Rooted in Place: Leveraging Location to Enrich Learning and Strengthen Impact
March 20 @ 10:30 am - 3:30 pm EDT
The Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence, Penn State Sustainability’s Engaged Scholarship Community of Practice, and State College Borough are excited to welcome Dr. Ashley Holmes to share her work and recent book, Learning on Location: Place-Based Approaches for Diverse Learners in Higher Education (Routledge, Nov. 2023). According to the Center for Engaged Learning, the book “offers an innovative framework and set of pedagogical pathways for engaging student experience through critical engagement with place. The book draws on interviews and case studies with educators in the United States and Canada to highlight pedagogies-in-action and to identify programmatic models for embedding location-based learning within specific courses, majors, curricula, and campus-wide initiatives.”
The event will include an author keynote, workshop, and ideation session to imagine place-based learning and experiences across all disciplines.
Registration is required at this registration link, and lunch is provided. Participants may choose to attend one or more sessions as their schedules permit.
Holmes leads Oregon State University’s Office of Academic Faculty Excellence (OAFE) and serves as Executive Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL). In this role, she provides strategic leadership to advance teaching effectiveness, faculty development, and student learning in alignment with OSU’s mission. With a background in rhetoric, composition, and the teaching of English, Holmes’s research centers around place-based learning, scholarship of teaching and learning, and public writing and rhetoric. Prior to joining OSU in 2024, she was academic faculty in English at Georgia State University for 12 years where she taught undergraduate and graduate courses in community-engaged writing, composition pedagogy, rhetorical theory, and research methods.
Q&A and CoP discussion will follow. Faculty from all Penn State campuses are welcome to attend.
