Explorations of
Teaching: What, Why, How and Who
Our collective interest in talking about and sharing our experiences
teaching and learning both on a philosophical and practical
level have led us to a year-long collaborative working group
to explore the why, what, and how we teach and learn, who
we are as teachers and learners and how these questions and
the answers to them are mutually influential.
We will address philosophical and theoretical questions as
well as practical issues. Rather than separating them, we
will tie these together. We will take advantage of the unique
character of this group, which includes graduate students
and faculty members from a wide variety of academic disciplines.
We will address specific disciplinary issues to keep things
relevant while at the same time concentrating on bigger or
broader questions that are shared, and learning from the different
teaching styles and methods in the different disciplines.
There will be selected readings for each meeting, and discussions
will focus on these selections as well as our own experiences.
Ongoing participation is encouraged to the extent that busy
schedules permit (and will be required for receipt of the
Dean's Certificate in Pedagogy).
This course is open to all graduate students and faculty.
Unless otherwise indicated, all meetings are at the Graduate
School of Social Work and Social Research. Parking is readily
available, as is the Bryn Mawr Shuttle service. Please let
us know if you would like childcare.
Course Materials
Anne Dalke (2002) Teaching to Learn, Learning to Teach, P.
Lang
Paulo Freire (1998) Pedagogy of Freedom, Ethics, Democracy
and Civic Courage, Rowman & Littlefield.
Parker J. Palmer (1997) The Courage to Teach: Exploring the
Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life, Jossey-Bass Inc.
Denise Clark Pope (2001) "Doing School" How We are
Creating a Generation of Stressed Out, Materialistic,and Miseducated
Students, Yale University Press.
Sharon Welch, Feminist Ethic of Risk (1999) Fortress Press
All articles will be available on Blackboard or on the Serendip
website.
Schedule (with links to discussion
summaries)
Wednesday, September 10, 2003, 5-7 PM, Introduction
Peggy MacIntosh, Feeling like a fraud
Anne Dalke (2002) Teaching to Learn, Learning to Teach, P.
Lang
Dinner provided
Wednesday, October 29, 2003, 12- 2 PM, Catharine
Stimpson
Catharine Stimpson, Myths of Transformation:
Realities of Change (PDF format, 690 KB), PMLA 115, 5
(October 2000), 1142-1153
Catharine Stimpson, General Education
for Graduate Education (PDF format, 337 KB), The Chronicle
Review, from the issue dated November 1, 2002
Catharine R. Stimpson, "The
Idea of the Corporate University (PDF format, 753 KB),"
Written for a conference at the Society of Humanities, Cornell
University on "The Idea of the University," October
18-19, 2002. We thank Catharine Stimpson for giving us permission
to post this paper, which was presented at a conference and
is still very much a work in progress.
Friday, December 5, 2003, 1-3 PM, Evaluation
and feedback for students and teachers.
Guild Hall, Room 101
Readings:
Denise Clark Pope (2001) "Doing School": How We
are Creating a Generation of Stressed Out, Materialistic,
and Miseducated Students, Yale University Press.
"A Retrospect on Making and Judging," Chapter 8
in Jerome Bruner (1968) Toward a Theory of Instruction
January 23, 2004, 12-3 p.m.
Jody Cohen (Education Program). Discussion of Paulo Freire
(1998) Pedagogy of Freedom, Ethics, Democracy and Civic Courage,
Rowman and Littlefield.
March 10, 2004, 12-2 p.m. Who is
the Teaching Self?
Parker J. Palmer (1997)The Courage to Teach: Exploring the
Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life, Jossey-Bass Inc.
April 23, 2004, 9-12.
Workshop with Mary Belenky
and Blythe Clinchy
Bryn
Mawr Now, April 29, 2004: "Influential Psychologists
Featured at Seminar"
Location: Ely Room at Wyndham
House
Followed by lunch with Professors
Belenky and Clinchy
Readings:
Mary Field Belenky, Blythe McVicker Clinchy, Nancy Rule Goldberger,
Jill Mattuck Tarule (1986) Women's Ways of Knowing, Basic
Books, Chapter 10
Clinchy, B. McV. (1996). Connected and Separate Knowing: Toward
a Marriage of Two Minds. In N. R. Goldberger, J. M. Tarule,
B. McV. Clinchy, & M. F. Belenky (Eds.), Knowledge, Difference,
and Power: Essays Inspired by Women's Ways of Knowing (Pp.
205-247). New York: Basic Books.
Readings are available on the Explorations Blackboard site.
If anyone does not have access to this, please contact Corey
Shdaimah at cshdaima@brynmawr.edu.
May 25, 2004, 1-3 p.m.
Location: Kingsbury Room, Social Work
Teaching and Learning with Uncertainty
Sharon Welch, Feminist Ethic of Risk (1999) Fortress Press
Paul Grobstein, A Vision of Science (and Science Education)
in the 21st Century: Everybody "Getting It Less Wrong"
Together
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