Edumeasure: Assessing Liberal Arts Education

In this episode, I follow up on my thoughts from the previous episode, Mistakes and Values.  I explore how to implement creative learning in the transformative classroom with the explicit use of mistakes analysis, sharing how I applied the insights of writers Neil Postman and Kathryn Schulz for the benefit of both teachers and learners.

Edumeasure: Assessing Liberal Arts Education

In this episode we examine the obstacles to creative engagement with the learning potential of mistakes in the classroom, focusing on the challenges for teachers as professionals.  We use the experiences of the host to illustrate some of these challenges. Part One of a two-part episode on Mistakes and Values.

Edumeasure: Assessing Liberal Arts Education

As we begin the second season of Edumeasure, we thought we would give our listeners some idea of what we learned from the first season, and where we plan to go now.

Edumeasure: Assessing Liberal Arts Education

What should an extraordinary education look like from the perspective of a college president? Dr Jeff Abernathy, President of Alma College, offers his vision of what a liberal arts education can and should do to to transform student learning, relying on his experience as a Professor, a Dean, a Provost. and a College President over a 40-year career in higher education.

Edumeasure: Assessing Liberal Arts Education

This episode is a continuation of Episode Eleven, Part Two of my interview with three recent college graduates reflecting on their college educations.

Edumeasure: Assessing Liberal Arts Education

In today's episode we interview Dr. Larry Zettler, a professor of Biology at Illinois College. We discuss how the transformational classroom explores the value of unmediated experiences in support of intensive learning and how this kind of educational experience can have a powerful impact on the students' relationships with the world around them.

Edumeasure: Assessing Liberal Arts Education

Dr. Clayton Spencer looks at how transformational teaching and learning can be promoted in the sciences, offering insights from nearly three decades of teaching chemistry to undergraduates.  He reflects on his experiences navigating a creative passage between the requirements of content knowledge and the practice of liberal arts values.

Edumeasure: Assessing Liberal Arts Education

In this episode, I discuss with Dr. Dane Wendell how transformational teaching and learning develop in his political science classrooms.

Edumeasure: Assessing Liberal Arts Education

In this episode I'm interviewing a remarkable teacher of writing, Dr. Cynthia Cochran, who shares the insights of four decades as a writing teacher.  Her reflections have relevance for anybody interested in how to transform a skill into a life lesson.

Edumeasure: Assessing Liberal Arts Education

In this episode I reflect upon an important lesson about teaching and learning that was taught to me by a very unusual student.  I look closely at the problem of student engagement, which seems to be an ever more stubborn problem for high schools and colleges across the country.

Edumeasure: Assessing Liberal Arts Education

In this episode Dr. Estabrook interviews a colleague, Dr. Edward Lenert, on his experiences teaching a course on law and media at the University of San Francisco. The discussion revolves around his efforts to develop transformative learning in the classroom– a review of aims, ideals, and pitfalls from his experiences with an innovative first year seminar.

Edumeasure: Assessing Liberal Arts Education

Edumeasure is a new podcast for teachers, students, parents, and others concerned with transforming teaching and learning; a podcast for exploring creative, unconventional responses to current issues in education.  In this episode Dr. Estabrook outlines the key ideas and goals of the podcast for new listeners.

Edumeasure: Assessing Liberal Arts Education