Pictured in this photo left to right are Ibrahim Bawa (3rd-Year, International Relations and Global Studies), Drs. Joan Middendorf (Lead Instructional Consultant, Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning, Indiana University Bloomington) & Heather Wright (Assistant Director, CTL), Samantha Tonini (3rd-Year, History & Sociology), Alice Newberry (Ph.D. Student, Anthropology), Kathy Takayama (Interim Dean of Faculty Affairs, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University), and Taharka Anderson (Ph.D. Candidate, African & African Diaspora Studies).
InSPiRE Team Presents at Decoding the Disciplines Conference
On November 1st, the CTL’s Initiative of Students as Partners in Research and Education (InSPiRE) team gave a well-received presentation at the Second Decoding the Disciplines conference at Indiana University Bloomington. During their interactive workshop the team weaved in personal narratives while providing participants with a snapshot of the evolution and growth of InSPiRE, as well as their approach to incorporating students as research partners. They also presented findings from ongoing research focused on students’ second-year experiences at UT. The research team was able to build deeper connections with each other and great connections of their own with national and international scholars! This group of students and others are continuing to support second-year students and the larger campus community through their collaborative research.
The vision of InSPiRE is to curate and generate research on teaching and learning that fundamentally alters what it means to be a learner, an inquirer, and an agent of change within and outside of the university context. To enact this vision, InSPiRE draws on: facilitation and community- building resources, students-as-partners scholarship, and scholarship identifying best practices for asset-based, holistic student participation in teaching, learning, and research that involves them.
For more information about InSPiRE or the Second-Year Experience project, please contact: Dr. Wright (heather.wright@utexas.edu) or sye@utexas.edu.