Document Type
Article
Publication Title
Faculty Focus
Abstract
As longtime practitioners in our disciplines, we develop implicit skills that can be the source of some of the deepest learning for our students. In his book Experience and Education, John Dewey describes habit as “the formation of attitudes, attitudes that are emotional and intellectual…our basic sensitivities and ways of responding to all the conditions we meet in living” (35). Experiencing implies the sensing body, embodied learning, and Dewey does not shy away from the emotional dimensions of learning—both of which are often where the deepest learning happens, where students’ passion for a discipline ignites, and where experts’ best ideas originate. These often-overlooked dimensions of learning are also where empathy lives, and so it is there that knowledge might blossom not only into expertise but into wisdom.
Publication Date
9-25-2018
Recommended Citation
Parrish, Gillian, "Jedi Training: Developing Habits of Perception in Our Disciplines" (2018). Faculty Scholarship. 308.
https://digitalcommons.lindenwood.edu/faculty-research-papers/308
Rights
This article first appeared in Faculty Focus on September 25, 2018. © Magna Publications. All rights reserved.