Wednesday, October 12 - 12:00
Book Talk (bring a bag lunch)
Title
Learning Communities: Reforming Undergraduate Education
Authors
Barbara Leigh Smith; Jean MacGregor; Roberta S. Matthews; and Faith Gabelnick
Authors provide conceptual and practical insights on how to begin, sustain, and improve learning communities. This book outlines the history of learning communities, structures, core practices, assessment approaches and results, the challenge of recruiting, and the process of implementing learning communities.
Tuesday, October 18 - 1:00-3:00
Perspectives on Teaching and Scholarship with Balancing Books: The Problem of Scholarly Publication in the Promotion/Tenure Process
Featured Speaker, Michael Spooner, Director, Utah State University Press
Michael Spooner has been the Director of Utah State University Press since 1993. Formerly the Senior Editor at the National Council of Teachers of English, Michael has authored two dozen refereed articles or chapters and four books for children. He has acquired over 200 scholarly books in his publishing career.
Tuesday, October 25 - 12:30
Book Talk (bring a bag lunch)
Title
Teaching as Community Property: Essays on Higher Education
Editors
Lee S. Shulman and Pat Hutchings
This is a collection of essays written since 1987, which serves as an active guide to encourage faculty to reinvent and commit to the development of new teaching models and possibilities in the area of higher education.
Wednesday, November 9 - 12:00
Book Talk (bring a bag lunch)
Title
The Power of Critical Theory: Liberating Adult Learning and Teaching
Author
Stephen D. Brookfield
In this book, Brookfield suggests that critical thinking is an inherently political process. Critical theory allows us to learn to challenge ideologies, unmask power, overcome alienation, learn liberation, reclaim reason, and practice democracy.
Thursday, November 17 -12:30
Book Talk (bring a bag lunch)
Title
Expanding the Boundaries of Transformative Learning: Essays on the Theory and Praxis of Transformative Learning
Editors
Edmund O’Sullivan, Amish Morrel, and Mary Ann O’Connor
The editors and writers of this volume challenge transformative learning in significant ways. They critique theoreticians who have attempted to describe the nature of transformative learning without regard to the content of transformative learning. In contrast, the editors and writers of this book argue the importance of content for transformative learning, to educators as practitioners and discuss transformative education from that perspective.
Wednesday, November 30 - 12:00
Book Talk (bring a bag lunch)
Title
The Miner’s Canary: Enlisting Race, Resisting Power, transforming Democracy
Authors
Lani Guinier and Gerald Torres
This book argues against the ‘color-blind’ approach to understanding race. By failing to acknowledge racial differences, we fail to prepare people for a world in which racial differences matter. However by limiting race to a category, we conflate many different spheres of racial meaning.
