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Editorial: Volume 3(2)
Get PDFThis fifth issue of Imagining SoTL consists of papers based on presentations at the 2022 Symposium for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, with a theme of “A Decade of Imagining SoTL: Looking Back, Looking Ahead,” our first in-person conference since the COVID-19 pandemic. It was good to be together. This issue follows our recent Call and Response issue (see Volume 3(1)). Here, we present the articles submitted in response to our more conventional call for contributors to develop their Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) presentations from the conference
« Quelque chose d’inaudible à propos d’un prophète et d’un hamster » : le terrorisme à la Mathias Énard
Get PDFDans Fanaticism: The Uses of an Idea (2010), Alberto Toscano dénonce la tendance actuelle à qualifier de « fanatique » tout comportement extrémiste, voire d’entêtement sur des questions sociales. Notre époque semble résolue à « écraser l’infâme », à poursuivre le noble combat entamé au XVIII e siècle contre l’intolérance, croisade toutefois bancale car fondée sur une vision réductrice que l’Occident se fait du danger qui la guette. Aveuglée par ce que Slavoj Žižek nomme la violence visible et subjective – par exemple celle d’un attentat à la bombe –, l’époque contemporaine négligerait de considérer la violence systémique, conséquence désastreuse du fonctionnement de nos systèmes économiques et politiques, ceux-là en grande partie, comme le rappelle Toscano, hérités des Lumières. Ce sont ces forces sournoises mais dominantes que Mathias Énard démasque dans son Bréviaire des artificiers (2007), récit autodérisoire de 113 pages qui cherche, dans un concentré de références littéraires et politiques évoquant autant Virgile, Pascal, Hugo et Flaubert que Proudhon, Mao, Ben Laden et Kadhafi, à « éveiller les masses » abruties par la télévision et les actualités qui tendent à laisser penser que la principale menace à la paix séculaire de notre société s’incarne dans la figure du kamikaze ou du tueur de masse. Récupérant l’esthétique d’un conte voltairien et la dialectique maître-esclave hégélienne, et rappelant sur le ton érudico-ironique propre à Énard la genèse des fanatismes contemporains, ce « manuel de terrorisme à l’usage des débutants » contribue, par un volte-face que seul peut-être le permet une œuvre littéraire, non pas à parfaire la formation de l’individu subversif cherchant à « secouer le joug ancillaire », mais à décrire le climat global de peur et d’insécurité engendré par un terrorisme plus insidieux qu’explosif et à enseigner, à ceux susceptibles d’en bénéficier, les moyens de perpétuer ce monde bâti sur les artifices
On Pop-Up Poetry, Old School Typewriters and Feeling Valued
Get PDFThis piece is a creative reflection on my experience with pop-up poetry at the 2022 Mokakiiks SoTL Symposium in Banff
Editorial: Call and Response Issue
Get PDFThis issue represents a bit of an experiment. Our last Symposium for SoTL, in November 2022, seemed particularly thought-provoking and we were proud of the lively community and conversations so evident throughout the conference. We decided that we weren’t quite ready to let these conversations go, and invited each keynote speaker to provide an invited piece for this issue. We then created a call for proposals inviting conference attendees to respond to the keynotes, and in this issue are two pieces that do just that. In each case, the authors take the ideas they understood from one of the keynotes and develop and relate them to their own ideas and contexts. A signature element of our Symposium has become pop-up poetry. As part of this Call and Response issue, we also offer two essays written by the poets, Richard Harrison and Beth Everest, as well as two responses to the experience. We hope you enjoy reading this issue as much as we enjoyed putting it together. It seems a perfect segue into our next Symposium, happening in just a few week’s time, where we will continue the conversation
I Am Smitten by Her Smile
Get PDFIn this personal call-and-response piece, inspired by a poem made through a dialogue with a poet at the Pop-Up Poetry session at the symposium in Banff, I explore the transformative power of Pop-Up Poetry and new encounters made. By taking the reader through the poem, I illuminate how human qualities are essential for personal growth and “Bildung.” The Pop-Up Poetry broke the confines of academic discourse, fostering vulnerability and introspection. Integrating personal poetry into conferences might empower individuals to transcend the academic race. Through this journey of self-discovery, I found that Pop-Up Poetry and new friendships are one possible key to unlocking new paths of personal and professional enlightenment, nurturing our humanity, and fostering collective growth in the academic world
Designing Effective Experiential Curriculum: The Experiential Learning Map
Get PDFDesigning experiential student exercises or course modules can be a daunting task for faculty members. Often, not knowing where to begin is a barrier that causes instructors to avoid developing meaningful, high-impact student exercises grounded in experience. Yet, we know that these can be incredibly powerful and transformative pedagogies.
The Experiential Learning Map (ELM) is a curricular planning tool that instructors, learning consultants, or students can use to storyboard and develop an experiential lesson. Modelled after best practices in business model ideation, and informed by research about experiential learning, the ELM provides instructors with an easy-to-use curriculum planning tool. The ELM is designed to be flexible. Instructors can scale the pedagogy from a single-class interaction to a multi-session pedagogical arc. The ELM\u27s value is that it provides instructors with a simple, iterative planning tool that can be used to scope and scale a learning experience