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Re-imagining General Education

Re-imagining General Education. The North Park Dialogue David Koeller. An Education Based on Micah 6:8. Will be practical. It speaks of doing justice, not simply contemplating it. Must be interdisciplinary. Real world problems do not nicely divide themselves into disciplinary boxes.

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Re-imagining General Education

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  1. Re-imagining General Education The North Park Dialogue David Koeller

  2. An Education Based on Micah 6:8 • Will be practical. It speaks of doing justice, not simply contemplating it. • Must be interdisciplinary. Real world problems do not nicely divide themselves into disciplinary boxes. • Cannot be completed in 4 years and 120 credit hours. Hence, life long learning. • Should not be preparation for life in the academy, but preparation for life in the world. • Must include concerns about character.

  3. Caveat • I have a personal stake in the program. • This is paper is based on trends in the program, not as it actually was at any moment. • The program since has been significantly altered.

  4. Three Elements of General Education • Knowledge • Skills • Character

  5. Knowledge

  6. The Dialogue Sequence • Dialogue 1: What Does it Mean to Be Human? • Dialogue 2: What Does it Mean to Be Ethical? Research Paper • Dialogue 3: Experiential Learning and Public Presentation

  7. Subject Expert Amateur Amateur Amateur Amateur

  8. Learner Learner Subject Learner Learner (Teacher)

  9. Skills

  10. A New Quadrivium: • Writing • Rhetoric • Logic • Hermeneutics

  11. “the mixed message curriculum” • Gerald Graff. Clueless in Academe • Commonalities Among the Disciplines • Source of data • Forms of Analysis • Means of Communicating Results

  12. Writing To Learn • Writing is part of the learning process • Emphasis on revision • Global revisions • Paragraph revisions • Sentence level revisions

  13. Revision Steps • Peer Review of First Draft • Revise First Draft • Writing Advisor Reads Second Draft • Conference with WA on Second Draft • Revise Second Draft • Third Draft is read and graded by instructor

  14. Character • Reflection • Narrative Essay NPD 1 • What should be done? NPD 2 • Experiential Learning • NPD 3

  15. NPD 3: Justice and Education • Longitudinal Study of the Williams Multi-plex. • Students observe students, interview faculty members and administrators • Prepare a report that is presented to parents, faculty and administrators.

  16. Why Did It Fail? • Failure to re-imagine the professoriate • Failure to re-imagine the institution • Failure to re-imagine our students

  17. Re-imagining the Professoriate • Expertise • Passion for one’s Discipline • A Liberal Arts program requires liberally educated professors

  18. Re-imagining the Institution • University as Ivory Tower • Pure over applied • Knowledge for Knowledge Sake

  19. Re-imagining our Students • The professoriate should not be the standard for pedagogy: • “That’s the way we did it when I was in school” • Our students aren’t us

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