Teaching & Learning
2016
Projects at the Asian Rural Institute
One of the distinct advantages of working with undergraduates, is the creative, inquisitive energy they bring to the table. This month I threw them into the deep end. I asked them to develop some collaborative research projects, define their contributions to the project, and work with a community partner in a country other than their own.
2015
Contested Spaces – Arkansas River Haiku
A haiku in honor of the 2014 ACM-SAIL Contested Spaces learning seminar in Colorado and to a great rafting team. There is tremendous opportunity in this experience to consider how integral theory applies to thinking about environmental learning, action, and reflection.
2015
This I believe…as a Civic Engagement Steward
While theory provides a wonderful guide, it is the experiment, the action, and the practice that allows us to grow, to construct knowledge and to create and foster relationships. Practice reveals that meaningful work comes in a variety of forms. It makes visible our natural and social connections while inviting one to explore and even live to one’s values.
2015
Returning to the new familiar
I felt a profound sense of connectedness and spirit in this place. I listened to the fluttering of birds on wing, the pace of fellow travelers making music with footsteps in the small stones, the wind moving branches and leaves, and to the warmth of the sun shining into my spirit.
2014
Gift of the Persistently Possible
Just how does one step into the next story? In the liberal arts sense, we do it with thoughtfulness. Thoughtfulness embodied and expressed by people in the careful way they think and in how they care about other people and places.
2014
Culture is Knowledge – Knowledge is Culture
From EnvSci Australia…09 Feb 2012 Today’s theme was “Ways of Knowing” as it relates to observing and recording culture. Our guide for this experience was Dr. John Bradley, simply an extraordinary, gifted teacher, anthropologist and human. John has worked with the Yanyuwa people of the Northern Territory; home country is the SW coast of the […]
