Event Title

Plenary 4: Engaged Student Learning Across Disciplines: Reflection Within and Beyond the Classroom

Location

Moakley Auditorium

Start Time

12-5-2011 3:00 PM

End Time

12-5-2011 4:00 PM

Description

Contemplative pedagogy introduces a range of methods into our courses which aim to explore various mindfulness-based practices which have been shown to improve engaged student learning. By incorporating reflection on one's own immediate experience, faculty and students can better explore such analytic categories as objectivity, bias, point-of-view, acquired knowledge, and argumentation. In addition, supporting BSU's social justice initiative, recent research has demonstrated that training in reflective practices fosters development of self-knowledge, compassion (for oneself, others and the planet), and community-building. Based on the enthusiastic response to our 2010 roundtable, we plan to provide attendees further examples of such pedagogical techniques. In addition, ample discussion time will allow attendees to explore how they might incorporate such techniques into their own discipline-specific teaching.

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Moderator: Steven Young

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Plenary 4: Engaged Student Learning Across Disciplines: Reflection Within and Beyond the Classroom

Moakley Auditorium

Contemplative pedagogy introduces a range of methods into our courses which aim to explore various mindfulness-based practices which have been shown to improve engaged student learning. By incorporating reflection on one's own immediate experience, faculty and students can better explore such analytic categories as objectivity, bias, point-of-view, acquired knowledge, and argumentation. In addition, supporting BSU's social justice initiative, recent research has demonstrated that training in reflective practices fosters development of self-knowledge, compassion (for oneself, others and the planet), and community-building. Based on the enthusiastic response to our 2010 roundtable, we plan to provide attendees further examples of such pedagogical techniques. In addition, ample discussion time will allow attendees to explore how they might incorporate such techniques into their own discipline-specific teaching.