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Diversity and the Search for Meaning
Proposal abstract :
Mount Mary University theology and philosophy faculty will engage in sustained and comprehensive faculty development with a goal of fully re-conceptualizing "Search for Meaning," a team-taught theology and philosophy course that serves as the center of our core curriculum. As an urban, Catholic, women’s university with an increasingly diverse student population and a comparatively non-diverse faculty, we are keenly aware of the need for faculty development to connect our pedagogical approaches more directly to our students’ lives, experiences, and perspectives. We seek to reconceive the "Search for Meaning" course for our diverse population of students by engaging in faculty development regarding pedagogical methods that promote openness to diversity and a trauma-sensitive learning environment; acquiring new pedagogical skills for helping our students learn to listen attentively and speak empathetically; and creating a forum to promote sustained conversation and collaboration between faculty regarding pedagogical and experiences.
Learning Abstract :
Mount Mary University theology and philosophy faculty engaged in sustained and comprehensive faculty development with a goal of fully re-conceptualizing "Search for Meaning," a team-taught theology and philosophy course that serves as the center of our core curriculum. Within a two-year span, the Search for Meaning faculty convened for a three-semester bi-weekly reading group, two intensive retreats, and two workshops. During the final semester, in-depth workshops were offered to University faculty to share the insights gained from the efforts to integrate what faculty learned from the grant activities. The sustained conversation centered on promoting diverse perspectives in the classroom, clarifying the assessment goals for the course, and creating a joint theology and philosophy syllabus that clearly states the purpose and goals of the Search for Meaning.
Mount Mary University theology and philosophy faculty will engage in sustained and comprehensive faculty development with a goal of fully re-conceptualizing "Search for Meaning," a team-taught theology and philosophy course that serves as the center of our core curriculum. As an urban, Catholic, women’s university with an increasingly diverse student population and a comparatively non-diverse faculty, we are keenly aware of the need for faculty development to connect our pedagogical approaches more directly to our students’ lives, experiences, and perspectives. We seek to reconceive the "Search for Meaning" course for our diverse population of students by engaging in faculty development regarding pedagogical methods that promote openness to diversity and a trauma-sensitive learning environment; acquiring new pedagogical skills for helping our students learn to listen attentively and speak empathetically; and creating a forum to promote sustained conversation and collaboration between faculty regarding pedagogical and experiences.
Learning Abstract :
Mount Mary University theology and philosophy faculty engaged in sustained and comprehensive faculty development with a goal of fully re-conceptualizing "Search for Meaning," a team-taught theology and philosophy course that serves as the center of our core curriculum. Within a two-year span, the Search for Meaning faculty convened for a three-semester bi-weekly reading group, two intensive retreats, and two workshops. During the final semester, in-depth workshops were offered to University faculty to share the insights gained from the efforts to integrate what faculty learned from the grant activities. The sustained conversation centered on promoting diverse perspectives in the classroom, clarifying the assessment goals for the course, and creating a joint theology and philosophy syllabus that clearly states the purpose and goals of the Search for Meaning.