Summer Scholars in Residence 2008

Public Lectures Annoucement

Scholar Name: Shirley Steinberg (McGill)

Course Title: CUST 565A (971): Critical Media Studies and Pedagogy

Course Dates/time: July 21 – August 1, Mon-Fri, 9:30-13:00, Scarfe Rm 1211

Course Description: Explores the socio/cultural implications of media studies in pedagogy. Focus on issues of equity and social justice in
media as well as new media/technologies and social theory. Using a cultural studies framework, students will examine
the informal media curriculum and its influences on children and youth.

For more information about the scholar, please visit http://people.mcgill.ca/shirley.steinberg/

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Scholar Name: Patti Lather (Ohio State)

Course Title: CCFI 565B (951): Practicing Transdisciplinarity: Methodology in a Post-Foundational Age

Course Dates/time: July 21 – August 1, Mon-Fri, 10:00-13:00, Social Work-Jack Bell Bldg. Room 12

Course Description: This course will focus on the research, theory and methods involved in transdisciplinary qualitative inquiry, including issues of bridging the humanities and social sciences. Central questions involve distinctions between various approaches, tensions between critical and “post” theories, and parameters of “situated” methodology, particularly quality criteria in post-foundational inquiry.

For more information about the scholar, please visit
http://ehe.osu.edu/epl/people/patricia-lather/index.cfm

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Scholar Name: Carney Strange (Bowling Green State)

Course Title: ADHE 565B (971): Critical Perspectives on Student Development

Course Dates/time: July 7 – 18, Mon-Fri, 8:30-12:30, Ponderosa Annex H, Rm.123

Course Description: The study of student development has become central to graduate programs addressing student affairs in higher education. Through an examination of models of psychosocial and identity development, cognitive-structural theories, and typologies, class participants will focus on the individual student's progression through higher education, with an eye toward implications for the construction of policies and the design of post secondary educational practice. Further consideration will be given to how individual, institutional, and extra-institutional dimensions (e.g., family, society, preparation, situation, institution/program, socioeconomics, and support) impinge upon this process in shaping the goals of student success.

This course is part of the Higher Education Summer Institute.

For more information about the scholar, please visit http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/edhd/hesa/bios/strange.html

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Scholar Name: Aidan Chambers

Course Title: LLED 565B (951): How Writers and Readers Make Meaning in Children’s and Young Adult Literature: The Journey to Consciousness

Course Dates/time: July 7 – 25, Mon-Fri, 8:00-10:30, Ponderosa Annex E, Room 105 Interpretation - the making of meaning - is at the heart of all literary writing and reading. From a child's first wordless picturebook to the most complex of young adult novels and literature from the mainstream is a journey to consciousness. This course will examine that journey from the perspective of both writers and readers, using a few key books - way stations on the journey - and an exhibition of many more that provide examples of a wide variety of meanings made and interpreted. The course will draw on reception theory, the aesthetics of picturebooks, and the poetics of narrative, considered in scene-setting lectures followed by practical workshops and seminars, in which course members and the instructor discover together how meaning is made and how their experience can be applied to the education of children and adolescents. Prior reading of a short list of books, and the presentation of an 'anthology' of three pieces of writing prepared during the three weeks of the course are required.

An end-of-course conference is planned, in which course members will give presentations based on their work.
An optional seminar in Creative Writing of three, drinks-and-sandwiches, evening sessions, one in each week of the course, will be offered. If taken up, attendance at all three sessions is required.

For more information about the scholar, please visit http://www.aidanchambers.co.uk/

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Public Lectures Annoucement:

These one-hour sessions will be of interest to a broad range of people concerned with education. Registration is required for the Book Talk Graduate Student conference (see details below), for all other public lectures, there is no registration process or fee.

Is There Room for Learning on Campus? The Confluence of Purpose and Place in Achieving Educational Goals
Dr. Carney Strange, Wednesday, July 16, 2008 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm Scarfe Room 310

Book Talk: Researching Children's and Young Adults' Literature
Graduate Student Conference at the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, 1961 East Mall, UBC
Dr. Aidan Chambers, Plenary Speaker
Saturday, July 26, 2008 8:30am-4:40pm
This is a free conference, for information please go to: http://lled.educ.ubc.ca/conference/index.htm

Getting Lost: Reading for Differences in Qualitative Research
Dr. Patti Lather, Tuesday, July 29, 2008 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm, Scarfe Room 310

Christotainment: Selling Jesus through Popular Culture
Dr. Shirley Steinberg Thursday, July 31, 2008 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm Scarfe Room 310

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