Abstract
This article discusses the value of experiential education in the Humanities as a way to foster conscientization in the classroom. It begins by briefly introducing experiential education and its relationship to critical pedagogy, before detailing one way the author employs experiential learning in the classroom through a semester-long, multi-modal, digital project the author calls, “Power Relations: The New York City Experience.”
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Dewey, John. Education and Experience. Simon and Schuster, 1938.
--- My Pedagogic Creed. E.L. Kellogg & Co., 1897.
Estes, Cheryl A. “Promoting Student-Centered Learning in Experitial Education.” Theory & Practice of Experiential Education, edited by Karen Warren, Denise Mitten, and TA Loeffler, Association for Experiential Education, 2008, pp. 244-261.
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Freire, Paulo. Pedagogy of the Oppressed 50th Anniversary Edition, translated by Myra Bergman Ramos, Bloomsbury, 2018.
---The Politics of Education: Culture, Power, and Liberation, translated by Donaldo Macedo, Bergin & Garvey, 1985.
Kolb, David A. Experiential Learning: Experience as the Source of Learning and Development. 2nd ed., Pearson Education, Inc, 2015.
Kolb, David A. and Mary Ann Rainey. “Using Experiential Learning Theory and Learning Styles in Diversity Education.” The Importance of Learning Styles: Understanding the Implications for Learning, Course Design, and Education, edited by Ronald R. Sims and Serbrenia J. Sims, Greenwood Press, 1995, pp. 129-146.
Lewis, Linda H. and Carol J. Williams. “Experiential Learning: Past and Present.” New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, no. 62, Summer 1994, pp. 5-16.
Macedo, Donaldo. Introduction. Pedagogy of the Oppressed 50th Anniversary Edition, by Freire, translated by Myra Bergman Ramos, Bloomsbury, 2018, pp. 1-34.
Moon, Jennifer A. A Handbook of Reflective Learning: Theory and Practice. Routledge Falmer, 2004.
Rankine, Claudia. Citizen, Graywolf Press, 2014.
Shaull, Richard. Foreword to the Original English Edition (1970). Pedagogy of the Oppressed 50th Anniversary Edition, by Freire, translated by Myra Bergman Ramos, Bloomsbury, 2018, pp. 214-219.
Shor, Ira. Empowering Education: Critical Teaching for Social Change. University of Chicago Press, 1992.
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