[Vacets] FW: Critical Education
Tho Vu
tho at topvu.com
Mon Jul 2 19:57:02 PDT 2007
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From: Tho Vu [mailto:tho at topvu.com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2007 10:54 PM
Cc: 'Vu, Tho T.'
Subject: Critical Education
Per your subject question, listed below are the topics on critical education
that HECUE talked about.
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What is Experiential Education?
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Lens Theory
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" <http://courses.hecua.org/mod/resource/view.php?id=430> Best
Practices" in Experiential Education
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<http://courses.hecua.org/mod/resource/view.php?id=418> Abstract of
Peter Ewell's 1997 paper on the nature of learning
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<http://courses.hecua.org/mod/resource/view.php?id=419> "Calling
the question" on civic engagement
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<http://courses.hecua.org/mod/resource/view.php?id=430> "Best
Practices" in Experiential Education
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<http://courses.hecua.org/mod/resource/view.php?id=436> HECUA
pedagogy and practices
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<http://courses.hecua.org/mod/resource/view.php?id=439> Nadinne
Cruz: Challenge to a notion of service
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<http://courses.hecua.org/mod/resource/view.php?id=421>
Incorporating experiential and intercultural learning, a checklist
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<http://courses.hecua.org/mod/resource/view.php?id=432> Questions
from two frameworks on course design
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Concerns and goals from attendees
The key words are experiential education, service learning, intercultural
learning and internship. For example according to Dewey, experiential
education is an inductive process that takes raw experience through an
intentional learning format and transformed into working usable knowlege.
Attached are abstracts on "Best Practices of Experiential Learning" and
"Nature of Learning". If you like to see any of the articles as listed,
please let me know. Or if you have a password to HECUE web site, you can get
them.
It seems to me that our school of engineering have already been doing many
of this critical education, because of its nature of engineering practices,
specifically in the course on control systems & automation that i was
involved with in the last semester. From my observation at the seminar so
far, it seems that other schools at UST have not been doing much on this
critical education. That's probably why the university administration offers
the subject seminar.
Hope this helps a bit.
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Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2007 8:50 AM
To: 'tho at topvu.com'
Subject: RE: HECUA & UST, June 07: Exploring the Intercultural through
Experiential Education in the Twin Cities
I've heard the phrase "critical education" used in two different ways in the
last 10 years. What does this group mean by it?
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From: Tho Vu [mailto:tho at topvu.com]
Sent: Monday, June 25, 2007 10:37 PM
Subject: HECUA & UST, June 07: Exploring the Intercultural through
Experiential Education in the Twin Cities
Enclosed is the topic outline of the subject seminar that i'm taking this
week, FYI. The subject today on critical education is informative and
helpful. You're probably already familiar with the subject. Thomas.
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Topic outline
Welcome to the June 2007 Faculty Seminar.
1
Monday, June 25, 11 AM to 4 PM
11:00 AM: Meet in the downstairs conference room of the Midtown Exchange
Building, Lake Street and Chicago Avenue, Minneapolis. The conference room
is in the basement. Walk to the back of the "1928 Building," the
<http://www.midtowncommunityworks.org/exchange/> former Sears building, and
go down the stairs to the basement.
Click here <http://www.ndc-mn.org/DirectionstoMGM.html> for driving
directions. Better yet, take the bus. The Lake Street Council and Metro
Transit <http://www.metrotransit.org/> run the Route 21 Hop and Shop
program. More than a <http://www.lakestreetcouncil.org/pro-21list.htm>
dozen of the vendors at the Midtown Global Market--where you'll purchase
your lunch today-- offer discounts if you present proof that you arrived via
Metro Transit (proof can be a valid 31-Day Pass, Stored Value Card,
Metropass, Go-To Card, or current transfer). Use Metro Transit's Trip
Planner <http://tips.metc.state.mn.us/mntest/cgi-bin/itin_page_ie.pl> to
plan your bus travel. It's easy from UST.
11:00 AM: Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs will welcome the
group.
11:30 AM: Please buy your lunch upstairs in the Midtown Global Market
<http://midtownglobalmarket.org/> . Eat upstairs or return to the conference
room and chat over lunch. Please bring cash, as most of the merchants do not
accept checks and many would rather not accept credit cards.
1:00 PM~4:00 PM: Senior Program Director and Program Faculty for HECUA's
Metro Urban Studies Term <http://www.hecua.org/mu_studies.html> , leads a
seminar on critical education.
Readings:
Resource <http://courses.hecua.org/theme/chameleon/pix/f/pdf.gif> Abstract
of <http://courses.hecua.org/mod/resource/view.php?id=418> Peter Ewell's
1997 paper on the nature of learning
* Resource <http://courses.hecua.org/theme/chameleon/pix/f/word.gif>
Ewell's <http://courses.hecua.org/mod/resource/view.php?id=431> complete
paper
* Resource <http://courses.hecua.org/theme/chameleon/pix/f/pdf.gif>
"Calling <http://courses.hecua.org/mod/resource/view.php?id=419> the
question" on civic engagement
* Resource <http://courses.hecua.org/theme/chameleon/pix/f/pdf.gif>
"Best <http://courses.hecua.org/mod/resource/view.php?id=430> Practices" in
Experiential Education
* Resource <http://courses.hecua.org/theme/chameleon/pix/f/pdf.gif>
HECUA <http://courses.hecua.org/mod/resource/view.php?id=436> pedagogy and
practices
* Resource <http://courses.hecua.org/theme/chameleon/pix/f/pdf.gif>
Higher <http://courses.hecua.org/mod/resource/view.php?id=438> Education
Exchange, 2002 (Contains Phil Sandro article)
* Resource <http://courses.hecua.org/theme/chameleon/pix/f/pdf.gif>
Nadinne <http://courses.hecua.org/mod/resource/view.php?id=439> Cruz:
Challenge to a notion of service
Resource <http://courses.hecua.org/theme/chameleon/pix/f/word.gif> Concerns
and <http://courses.hecua.org/mod/resource/view.php?id=442> goals (Word
document)
<http://courses.hecua.org/course/view.php?id=19&topic=1> Show only topic 1
2
Tuesday, June 26, 9:30 AM to 4 PM
9:30 AM: Meet in the 4th floor conference room of the Wright Building, 2233
University Ave. West, St. Paul, MN 55114 (cross-street is Hampden Ave;
directions are here <http://hecua.org/contact.html> ). Parking is free in
the front lot and behind the building. HECUA's office is housed in this
building, along with several other local nonprofits. Enter the building,
take the elevator up to the 4th floor. Turn left down the hall. The
conference room is on the left.
9:30 AM~ 12 noon Discussion of goals and practices. We'll look at a set of
questions aiming to help you prepare to set up a course that uses
experiential teaching and learning, and that involves "the intercultural."
Your preliminary response to these questions will be due Friday.
10:30 AM: Concept- and power-mapping of experiential/service/off-campus
learning at UST, and sharing your own experiences with one another. We will
be joined by xxx, HECUA's Manager of Internships and Community Partnerships.
Lunch will be catered in from Que Nha, a Vietnamese restaurant on University
Ave.
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM: A bus tour of St. Paul neighborhoods, led by a planner
from the Metropolitan Council, will leave from and return to the Wright
Building.
Readings (please be familiar with the Ewell abstract, listed above under
Monday):
* Resource <http://courses.hecua.org/theme/chameleon/pix/f/html.gif>
Neighborhoods of St. Paul: profiles by the Wilder
<http://courses.hecua.org/mod/resource/view.php?id=417> Foundation
* Resource <http://courses.hecua.org/theme/chameleon/pix/f/word.gif>
Incorporating experiential and intercultural
<http://courses.hecua.org/mod/resource/view.php?id=421> learning, a
checklist
* Resource <http://courses.hecua.org/theme/chameleon/pix/f/pdf.gif>
Questions from two frameworks on course
<http://courses.hecua.org/mod/resource/view.php?id=432> design
<http://courses.hecua.org/course/view.php?id=19&topic=2> Show only topic 2
3
Wednesday, June 27th, 11 AM to 9 PM
11:00 AM: Meet at the Community Meeting Room, Cooperativa Mercado Central,
1515 East Lake St., Minneapolis. Between Bloomington Ave. and 15th Ave.
South.
The meeting room is in the basement. The stairs near the little grocery
store La Cosecha lead right to it.
11:00 AM ~12 noon: Discuss yesterday's bus tour and the planning assignment.
Noon: Please buy your lunch at the Mercado Central or somewhere nearby. If
you left something unexplored at Midtown Global Market, that's a five-minute
walk. (Yet the Latino and cooperatively-owned Mercado Central has suffered
in the year since the more glizty MGM has been open.) Learn about the
Mercado, about its vendors, and see some menus here
<http://www.mercadocentral.net/> .
Please bring cash, as most of the merchants do not accept checks and many
would rather not accept credit cards.
Note that the 21 Hop & Shop program mentioned above (see Monday) applies to
vendors at the Mercado Central, too. However, because you will need to get
to and then go home from the West Side of St. Paul later this evening, you
may want to carpool. There is parking in the back; enter from Bloomington
Avenue.
1:00 PM to 4 PM: Arts scholar and activist, on arts, dialogue, engagement,
and the ways a large institution can interact with communities
5:30 PM: Meet at the Jane <http://www.publicwork.org/jas/main_home.html>
Addams School for Democracy, at Humboldt High
<http://humboldtsr.spps.org/%5C> School, 30 East Baker Street, 55107.
Mapquest directions to Humboldt HS are here
<http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?formtype=address&addtohistory=&address
=30%20Baker%20St%20E&city=Saint%20Paul&state=MN&zipcode=55107%2d2966&country
=US&location=UHHLe69zFxiwuE2%2fhd8lNu5SLLntufVoR99MQoFMd1SgfqP0TMv%2bDHuUppF
5rrWmgCsEkwINkI%2bN472cZBxsxTM%2bLeKNd3OwOflbieJ1GxOBd0sz7gb724wXND7nspBqvJk
kjznq792XA57dBGa9Kg%3d%3d> .
* Resource <http://courses.hecua.org/theme/chameleon/pix/f/pdf.gif>
The Art of <http://courses.hecua.org/mod/resource/view.php?id=420> Dialogue
* Resource <http://courses.hecua.org/theme/chameleon/pix/f/pdf.gif>
Workbook on <http://courses.hecua.org/mod/resource/view.php?id=433> Various
Roles in Engagement
* Resource <http://courses.hecua.org/theme/chameleon/pix/f/word.gif>
About <http://courses.hecua.org/mod/resource/view.php?id=422> Voices of
Hope, a book about the Jane Addams School (JAS)
* Resource <http://courses.hecua.org/theme/chameleon/pix/f/pdf.gif>
JAS: <http://courses.hecua.org/mod/resource/view.php?id=423> Democracy from
the Ground Up
* Resource <http://courses.hecua.org/theme/chameleon/pix/f/web.gif>
JAS: Return <http://courses.hecua.org/mod/resource/view.php?id=434> to Ban
Vinai
* Resource <http://courses.hecua.org/theme/chameleon/pix/f/web.gif>
JAS: A Call <http://courses.hecua.org/mod/resource/view.php?id=435> to
Vocation
<http://courses.hecua.org/course/view.php?id=19&topic=3> Show only topic 3
4
Thursday, June 28th, 9:30 AM to 3:30 PM
9:30 AM Meet at the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits, 2314 University Ave.
#20 St. Paul, MN 55114 Click here for map and
<http://www.mncn.org/directions_mcn.htm> directions.
9:30~11:30 AM Discussion of
.Kari/Skelton reading,
.your own projects/course design, and
.connecting community organizations and UST
12:00 noon~1:30 PM: xxx, of the Jane Addams School for Democracy, joins us
for lunch and a debriefing on what we saw and experienced last night.
Lunch: Sandwiches from Acme Deli will be catered in.
2:00~3:30 PM: visit to Listening House, a drop-in center for the homeless
where many UST students have volunteered.
Read and listen to a 2003 MPR story on Listening House here
<http://news.minnesota.publicradio.org/features/2003/12/17_bensonl_listening
/> .
We'll carpool to Listening House, off Main Street in downtown St. Paul. From
University Ave.: go east to Vandalia Street, turn right and go onto the
entrance ramp onto highway 94 East. Take the 10th Street exit. 10th Street
skirts the back of the History Center. Follow 10th Street, take a right on
Main Street,and a left on 9th Street. Park in the lot behind Assumption
Church. Walk back a block or so to 215 9th St W., under the blue awning.
Address is 215 9th St W. St Paul, MN 55102.
* Resource <http://courses.hecua.org/theme/chameleon/pix/f/pdf.gif>
The <http://courses.hecua.org/mod/resource/view.php?id=412> Trustworthiness
of Research
* Resource <http://courses.hecua.org/theme/chameleon/pix/f/html.gif>
Global <http://courses.hecua.org/mod/resource/view.php?id=424> Culture and
the American Cosmos
* Resource <http://courses.hecua.org/theme/chameleon/pix/f/pdf.gif>
Reconceiving <http://courses.hecua.org/mod/resource/view.php?id=425>
Scholarship and Engagement
<http://courses.hecua.org/course/view.php?id=19&topic=4> Show only topic 4
5
Friday, June 29, 9:30 AM to 3:30 PM
9:30 AM: Meet at Powderhorn/Phillips Cultural Wellness Center
<http://www.ppcwc.org/> , 1527 East Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN 55407. The
building is across Bloomington from the Mercado Central. The 1525~27
building houses a Wells Fargo Bank, and that is the most noticeable signage.
Some free and metered parking available on 15th Ave., and in a lot behind
the bank, but be sure to go through the bank lot toward 15th Ave to the lot
for other building tenants. Only park in the row marked for the PPCWC and
other organizations, not in the bank's rows. Cars left more than 20 minutes
in the bank's sections of the lot are sure to be booted.
Or make it simple and plan your trip with Metro
<http://www.metrotransit.org/hopshop/index.asp> Transit and take advantage
of Hop & Shop.
9:30 ~11:30 AM: Neighborhood walking exercise, if weather permits.
12 noon~1:00 PM: You are to bring lunch or purchase lunch in the
neighborhood; we may eat at the Center.
1:30 PM: theory, the production of knowledge, and communities
2:30 PM~3:30 PM: Report back on curriculum planning assignment, wrap up and
introduction/re-introduction to on-campus experts
* Resource <http://courses.hecua.org/theme/chameleon/pix/f/pdf.gif>
Walking <http://courses.hecua.org/mod/resource/view.php?id=426> Exercise
* Resource <http://courses.hecua.org/theme/chameleon/pix/f/web.gif>
Good <http://courses.hecua.org/mod/resource/view.php?id=428> Intentions
* Resource <http://courses.hecua.org/theme/chameleon/pix/f/pdf.gif>
The New <http://courses.hecua.org/mod/resource/view.php?id=429> Work of
(New) Faculty
* Resource <http://courses.hecua.org/theme/chameleon/pix/f/web.gif> U
of MN VP <http://courses.hecua.org/mod/resource/view.php?id=437> Vic
Bloomfield's blog on public engagement describes a visit to the Center and
his thoughts on the differences between the academy and communities
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