Marshall Gregory Pedagogy Seminar

Marshall Gregory (back row center) and participants in his Pedagogy Seminar

The Marshall Gregory Pedagogy Seminar provides participants with the opportunity to sustain an extended and productive conversation with colleagues from different fields, to observe each other’s demonstrations of teaching techniques, and to think creatively and searchingly about theories and ideas that contribute to good teaching. The seminar always includes:

• a stimulating set of readings both classic and contemporary;
• an interesting group of companions and colleagues from a wide variety of disciplines;
• a wide array of ideas, established, speculative, hypothetical, and experimental;
• a series of conversations and discussions, the flow of which will not be interrupted by meetings, students, telephones or classes;
• and a designated place and time to meet.

The seminar helps and encourages teachers to take a reflective look at what they do and especially to examine the intellectual infrastructure of ideas, concepts, and values that support their everyday practice in the classroom. Some topics of previous seminars have included:  “How Do We Know What Teaching Is?” “Who Are Our Students, Not as Demographic Cohorts but as Persons?” and “Does Media Saturation Undermine Students’ Learning (Or Not)?” among others.

The Center for Faculty Development and Excellence will welcome Dr. Gregory back to Emory in May 2010. If you are interested in participating, please fill out and submit the form at the bottom of this page. We will be sending out an announcement to confirm the specific dates later on in the semester.

For more information about Dr. Marshall Gregory and his Pedagogy Seminar, please visit his website.

It is important to note that the CFDE offers two seminars for teaching, and co-sponsors a third.

MTP is a seminar that focuses primarily on techniques and pragmatics, such as the large lecture class, effective presentation styles, and so on.

The Marshall Gregory seminar focuses more on philosophical reflections about pedagogy and its role in the university.

Finally, along with other units at Emory, the CFDE helps to fund the IPLA (Institute for Pedagogy and the Liberal Arts) with Oxford College.  This is a three day workshop with a specifically liberal arts focus. It hosts a variety of different presenters focusing on both pragmatic and philosophical issues in teaching in the liberal arts environment.