's Service-Learning Project, nationally recognized for his
> work with AAHE and Campus Compact).
>
> Schedule
> Saturday, August 10th -
> 12:30 pm, beginning with a working lunch, to 4:00 p.m., Adams Mark Hotel,
> Plaza Court 5
>
> While registration is not required to attend this PDW, we would like to
> assure that there will be enough food and handout copies for you. Please
> let Joan Weiner (by e-mail at
weinerjl@drexel.edu, or phone 215 895-1797)
> know that you plan to join us.