Compassionate Pedagogy and Experiential Learning

The primary goal of this project is to enhance student engagement and participation in the learning environment, especially those who have may have been marginalized by conventional approaches to teaching. This project aims to support, encourage, and train faculty to incorporate compassionate pedagogy (CP) and experiential learning (EL) into their teaching, with the goal of promoting student connection and faculty creativity.

This project will create connections between CP and EL by identifying techniques from each that reinforce the other for the common goal of building relationships in the classroom. This project hopes to encourage conversations around teaching practices such as alternative assessment (ungrading), less teaching more learning (content reduction), inquiry-based learning, and inclusive teaching methods such as cognitive, relational, and somatosensory.