Out There Learning

Critical Reflections on Off-Campus Study Programs

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

AvDeborah Louise Curran,Cameron Owens,Helga Thorson,Elizabeth Vibert

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Universities across North America and beyond are experiencing growing demand for off-campus, experiential learning. Exploring the foundations of what it means to learn "out there," Out There Learning is an informed, critical investigation of the pedagogical philosophies and practices involved in short-term, off-campus programs or field courses. Bringing together contributors’ individual research and experience teaching or administering off-campus study programs, Out There Learning examines and challenges common assumptions about pedagogy, place, and personal transformation, while also providing experience-based insights and advice for getting the most out of faculty-led field courses. Divided into three sections that investigate aspects of pedagogy, ethics of place, and course and program assessment, this collection offers "voices from the field" highlighting the experiences of faculty members, students, teaching assistants, and community members engaged in every aspect of an off-campus study programs. Several chapters examine study programs in the traditional territories of Indigenous communities and in the Global South. Containing an appendix highlighting some examples of off-campus study programs, Out There Learning offers new pathways for faculty, staff, and college and university administrators interested in enriching the experience of non-traditional avenues of study.

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Utgivningsdatum2019-01-30
Mått160 x 234 x 23 mm
Vikt560 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor296
FörlagUniversity of Toronto Press
ISBN9781487504113

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Deborah Curran is associate professor in the Faculty of Law and School of Environmental Studies at the University of Victoria. Cameron Owens is associate teaching professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Victoria. Helga Thorson is associate professor and chair in the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies at the University of Victoria. Elizabeth Vibert is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Victoria. She is the author of Traders' Tales: Narratives of Cultural Encounters in the Columbia Plateau, 1807-1846 (University of Oklahoma Press, 2000).

SECTION 1: THE PROCESSES OF LEARNING OUT THERESection OverviewWhere the past and present intersect …Sam Kerr CHAPTER ONE"You cannot avoid all of this past, present, and future when it’s everywhere around you": Reflecting Relational Thinking in Field Study ExperiencesKacy McKinney Living in the moment ...Emily Halvorsen CHAPTER TWOAn Integrative, Thematic Approach to International Field Study ProgramsAaron Williams Being part of something bigger …Kathleen O’Reilly CHAPTER THREEThe Enlivened Classroom: Bringing the Field Back to CampusNakanyike B. Musisi There is no front of the classroom here …Rob Cook CHAPTER FOURSettlers Unsettled: Using Field Schools and Digital Stories to Transform Geographies of Ignorance About Indigenous Peoples in CanadaHeather Castleden, Kiley Daley, Vanessa Sloan Morgan, and Paul Sylvestre Discovering traces of the past …Sara Lax SECTION 2: IMPLICATIONS OF PLACE Section OverviewConnecting with the community …Aisling Kennedy CHAPTER FIVEOutsider Education: Indigenous Law and Land-Based LearningJohn Borrows Live life with significance …Freya Selander CHAPTER SIXPutting Law in its Place: Field School Explorations of Indigenous and Colonial Legal GeographiesDeborah Curran Mysteries remain …Laura Buchan CHAPTER SEVENPower in Place: Dilemmas in Leading Field Schools to the Global SouthElizabeth Vibert and Kirsten Sadeghi-Yekta What you can’t get from a textbook …Sarah Elwood SECTION 3: ASSESSING THE VALUE OF THE JOURNEY Section OverviewKuala Lumpur & Singapore Comparison I and IIBonny Fu CHAPTER EIGHTGetting beyond "It changed my life": Assessment of Out-There TransformationJanelle S. Peifer and Elaine Meyer-Lee 9:14 AM: Saturday, May 14, 2016"The world moves through us" …Jake Noah Sherman CHAPTER NINEAssessing Learning "Out There": Four Key Challenges and OpportunitiesCameron Owens and Maral Sotoudehnia Embracing complexities …Liah Formby CHAPTER TENTransformation in the Field: Short-Term Study Abroad and the Pursuit of ChangesMichael R. Glass Education can be empowering …Emily Tennent

"Out There Learning poses fundamental questions about the nature of education in the twenty-first century, especially at a time in which the virtual has brought new challenges and possibilities to the fore. The editors and authors invite us to ponder on the rationale and consequences of field schools on peoples and places and to be aware of the potential for perpetuating neoliberal arrangements that have permeated higher education, bringing a slew of ethical questions about motivations, methods, and implications."- Hélène B. Ducros (Europe Now Journal, April 2020)