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"Hailing the Whole Student in a Fragmented Academy"

Event Type
Seminar/Symposium
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Panel Discussion at the Playful by Design symposium
Location
Armory 148
Date
Apr 5, 2019   9:00 am  
Speaker
Dr. Leon Liebenberg and Professor Judith Pintar (Moderator: Professor Dan Steward) The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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MechSE Seminars

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Judith Pintar and Leon Liebenberg will share their experiences with playful pedagogies that simultaneously engage students in literature, engineering, systems-thinking, graphics, coding, design-thinking, role-playing, and meta-cognition. Their examples will prompt a larger discussion of the ways we teachers may guide our students through learning that challenges and rewards the whole person, whilst being enjoyable. Panel is co-sponsored by the LAS Teaching Academy.

Higher education today shows many fractures and fissures, and we sometimes feel isolated in our research, our service, and our teaching. Our students are not – at least when they start college – creatures of the silos that so many of us call home. And many of us feel called to keep our students curious and broad-minded, to cultivate the whole person as we design courses and activities in which students are personally invested. The episodic fads and fashions for inter-disciplinary research help to address the problem of a fragmented academy, but there is much that we can do – for our students and ourselves – in our teaching, too. Trespassing and collaborating across diverse disciplines, remixing lessons and materials from all over the university, desegregating reason and emotion, we can call the whole student to the learning experience – and hopefully find the whole teacher there as well. Playful pedagogy, with its resources of emotion and reason, indeed attempts to express intuitive wholeness. The panel presentations will serve as a point of departure for the audience to reflect upon the "playful" ways that they can (and sometimes do) disrupt and undermine many of the false dichotomies and invidious comparisons that plague the academy and isolate us from one another.

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