Pedagogy Workshop

All registered participants are invited to attend the JUHAN Pedagogy Pre-Conference Session (this session will be most relevant for faculty). Dr. Janie Leatherman and Dr. Kathy Nantz (Fairfield University) will be leading this session.

This workshop will engage participants with their idea of humanitarianism to share and develop their personal and professional passions and skills to align with humanitarian studies. The workshop will start out querying everyone what they mean by humanitarianism? How do they see themselves fitting into it? In this context, the workshop presenters will share goals and student learning outcomes for courses in humanitarian action, and share some syllabi using those criteria. Then participants will brainstorm about ideas they have for a course or for developing course modules in their areas of expertise. They will share these ideas with workshop participants for feedback and ideas.

As background for the workshop, Drs. Nantz and Leatherman have provided two readings that might help the workshop participants start thinking about humanitarianism – its definition and history. They suggest participants look at these or other readings on this topic for any of the following: strengths, inspiration, challenges, barriers, gaps, weaknesses. The objective is not to read exhaustively, but rather for interesting context for each participant's own work and using their own personal and disciplinary lens. Background readings are uploaded to this webpage and will be sent via email to registered faculty after June 1st.

The agenda will loosely be as follows:

9:00 – 9:30: What do you mean by “humanitarianism”?

9:30 – 10:00: How do you fit in? How do your personal and professional passions and skills relate to humanitarian studies?

10:00 – 10:30: Goals and student learning outcomes for courses in the Humanitarian Action minor

10:30 – 10:45: Break

10:45 – 11:15: What has someone else done? What does a humanitarian studies syllabus look like?

11:15 - 12:00: What could you do? Brainstorming ideas for a course or course modules.