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 and a colleague at work at Northeastern.
 
-Shwen and Jim
 
 
For several years, I (Jim) have been [...]

• 3 Comments

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 University and 10 of them as Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, I [...]

• 3 Comments

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 graduation requirement. So, we figured it was worth a blog post to bring you a [...]

• 1 Comment

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 intelligence.  But here we wonder if that concept of the “other lobe” should be broadened [...]

• 5 Comments

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 theme in experiential learning and in the various other postings in this blog.  That initial [...]

• 1 Comment

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 it.
 
The article is a good read and covers an important topic discussing various programs and curricula that [...]

• 2 Comments

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 that below and I (Jim) think it reveals an important element [...]

• 3 Comments

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 out of Jim’s experience at the conference. The conference got a [...]

• 2 Comments

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.  Not only do we feel it is necessary in a Web 2.0 world of social [...]

• 5 Comments

We continue here, and for a while, to post pieces written by one of us and students at Northeastern University. This one deals with the moment when a student working outside the classroom (here in a biology lab) realizes that they are fufilling real responsibilities.  Enjoy and tell us what you think.
- Jim and Shwen.
The Moment of Conversion:
Where Experiential Education Begins To Take [...]

• 2 Comments