Teaching in the Collegiate Classroom
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Course Long Title
Teaching in the Collegiate Classroom
Subject Code
CAED
Course Number
711
School(s)
Academic Level
GR - Graduate
Description
Arts Pedagogy: Approaches to Teaching & Learning in the Collegiate Classroom
In her book, Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom, bell hooks states, "To educate as the practice of freedom is a way of teaching anyone can learn." In our class, we will learn about teaching as artist-teachers in higher education and adult community programs. Together, we will read and discuss foundational education philosophies that continue to shape arts education discourse and practice. Our study will include contemporary artist-teachers and theorists who explore teaching and learning in diverse classrooms and contexts.
Together, we will read essays, prompts, provocations, and interviews. We'll listen to podcasts, watch videos and hear from guests who share about their work as artist-teachers. Our class spirit is generative and collaborative. It invites process, inquiry and reflection. Our learning also will be experiential. In addition to class discussion and in-class writing prompts, we will engage critically and creatively with course texts by doing activities that you might bring into your own classrooms. For example, we will use a variety of participation techniques and arts-based activities to study our material and to model ways of teaching your students.
We will learn about student-centered pedagogy, classroom management, facilitating equitable classroom cultures, lesson planning, classroom instruction, and critiques as formative assessment. Throughout, we will also consider what can sometimes seem to be less tangible - the relational, joyful and deep transformation that comes from teaching-learning with others.
In her book, Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom, bell hooks states, "To educate as the practice of freedom is a way of teaching anyone can learn." In our class, we will learn about teaching as artist-teachers in higher education and adult community programs. Together, we will read and discuss foundational education philosophies that continue to shape arts education discourse and practice. Our study will include contemporary artist-teachers and theorists who explore teaching and learning in diverse classrooms and contexts.
Together, we will read essays, prompts, provocations, and interviews. We'll listen to podcasts, watch videos and hear from guests who share about their work as artist-teachers. Our class spirit is generative and collaborative. It invites process, inquiry and reflection. Our learning also will be experiential. In addition to class discussion and in-class writing prompts, we will engage critically and creatively with course texts by doing activities that you might bring into your own classrooms. For example, we will use a variety of participation techniques and arts-based activities to study our material and to model ways of teaching your students.
We will learn about student-centered pedagogy, classroom management, facilitating equitable classroom cultures, lesson planning, classroom instruction, and critiques as formative assessment. Throughout, we will also consider what can sometimes seem to be less tangible - the relational, joyful and deep transformation that comes from teaching-learning with others.