ABSTRACTS - Room 215

All sessions take place in Butler-Carlton Hall on the Missouri S&T campus

1-215 // Embodied Teaching: Musical Praxis in Social Justice Education

STANDARD SESSION (45 minutes)

Presenters:
     Logan John - Director of the Center for Faith and Service; Westminster College
     Paul Anderson - University of Missouri; Columbia

Time and Location: 12:15 - 1:00 p.m.; Room 215

MODE: Blended (Face-to-Face Presenter + Online/Face-to-Face Attendees)

Inspired by 200 years of American music, this session explores the ways Spirituals, Blues, and Protest Songs can enhance social justice education. Drawing on Freire's praxis pedagogy and Merleau-Ponty's philosophy of embodiment, this session will engage, challenge, and inspire social justice educators to incorporate singing, body movement, and reflection in their pedagogical tool set.

2-215 // Embracing Uncertainty in Class

STANDARD SESSION (45 minutes)

Presenters:
     Kirk Wilkins - Missouri Online
     Kris Baranovic - Instructional Design Manager; Missouri Online

Audience: Higher Education

Time and Location: 1:15 - 2:00 p.m.; Room 215

MODE: Blended (Face-to-Face Presenters + Online/Face-to-Face Attendees)

A classroom can be a place of organized information and firm understanding, where every question has an answer and responses can be correct or incorrect. The world outside of class unfortunately doesn't have the same tidiness, and that can distort the teaching as well as student understanding. This session proposes ways of introducing the messiness and uncertainty of a discipline into the classroom.

3-215 // Seeing Students as Persons-In-Progress

STANDARD SESSION (45 minutes)

Presenters: 
     Kris Baranovic - Missouri Online
     Dr. Jana Gerard - Southeast Missouri State University
     Catt Friel - Missouri Online

Audience: Higher Education

Time and Location: 2:15 - 3:00 p.m.; Room 215

MODE: Blended (Face-to-Face Presenters + Online/Face-to-Face Attendees)

Sometimes we get so distracted by teaching content and assessing learning we forget students have lives outside and around our classes. This session explores blurring the lines between students' classroom lives and regular lives, leveraging their experiences to create learning situations.