Humanizing Learning: My Hopes
I wrote this piece to create a shared grounding resource - my hopes for you as you engage with developing learning goals, objectives, and questions. I really emphasize a holistic approach, one that foregoes compartmentalizing and disconnecting both ourselves and knowledge. As we are in a critical time for education worldwide, critically countering prevailing narratives is necessary as we dream up a future of good education. I hope you read this piece first before diving into the other resources in this collection.
What makes a question worth chasing? What makes an idea worth exploring? How do these learning experiences contribute to a life worth living? These three questions, the first as posed by Angela Stockman, seek to engage a holistic approach to learning where the humanity of our students is at the center. I hope your students seek to engage you when you think about the purpose of your course. Your course exists for reasons that are not only tied to particular curriculum sequencing or a pre-determined career pathway, but also to the development of who your students are to be after the course ends.