Dale Lackeyram: Maintaining Learner Conflict through Dialogue: The Transformative Opportunities of Academic Support Services
Of interest to faculty/instructors, academic staff/administrators, educational, instructional and/or curriculum developers, undergraduate and graduate students, and community service learning practitioners, this session will present a theory of dialogue that maintains learner conflict through the development and implementation of academic support services and will (attempt to) answer the question, ?How do we create and maintain this level of dialogue?? Based on Paolo Freire and Moacir Gadotti?s notions of dialogue and conflict pedagogy, we will argue that since conflict cannot occur without dialogical encounters, and since transformation cannot occur without conflict, learner transformation requires a dialogue that maintains learner conflict.
In this session, participants will gain an understanding of why this type of dialogue is desirable and important, and how this type of dialogue can be implemented and encouraged through student learning support services such as individual and/or group consultations and academic programming. Experiences and data from on-going programming currently offered by the Learning Commons at the University of Guelph will be discussed as supporting evidence. Participants will have the opportunity to engage with the current framework for delivery of supplementary, integrative, and embedded programming, simulate the process of conceptualizing these services, and learn how they are currently being applied and utilized.
In this session, participants will gain an understanding of why this type of dialogue is desirable and important, and how this type of dialogue can be implemented and encouraged through student learning support services such as individual and/or group consultations and academic programming. Experiences and data from on-going programming currently offered by the Learning Commons at the University of Guelph will be discussed as supporting evidence. Participants will have the opportunity to engage with the current framework for delivery of supplementary, integrative, and embedded programming, simulate the process of conceptualizing these services, and learn how they are currently being applied and utilized.
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