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Sarah Vitale will present the closing keynote, “The Teacher as Social Worker and Cruise Director.”
Session Date/Time: Friday, March 22, 11:15 A.M. – 12:00 P.M. Eastern
Session Description: Our students have many demands on their time, including coursework, employment, and family responsibilities. Many experience financial insecurity, and still more suffer from mental health problems. Their social media feeds are filled with news of climate disaster, war, and political polarization. In my presentation, I talk about cultivating a space in the general education class outside these demands and anxieties, a space for reflection, dialogue, experimentation, and even play, and I emphasize the value of trauma-informed pedagogy for ensuring that all of our students can bring their whole selves into this space and grow with one another.
Speaker Bio: Dr. Sarah Vitale is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. She is from upstate New York, and received her PhD in 2014 from Villanova University. At Ball State, she teaches classes on critical theories, existentialism, and social institutions. Her research focuses on Marx and post-Marxism, especially on the notions of labor, human nature, and gender, as well as the scholarship of teaching and learning. She is president of the Radical Philosophy Association, an academic and activist society dedicated to social change. Her publications include “Marx and the Anticipation of Post-work Futures” (Philosophy Today 55, no. 4) and “Beyond Homo Laborans: Marx’s Dialectical Account of Human Essence” (Social Theory and Practice 43, no. 3). She is currently working on an edited collection of accounts of activism in Muncie, Indiana. Vitale is the director of the Philosophy Outreach Project, which promotes philosophy in high schools. Her article “Community-Engaged Learning and Precollege Philosophy During Neoliberalism” (Teaching Philosophy 42, no. 4) focuses on her work with the project.
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The Teaching and Technology Summit is hosted by the Division of Online and Strategic Learning. If you have questions about the Summit, email strategicrln@bsu.edu.
The Division of Online and Strategic Learning provides support and assessment for technology-enhanced teaching and learning for on-campus, online, and blended courses and programs. Our aim is to establish an institute of good practice that all faculty will find useful, formidable, and essential to their aspirations of excellence in teaching.