How To Read This Book Thematically
This book, like many electronic collections– and like a lot of Open Educational Resources– does not have to be consumed linearly from start to finish. We encourage you to skip around and read according to your own preferences. For those interested in particular themes generated by our focus on Cluster Learning and our progression through the Cluster Pedagogy Learning Community’s emergent syllabus, you may find the following taxonomies helpful as you explore this project.
There are many more essays in this collection than are listed below, but this may be a starting point for those who want to focus on a more targeted way on some of the recurring themes we explored.
Building Community
- A Network to Call On (Birx)
- Partnerships and Possibilities: A Student’s Experience (Chretien)
- Leaving With My Own List (Gaudette)
- Inclusion & Belonging (Cantor)
- A Staff Learning Community (Leighton)
- Hope in Community (LeBlanc)
Project-Based Learning
- Open up and say “PBL” (Villamagna)
- An Adventure of Our Own (Theriault)
- A Current State of Evolution (Coykendall)
Interdisciplinarity & Collaboration
- Slowing Down, Making Space (Goode)
- Guideposts (O’Donnell)
- Inside & Outside of the Classroom (Blasco)
- Bridging Worlds With Habits of Mind (Hurley)
Open Education
- Pedagogy and Social Justice (Cornish)
- The Open Pluriverse (Tilghman)
- A New Mindset, An Open Approach (Harrington)
- “Just Look For Openings” (Elvey)
- Filling In the Remainder (Lappie)
- Focusing on Process (Williams)
- An “Aha!” Moment (Noel)
- Stark Realities (Lyons)
- Mutual Humanness in Academia (Roberts)
Taking Risks
- Teaching the Whole Student: A Work in Progress (Howarth)
- Teacher = Student: A Communicative Property (Benedetti)
- The Pedagogues Our Students Deserve (Livingstone)
- Healing, Engaging, and Taking Risks (Holba)
- The Gestalt of Teaching (Parsons)
- Particularly Complex Work (Johnston)
Institutional Transformation
- Pasts, Presents, Futures (Krueckeberg)
- Radical Kindness (Stelmok)
- Values Horizon (Wixson)
- OPENly Optimistic: My experience with the CPLC (Davidson)
- How do we want to learn? What do we want to learn? (Weber)
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