A Focus on Place: Co-creative Teaching towards Place and Community-based Learning
A Focus on Place: Co-creative Teaching towards Place and Community-based Learning
Associate Director for Academic Civic Engagement and Scholarship and Lecturer in Ethical Inquiry Emily Oliver redesigned her course with co-instructor Cynthia Gonzalez, in order to connect more deeply to place in the context of “Why Treaties Matter” and ongoing research on race and equity in education in Faribault. Last fall, Oliver and Gonzalez taught “Community-based Learning and Scholarship: Ethics, Practice,” which explored the theory, practice, and ethics of civic engagement. They taught the course again in the Fall of 2021 planning to focus on grounding their material in place for the second iteration.