Open AccessDebate, Deliberation, Design, and Delivery: Deciding (Whether or) Not to Go by the Book
Author(s) -
Michele Pinard,
Gina Marie Bilardi,
Donna Cappel,
Kathy Irwin
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
learning landscapes
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1913-5688
DOI - 10.36510/learnland.v6i1.590
Subject(s) - deliberation , creativity , pedagogy , sociology , engineering ethics , mathematics education , psychology , political science , engineering , social psychology , politics , law
This article shares one junior faculty member’s account of how she and her students debated, deliberated about, decided to, and ultimately reshaped a traditional, foundational Principles of Education course in an undergraduate teacher education program. Three former childhood, art, and theater education students highlight their experiences, observing connections between their own and their instructor’s creativity and evolving philosophies of education. Together, they illustrate issues they confronted while reflecting individually and collectively on how and whether to creatively teach and learn, while also being constrained by practical, systemic realities.