Fall 2022 - EDUC 833 G031

Social and Moral Philosophy in Education (5)

Class Number: 6696

Delivery Method: In Person

Overview

  • Course Times + Location:

    Sep 16, 2022: Fri, 4:30–8:50 p.m.
    Location: TBA

    Oct 21, 2022: Fri, 4:30–8:50 p.m.
    Surrey

    Nov 4, 2022: Fri, 4:30–8:50 p.m.
    Surrey

    Nov 18, 2022: Fri, 4:30–8:50 p.m.
    Location: TBA

    Nov 25, 2022: Fri, 4:30–8:50 p.m.
    Surrey

    Sep 17, 2022: Sat, 8:30 a.m.–4:20 p.m.
    Location: TBA

    Oct 1, 2022: Sat, 8:30 a.m.–4:20 p.m.
    Location: TBA

    Oct 22, 2022: Sat, 8:30 a.m.–4:20 p.m.
    Surrey

    Nov 5, 2022: Sat, 8:30 a.m.–4:20 p.m.
    Location: TBA

    Nov 19, 2022: Sat, 8:30 a.m.–4:20 p.m.
    Location: TBA

    Nov 26, 2022: Sat, 8:30 a.m.–4:20 p.m.
    Location: TBA

  • Instructor:

    Celeste Snowber
    celeste@sfu.ca
    1 778 782-4453
    Office: SFU Surrey, 5th Floor Galleria, 5206
    Office Hours: By request on zoom

Description

CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:

An in-depth study of the ethical foundations of education. Areas in education where ethical questions arise are identified and elucidated. Classical and modern moral positions are examined for their adequacy as theories of moral justification. The topics include the value of education, freedom and equality, and moral and values education.

COURSE DETAILS:

Meeting Dates:
Sept 9, 10 & 23, 24
Oct 14, 15 & 28, 29
Nov 18, 19
Dec 2, 3

Meeting Times:
Friday night 4:30 – 9:00 pm
Saturday 8:30 am – 4:00 pm

Meeting Location: 
SFU Surrey, Room 5140

Note:  There will be several designated field trips which are outlined below.  Some of these dates may change due to outside organizations scheduling for the Fall. They will include trips to Holland Park in Surrey, Green Timbers Urban Forest in Surrey, Buntzen Lake in Port Moody, UBC Botanical Garden and the Surrey Art Gallery. There may also be some Friday night classes on ZOOM to accommodate guest scholars coming into class.

Additional Details:  Times off-campus/field trips
September 9:    Holland Park – Public Art/Art Installation/Writing across from SFU Surrey 13438 Old Yale Road, Surrey, BC . Leave during class https://www.surrey.ca/parks-recreation/parks/holland-park

September 10:  Green Timbers Urban Forest at Surrey Nature Centre entrance 14225 Green Timbers Way. Meet there at 9:00
https://www.surrey.ca/parks-recreation/surrey-parks/surrey-nature-centre

https://www.surrey.ca/parks-recreation/parks/green-timbers-urban-forest

September 24:  Buntzen Lake, Port Moody. https://www.buntzenlake.ca/ We will meet there in the 1st parking lot on the last parking lot on the right at 9:00 am.

October 29:  University of British Columbia Botanical Garden https://botanicalgarden.ubc.ca/ We will meet there at 10:00 am, 6804 SW Marine Drive Vancouver. Fee: $8.00 group rate

TBD        Surrey Art Gallery. 13750 88 Ave, Surrey. Date TBD 

https://www.surrey.ca/arts-culture/surrey-art-gallery

COURSE-LEVEL EDUCATIONAL GOALS:

This course investigates the relationship between ecology, place, and philosophy and through knowing and learning through all the senses.  The course will address how developing an intimate connection to the landscape can open up understandings of ecological education. Emphasis will be on cultivating an embodied and aesthetic lens to expanding a philosophy of place.  Integral to this course is engaging in walking and moving in a variety of urban and wild landscapes to foster connections between writing and the land. Time will be given to reading landscape writers, artistic and scientific writers and philosophers as a way of inspiring inquiry which integrates mind, body, heart and the earth.

  • Students will be able to more clearly articulate their own philosophical understanding to ecology, place, themselves and the landscape and how it connects to their inquiry, research and teaching/facilitating.
  • A broader understanding of what it means to have different lens into the relationship between the natural and urban world in connection to themselves.
  • Expand their appreciation and understanding of what it means to live in a reciprocal connection to place, and what animates their own inquiry.
  • To bring their whole bodies, minds, emotions to scholarship and find the relationship between moving in the landscape, whether that is walking or another form — writing, creating and finding and articulating voice.

Grading

  • Narrative on Place 20%
  • Group Presentations 20%
  • Final Project 50%
  • Patricipation, reading, writing and somatic practice 10%

NOTES:

Writing from the body and place practice in and out of class

It will be expected that you write by hand during class in each session and at certain times bring your writing to the larger group. You will also be expected to engage in short writes several times a week and bring small segments of your work to the class. You will also be required to have a moving or walking practice in connection to place a few times a week, which your writing can emerge from. This will be explained during the first class.

REQUIREMENTS:

Participation, reading, writing and somatic practice:  Students are expected to do the required reading and engage in a weekly writing practice and walking/somatic practice within the landscape. There will be times in class to also share your writing.

Narrative on place:  Students will be doing weekly writing in connection to place. This assignment is to hand in a narrative up to 3 pages or 3 pages of poems as a sample of your work so I can give you feedback. Due: October 10.

Group Presentations: Students will be working in groups to facilitate connections to the readings throughout the semester.  It is encouraged to engage the class in experiential, arts-based, embodied, or holistic methods to connect to the particular author. These will be done in October and November.

Final Project: Students will create a major project that explores a place-based inquiry of their choice which will develop throughout the course of the semester.  This project can be a combination of writing, film, poetics, performance, narrative or just writing. This is a significant research inquiry and will include an oral presentation of your work the final two classes. There will be ample time within the course to go over the parameters of this project.

Abstract of final project due on October 14.
Sharing of this project will be on the last class –Due: Dec. 2, 3.  
All projects due by Dec. 5.

Materials

MATERIALS + SUPPLIES:

You will need a journal to bring to class and pens for writing by hand.  You will also need to wear comfortable clothes to do any walking or gentle moving in connection to writing.  We will take several field trips in connection to place in the Lower Mainland and this will occur rain or shine and therefore appropriate clothing for weather will be needed.

REQUIRED READING:

Ingold, T.  (2020). Correspondences. Wiley publishers.
ISBN: 978-1-509-54410-3

Kimmerer, R. W.  (2015). Braiding sweetgrass: Indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge and the teaching of plants. Milkweed Editions.
ISBN: 978-1-571-31356-0

Shepherd, N.  2008. The living mountain. Edinburgh: Canongate Books.
ISBN: 978-0-85786-183-2

Snowber, C. (2016). Embodied inquiry. Rotterdam, The Netherlands: Sense Publishing.
ISBN: 978-94-6300-753-5

JCACS Vol. 18 No. 2 (2021): Walking: Attuning to an Earthly Curriculum https://jcacs.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/jcacs/issue/view/2293

Selected Journal Articles/Chapters.


RECOMMENDED READING:

Aalto, K. (2020). Women writing wild: Women poets, ramblers, and mavericks who shape how we see the natural world. Workman. 
ISBN: 978-1-604-69927-2

Abram, D. (2010). Becoming animal: An earthly cosmology. NY: Pantheon Books.
ISBN: 978-0-375-42171-6

Beresford-Kroedger, D. (2019). To speak for trees: My life’s journey from ancient Celtic wisdom to a healing vision of the forest. Random House Canada.
ISBN: 978-0-735-27507-2

Haupt, L. L. (2021). Rooted: Life at the crossroads of science, nature and spirit. Little Brown Spark.
ISBN: 978-0-316-42649-7

Living artfully: Reflections from the far west coast. (2012). A. Sinner & C. Lowther, (Eds.) Toronto, ON: Key Publishing House.
ISBN: 978-1-926-78014-6

Simard, S. (2021). Finding the mother tree: Discovering the wisdom of the forest. Allen Lane/Penguin.


ISBN: 978-0-735-23775-9

REQUIRED READING NOTES:

Your personalized Course Material list, including digital and physical textbooks, are available through the SFU Bookstore website by simply entering your Computing ID at: shop.sfu.ca/course-materials/my-personalized-course-materials.

Graduate Studies Notes:

Important dates and deadlines for graduate students are found here: http://www.sfu.ca/dean-gradstudies/current/important_dates/guidelines.html. The deadline to drop a course with a 100% refund is the end of week 2. The deadline to drop with no notation on your transcript is the end of week 3.

Registrar Notes:

ACADEMIC INTEGRITY: YOUR WORK, YOUR SUCCESS

SFU’s Academic Integrity website http://www.sfu.ca/students/academicintegrity.html is filled with information on what is meant by academic dishonesty, where you can find resources to help with your studies and the consequences of cheating. Check out the site for more information and videos that help explain the issues in plain English.

Each student is responsible for his or her conduct as it affects the university community. Academic dishonesty, in whatever form, is ultimately destructive of the values of the university. Furthermore, it is unfair and discouraging to the majority of students who pursue their studies honestly. Scholarly integrity is required of all members of the university. http://www.sfu.ca/policies/gazette/student/s10-01.html