This document discusses engaging students in education. It argues that education is a community affair where teachers present information to students and reconsider based on student feedback. It emphasizes creating a safe learning environment with freedom, passion, curiosity and purpose. It also discusses making thinking visible by expressing ideas externally, managing ideas by capturing, sharing, manipulating and carrying ideas forward, and adopting a pedagogy of freedom where individual and community narratives of learning are made visible while maintaining individual and institutional voices.

1. ENGAGING THE STUDENT
PAUL LESLIE
20 JULY, 2017
Education is a Community Affair

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Approach to Teaching and Learning
Philosophy
of Education
Making
Thinking
Visible
Idea
Management
Pedagogy of
Freedom
Dr. Paul Leslie - Education is a community affair February 16th, 2016

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Philosophy of Teaching and Learning
 Education is a Community Affair
Freire (1996) states that the truly reflective and liberated
educator,
“presents the information to the students for their
consideration, reconsiders her own considerations as
the students express their own” (p. 62).

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Why are you doing this to me?
Why am I
here?
What do I
need to be
successful?
What do I
take away?
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Safety
• To expose our
thoughts
• To challenge others
• ‘Teaching Presence’
Freedom
• Passion
• Curiosity
• Purpose
• Engagement
Learning Environment
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 Make our thinking visible
 Take our ideas out of our
heads and put them on
‘paper’
 Ideas as discrete objects
“THE MEDIUM IS
THE MESSAGE”
-McLuhan, 1964
Thinking
• Concepts
• subjects
Medium
• Tools
• activities
Narrative
of
Learning
Making Thinking Visible

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Idea Management
Ideas
Capture
from group
work
Share from
personal
work
Manipulate
and reflect
Reconfigure
and
transform
Carry
forward
and
integrate
29 July 2016Dr. Paul Leslie - WSU Office of the PVC Learning Transformations

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The Context
Individual
effort
• Preparing for
class
• Making notes
Community
effort
• Group work
• Social
construction
Idea creation
• Medium is the
message
• Narratives of
learning
• Making thinking
visible
Idea
Management
• Preserve for
reflection
• Articulation
• learning
29 July 2016Dr. Paul Leslie - WSU Office of the PVC Learning Transformations

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The Problem
Ideas
Capture
from group
work
Share from
personal
work
Manipulate
and reflect
Reconfigure
and
transform
Carry
forward and
integrate
Where are they?
29 July 2016Dr. Paul Leslie - WSU Office of the PVC Learning Transformations

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Pedagogy of Freedom
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 Narratives to support Teaching and Learning
Content
Knowledge
Sciences &
Technology
English
Math
History
&
Geography
Pedagogic
Knowledge
Make Narratives of
Learning Visible
Maintain individual
voice in community
settings
Pedagogic Content
Knowledge
Learn to present own
narratives of learning to
students
Maintain institutional
voice