Presentation
“What is an education for? Change and adaptation for a culture of inquiry”
Sister Anne Joachim Moore Lecture: Teaching Learning Network (TLN)
(2020)
Abstract
When you think about your education, what comes to mind? Whether painful or ecstatic, what episodes emerge as particularly resonant? How might such episodes become sources of wisdom in greater self-awareness and accountability? This talk assumes that we – staff and faculty alike – are all educators in the lives of our students. It recognizes that we are each called to respond to the needs of our time and the changing demographics of who our students are, how they learn, and what they need to live full and free lives. It also advocates for a culture of inquiry as a crucial condition for change and adaptation in our ways of knowing. Rooted in a personal narrative of lived experience as a White educator of settler-colonial descent, I offer some responses to the question – What is an education for? – while recognizing that I have much to learn. Ultimately, this talk aims to demonstrate that there can be no substitute for learning in community.
Keywords
- higher education,
- change,
- adaptation,
- inquiry,
- liberal arts
Disciplines
Publication Date
Winter January 28, 2020
Location
St. Catherine University
Citation Information
Amy Hamlin. "“What is an education for? Change and adaptation for a culture of inquiry”" Sister Anne Joachim Moore Lecture: Teaching Learning Network (TLN) (2020) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/akhamlin/22/