The Heart of Higher Education:A Call to Renewal is an excellent text. I would also recommend Parker Palmer's, The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life.
This past July, we held a workshop titled, "Contemplative Environmental Studies: Pedagogy for Self and Planet," in New Mexico that focused on how to deepen the teaching experience. Twenty-five professors came together to reflect on why and how we teach environmental challenges, and explored the place of contemplative practices as forms of inquiry and pedagogy. We'll be offering the workshop again next summer at the Lama Foundation. Check out: http://www.american.edu/sis/gep/Contemplative-Environmental-Studies-Workshop.cfm Best, Paul Professor Paul Wapner Global Environmental Politics Program School of International Service American University 4400 Massachusetts Avenue, NW Washington DC 20016 (202) 885-1647 From: Elizabeth Allison <elizabeth.alli...@aya.yale.edu> To: Lisa Dilling <lisa.dill...@colorado.edu>, lit...@u.washington.edu Cc: GEP List <gep-ed@googlegroups.com> Date: 08/07/2012 12:56 AM Subject: Re: [gep-ed] The purpose of college teaching and how to achieve it Sent by: gep-ed@googlegroups.com Arthur Zajonc and Parker Palmer: The Heart of Higher Education:A Call to Renewal takes an inspiring, values-based approach to the purpose of higher ed. Elizabeth Allison CIIS --- On Mon, 8/6/12, Karen T Litfin <lit...@u.washington.edu> wrote: From: Karen T Litfin <lit...@u.washington.edu> Subject: Re: [gep-ed] The purpose of college teaching and how to achieve it To: "Lisa Dilling" <lisa.dill...@colorado.edu> Cc: "GEP List" <gep-ed@googlegroups.com> Date: Monday, August 6, 2012, 4:48 PM Hi Lisa, Highly recommended and also relevant to global environmental politics: Chris Uhl, Teaching As If Life Matters (Johns Hopkins, 2011). Chris teaches Environmental Studies at Penn State. http://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/ecom/MasterServlet/SearchHandler http://www.amazon.com/Teaching-Life-Matters-Promise-Education/dp/1421400391/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1344286075&sr=8-1&keywords=uhl+teaching Enjoy! Karen Litfin University of Washington On Mon, 6 Aug 2012, Lisa Dilling wrote: > Hi everyone,I am interested in finding books that have been inspirational to others about what the goals of > college-level teaching are, and how to best achieve those goals. There has been a lot of debate recently on whether > universities are serving undergraduates well (e.g. "Academically Adrift"), whether to emphasize content or critical > thinking skills, whether we should be entertainers or demand rigor, and how to best judge educational outcomes. > What I am looking for here is books from writers who lay out the case for what inspires them to teach at the > college level, and how to view our role as professors, written from more of the personal and experiential side > rather than only laying out research findings. > > Thanks in advance for any good reading suggestions! If you send them directly to me I can compile a list and > resend. > best, > Lisa > > > --Lisa Dilling, Ph.D. > Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies > Center for Science and Technology Policy Research/CIRES > University of Colorado > 1333 Grandview Ave, Campus Box 488 > Boulder, Colorado 80309-0488 > Phone: (303) 735-3678; Fax: 303-735-1576 > Email: ldill...@colorado.edu > webpage: http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/about_us/meet_us/lisa_dilling/ > > >
