Full Description
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.
Contents
SECTION 1: THE PROCESSES OF LEARNING OUT THERE
Section Overview
Where 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 Experiences
Kacy McKinney
Living in the moment ...
Emily Halvorsen
CHAPTER TWO
An Integrative, Thematic Approach to International Field Study Programs
Aaron Williams
Being part of something bigger ...
Kathleen O'Reilly
CHAPTER THREE
The Enlivened Classroom: Bringing the Field Back to Campus
Nakanyike B. Musisi
There is no front of the classroom here ...
Rob Cook
CHAPTER FOUR
Settlers Unsettled: Using Field Schools and Digital Stories to Transform Geographies of Ignorance About Indigenous Peoples in Canada
Heather Castleden, Kiley Daley, Vanessa Sloan Morgan, and Paul Sylvestre
Discovering traces of the past ...
Sara Lax
SECTION 2: IMPLICATIONS OF PLACE
Section Overview
Connecting with the community ...
Aisling Kennedy
CHAPTER FIVE
Outsider Education: Indigenous Law and Land-Based Learning
John Borrows
Live life with significance ...
Freya Selander
CHAPTER SIX
Putting Law in its Place: Field School Explorations of Indigenous and Colonial Legal Geographies
Deborah Curran
Mysteries remain ...
Laura Buchan
CHAPTER SEVEN
Power in Place: Dilemmas in Leading Field Schools to the Global South
Elizabeth Vibert and Kirsten Sadeghi-Yekta
What you can't get from a textbook ...
Sarah Elwood
SECTION 3: ASSESSING THE VALUE OF THE JOURNEY
Section Overview
Kuala Lumpur & Singapore Comparison I and II
Bonny Fu
CHAPTER EIGHT
Getting beyond "It changed my life": Assessment of Out-There Transformation
Janelle S. Peifer and Elaine Meyer-Lee
9:14 AM: Saturday, May 14, 2016
"The world moves through us" ...
Jake Noah Sherman
CHAPTER NINE
Assessing Learning "Out There": Four Key Challenges and Opportunities
Cameron Owens and Maral Sotoudehnia
Embracing complexities ...
Liah Formby
CHAPTER TEN
Transformation in the Field: Short-Term Study Abroad and the Pursuit of Changes
Michael R. Glass
Education can be empowering ...
Emily Tennent
