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City As Text

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Brock Experiences are immersive courses that focus on important, unresolved civic issues in an appropriate setting within the United States. The teaching and learning are both place-based and interdisciplinary, and students are engaged in rich dialog, meaningful collaboration, and authentic civil discourse.

For more information, please visit the Brock Experience Webpage

Recommended Readings

Mezirow, J. (1996). Contemporary Paradigms of Learning. Adult Education Quarterly. 46(3), 158-72 - Available in print from Greenwood Library.

Mezirow, J. (1997). Transformative learning: Theory to practice. New Directions For Adult & Continuing Education, 1997(74), 5.
Place As Text - Approaches to Active Learning
Bernice Braid, Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus
Ada Long, University of Alabama at Birmingham
The National Collegiate Honors Council., 2000
Shatter the Glassy Stare: Implementing Experiential Learning in Higher Education -- A Companion Piece to Place as Text: Approaches to Active Learning
Peter A. Machonis, Florida International University
National Collegiate Honors Council, 2008. ebook
An Update to Transformational Learning
Lisa M. Baumgartner, Buffalo State College
New Directions for Adult & Continuing Education, March 1, 2001
Writing on Your Feet: Reflective Practices in City As Text
Ada Long, University of Alabama - Birmingham
National Collegiate Honors Council Monograph Series, 2014

Contemporary Theories of Learning by Knud Illeris (Editor)
ISBN: 9780415473446
Publication Date: 2009-01-14
Chapter 3: What "Form" Transforms: a constructive-developmental approach to transformative learning, by Robert Kegan
Transformative Dimensions of Adult Learning by Jack Mezirow
ISBN: 9781555423391
Publication Date: 1991-05-07
Transformative Dimensions of Adult Learning describes the dynamics of how adults learn--and how their perceptions are transformed by learning--as a framework for formulating educational theory and practice. It presents an in-depth analysis of the ways in which adults learn, how they make meaning of the learning experience, and how their lives can be transformed by it.
Understanding and Promoting Transformative Learning by Patricia Cranton
ISBN: 9780787900175
Publication Date: 1994-10-04
Perceptive, provocative, and lucid...Patricia Cranton's clear and careful analysis and her down-to-earth examples of transformative learning concepts move my work significantly closer to the practitioner. Highly recommAnded! --Jack Mezirow, professor emeritus of adult education, Teachers College, Columbia University