Volume 1, Issue 2, October 2007 - Forging our Own Path

Transformative Dialogues: teaching and learning eJournal

Second Issue of Transformative Dialogues - TD.1.2 - October, 2007

Transformative Dialogues is a forum for conversations intended to foster the improvement of adult teaching and learning. TD facilitates the multi-disciplinary exchange of ideas, actions, and results of innovative and professional practice in the scholarship of teaching and learning. These conversations are intended to span a wide range of reflections on the processes of teaching and learning ranging from the scholarly to scholarship. Reflections and understandings shared are focused on improving student and faculty learning, and critical thought processes in their current and future life long learning. We understand that scholarship may play out differently in different disciplines, but the basic principles should be consistent (Boyer, 1992).

Our journal adopts the principle that strategies, techniques and methods of teaching and learning transcend the boundaries of specific subject fields. We welcome relevant contributions from diverse settings such as academia, vocational training, continuing professional development, workplace learning, selected commercial exemplars, and social networking via communications technologies.

This edition is a publication of selected proceedings from Forging our Own Path symposium on teaching and learning held at Kwantlen University College on August 23, 2007. We hope that you find value in these scholarly works.

Program

Program for the Forging our Own Path Symposium

Opening Remarks

Gordon Lee, VP, Strategic Services,
Kwantlen University College

Keynote Panel

What We Value about the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

This panel dialogue explored the question of what we value about the scholarship of teaching and learning and how this impacts all of us and our students.