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Learning: April
16-17, 2009
Barbara Mossberg, Founding Dean of the College of Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences at California State University – Monterey Bay; Director and Professor, Integrated Studies Program; and president emerita of Goddard College; advocates thinking of new ideas on how we educate for the 21st century. Her academic experience includes being a tenured member of the faculty of the University of Oregon, where she won the Ersted Award for Distinguished Teaching, as well as the Danforth Associate and the Mellon Foundation Fellowship and other teaching recognition awards. She has received several Fulbright Awards, including the Bicentennial Chair of American Studies at the University of Helsinki, the American Seminar at the University of Rome, and the Senior Fulbright Distinguished Lectureship. Her scholarship awards include Choice’s Outstanding Academic Book for her interdisciplinary study of Emily Dickinson (When a Writer Is a Daughter), and grants from the American Council of Learned Societies and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Dr. Mossberg’s academic positions have included co-founder and co-director of the American Studies program at the University of Oregon, Associate Provost and Director of External Relations at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, and Special Advisor to the President and Interim Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at National University. She has been a consultant and featured speaker for hundreds of colleges and universities, organizations, conferences, especially on the subject of global leadership for change and diversity for learning communities. For several years, she has served as Senior Fellow at the American Council on Education Office of Women in Higher Education and as Founding Director of its think tank, the Mary Robertson Smith Council of Scholars (‘thinking about difference differently’). Dr. Mossberg has been a keynote speaker for the international Lilly Conference and has presented at national Lilly Conferences. Genius as an Interdisciplinary Learning Outcome: Curricular Strategies Based on Educational Biographies, Real-World Exemplars for Civic Leadership and Social and Environmental Progress Examining genius as a learning experience open to everyone, rather than an attribute that a limited number of people have, the purpose of this session is to motivate foundational general education courses that are interdisciplinary and integrative. We will discuss and develop a set of examples drawn from people who have made a positive difference in our world, looking at what we can learn from their own education that nourished and developed their abilities to impact our world. Based on our understanding of this educational background, we will reflect on what opportunities today’s students have to bring together diverse ways of knowing that they are exposed to in the general education curriculum. If these figures’ success is “proof of the pudding,” we can look at what ingredients and processes result in the pudding, and see how can be provide our students the same kinds of experiences to develop their own genius. |
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