Here is another post that comes out of Jim’s conversations with Northeastern students. It is touching on social media, something Shwen writes about in his blog, Med 2.0. -Jim and Shwen Social Media, Warmth, and “Other … Continued
As we continue with this blog, we find ourselves drawn to other topics outside experiential education, but ones that seem to utilize the same principles as we have been writing about. Here is one on leadership that developed between Jim … Continued
I wanted this blog to focus on ideas about experiential education and not be about me. But I have to note for those of you who do not already know, that after 23 years of being a professor at Northeastern … Continued
Northeastern University is well known for its experiential education programs, particularly cooperative education. But it has only been recently that experiential education was made a part of the core curriculum in the College of Arts and Sciences and therefore a … Continued
In this blog, we have thought of the “other lobe of the brain” as the limbic system, the emotional system that made logical decisions about meaning and value to accompany the facts-and-theories type of logic that some have called academic … Continued
Some time ago, Northeastern Professors Rick Porter and Jim Stellar, job shadowed a student, Amanda Marsden, on e-mail and later those three wrote a paper (posted below on 2/17/09) that points to the value of reflection in experiential learning, a frequent … Continued
The “Other Lobe” and Emotional Intelligence An article appears in today’s Boston Globe by Drake Bennett, “The Other Kind of Smart: Is it Time for Schools to try to Boost Kids’ Emotional Intelligence?” We just had to react to … Continued
Jim asked Ashley Pira, a freshman behavioral neuroscience major at Northeastern who has managed to get into a laboratory, to write a piece on how students and professors connect and to do it from a student view. You will find … Continued
Last Thursday and Friday, one of us (Jim) attended a very interesting 2 day conference for 32 people at Clark University on the topic of Liberal Education and Effective Practice. We thought that this week we would make our post … Continued
This post is the third in a series co-authored by Jim and students. We wanted to give a flavor of what it is like to think with students as well as just have them take and give feedback on programs. … Continued