Facilitated Learning Spaces for Intentional Belonging in Post-Secondary Education - Bridging the Chasm Dividing Education and Community
Keywords:
placemaking, dialogic education, belonging, transformative learningAbstract
In a competitive, managerial based post-secondary educational environment based on reactivity, the authors of this article believe that the sense of community is hindered. As complex issues continue to emerge on college and university campuses, the reactionary approaches serve to diminish the transformational and humanizing purposes of learning in educational settings. The authors, both employees at a community college, reflect on their own recent graduate-level education, as well as their roles at their college as they explore this threat to community development. The concepts surrounding the dialogical method, transformative learning, placemaking, and use of self are explored to tune into these larger purposes of post-secondary learning. Principles of community development are then used to integrate these theories into a framework that promotes facilitated learning spaces in colleges and universities towards the goal of engaging belonging for students, faculty, staff, and administration.
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