Abstract:

This poster is an amalgamative representation of the voices, understandings, and interpretations of six cross-disciplinary faculty members from Mount Royal University (Calgary, Canada) who participated in series of discussions focusing on pedagogy and its multiple meanings over the course of one [academic calendar] year. The text, "Learning in Adulthood" (Merriam, Caffarella, and Baumgartner, 2006) provided a starting point for a journey through which familiar and unfamiliar terrain was traversed, explored, configured, and reconfigured. Along with teaching and learning in a broad sense, topics of conversation included: adult development, aging and memory, spiritual connections, and culturally diverse conceptions of pedagogy. From this rich exchange of ideas and renderings, several questions, rumbling beneath the surface as a quiet and disquieting discourse, emerged: "What is pedagogy? What are its effects? Who decides what we teach and how? How do we (and perhaps should we) seek a fusion of understandings?".

As a final summation of the experience offered through this "Faculty Learning Community", each group member encapsulated their professional understandings and interpretations through the metaphors, images, and inspirational quotes encased within this poster.
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Keywords:

Pedagogy, teaching/learning, reflection/action, relationship(s)