Shatter the Glassy Stare: Implementing Experiential Learning in Higher Education: A Companion Piece to Place as Text: Approaches to Active Learning

Authors

• Peter A. Machonis, Florida International University

Date of this Version

2008

Document Type

Book

Comments

© Copyright 2008 by National Collegiate Honors Council

Abstract

CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Foreword by Bernice Braid
Semesters Institute Facilitators
2007–2008 Honors Semester Committee Members

Introduction
Introduction to City as Text™ and Overview of Contents
Joy Ochs, You’re not Typical Professors, Are You?

CHAPTER 1: CAMPUS AS TEXT
Anita R. Guynn, Place as Text: Town and Gown
Mary Lou Pfeiffer, From Cigarette Butts to the “Stacks” and Beyond
Joy Ochs, Campus as Text: a Faculty Workshop

CHAPTER 2: LOCAL NEIGHBORHOODS
Janice Allen, The Lower Ninth Ward: First Impressions, Final Realizations, Future Plans
Peter A. Machonis, Little Haiti as Text

CHAPTER 3: TRAVEL COURSES
Joy Ochs, Adapting an Honors Pedagogy to a General Studies Travel Course .
Rick Ostrander, The Adopt-a-Village Project

CHAPTER 4: SCIENCE-RELATED APPLICATIONS
Devon L. Graham, Turning Over a New Leaf
Kevin E. Bonine, Gourmet to Galapagos: Experiential Learning in the Sciences

CHAPTER 5: MYTHOS, LOGOS, ETHOS WRITING EXERCISE
Kathy A. Lyon, Crete Faculty Institute: A Change in Pedagogical Style
John Kandl, Crossroads and Beyond
Stephen J. Nichols, Do You Get the Blues?

CHAPTER 6: PHILOSOPHICAL AND PRACTICAL CONSIDERATIONS
Alan W. Grose, Platonic Thoughts on the Frustrations of Experiential Learning and Teaching: Reflections after the New Orleans Discovery and Recovery Institute
Robert Strikwerda, Experiential Learning and City as Text™: Reflections on Kolb and Kolb

Appendix A: NCHC Faculty Institutes from 1998 to 2007
Appendix B: Template for Institute Design
Appendix C: How to Organize City as Text™
Appendix D: City as Text™ Strategies: Mapping, Observing, Listening, Reflecting
Appendix E: Written Assignments
About the Authors