Overview

Description

CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:

Building on the experience of EDUC 252, prospective educators will continue to develop their reflective practice. Various educational issues related to the caring for learners and the creation of learning communities will be explored. Students will spend time in educational settings exploring the importance of connected educational experiences for learners. Students with credit for EDUC 401 or holding a teaching certificate may not take this course for credit Writing.

COURSE DETAILS:

This course offers students the opportunity to learn and practice writing as a vehicle for both reflective practice and place-based fieldwork. Under this aim, students explore different practices and forms of reflective writing/fieldwork, contributing to the crafting of a personal pedagogical creed and living curriculum resources. This course aims at discovering the vital and essential connection between being a reflective person and being a critically reflective educator through encountering and cultivating world-centered pedagogical practices and curricular orientations.

COURSE-LEVEL EDUCATIONAL GOALS:

While our approach to assessment is not one of 'ticking boxes', it is still useful to have 'big picture' learning/educational goals in mind to orient all involved along the journey through the course and the assignments.

• Becoming a deeply reflective person, thereby being capable of creating not only a reflective life for oneself but also reflective moments, practices, contexts, settings, and institutions that can contribute to establishing and sustaining a culture of civility, care, compassion, creativity, integrity, and healing.
• Exploring and discovering what matters—what is meaningful—in one’s life as student, educator, professional, parent, sibling, partner, friend, etc., and most of all, as a human being. As well, integrating what is meaningful in all these various dimensions of our lives so that one lives and acts as a whole person.
• Crafting a pedagogical creed as well as living curriculum resources, articulating what you value about life, learning, teaching, and education.
• Integrating one’s personal ‘life creed’ with their pedagogical creed – the aim being a move toward holistic integration of the personal, professional, and academic in one’s life and reflective practice.
• Exploring and cultivating a diversity of reflective writing and field-work practices that support your work as a reflective person, educator and researcher, including creative, arts-based and multimodal forms of communication.
• Becoming practiced at working with one’s consciousness, emotions, and embodied states in a way that supports reflection.
• Caring about and understanding the importance of place, land and environment as sites of reflective practice and pedagogy.
• Understanding and appreciating the interconnections and continuities between teaching, research and place-based fieldwork practices.

Grading

Materials

REQUIRED READING NOTES: