The Role of an Active Learner
My purpose, when I am teaching, is to engage learners in collaborative processes of knowledge discovery and acquisition. I work from a pragmatic/socio-cultural perspective, informed by distributed network theory and ecologies of cognition. In approaching curriculum design, I strive to be attentive, first, to the construction of the role the learner will play in the learning activities, and then construction of the role I will play to facilitate that learning process. I include digital technologies in the learning processes, when I sense they will enrich, enhance or enable the learners in their growth and development. I am an artist, in private practice, and believe involvement in arts activities / creative processes, contribute to the formation of an active learner. Thus my teaching philosophy is informed by three core elements: pragmatic/socio-cultural perspective, digital technologies, and arts activities.
