Frances Garrett, Teaching Empathy and Collaboration

2020-10-26

Description Dr. Frances Garrett from the University of Toronto discusses how she designs courses in creative ways that focus on developing student skills as well as sharing Buddhist studies content. She develops creative courses for her students, leading them through experiences like an immersive year-long embodied role playing game, or a seminar where the students collaborate on writing and publishing an academic journal. As a self professed introvert for whom teaching has always been a struggle of a sort, Frances ...

Description

Dr. Frances Garrett from the University of Toronto discusses how she designs courses in creative ways that focus on developing student skills as well as sharing Buddhist studies content. She develops creative courses for her students, leading them through experiences like an immersive year-long embodied role playing game, or a seminar where the students collaborate on writing and publishing an academic journal. As a self professed introvert for whom teaching has always been a struggle of a sort, Frances shares ways that she centers the mental health and needs of her undergraduate and graduate students, and creates a more compassionate University.

Quotes

"I think as a teacher you have to model appreciative criticism." Frances Garrett

"Students’ subjective experience can be a way into learning about interdependence." Frances Garrett

Links and References

Frances Garrett’s website and profile page

https://www.religion.utoronto.ca/people/directories/all-faculty/frances-garrett

http://francesgarrett.chass.utoronto.ca

Antioch University’s study abroad program in Bodhgaya, India (See also episode with Kerry Brown)

https://www.carleton.edu/global-engagement/buddhist-studies-india/

David Germano and the Tibetan Himalayan Digital Library

http://www.thlib.org/about/wiki/thdl%20home%20overview.html

Barnard College, Reacting to the Past - Role-playing game for undergraduate students

https://reacting.barnard.edu

Todd Lewis, "Getting the Foundations Right when Teaching Asian Religions," Education about Asia, 2010

https://college.holycross.edu/faculty/tlewis/PDFs/teaching_about_asian_religions.pdf

Todd Lewis, "Representations of Buddhism in Undergraduate Teaching: The Centrality of Ritual and Story Narratives," Teaching Buddhism in the West Routledge 2002

https://college.holycross.edu/faculty/tlewis/PDFs/Representations_of_Buddhism_in_Undergraduate_Teaching.pdf

Matt King, Barbara Hazelton, Andrew Erlich, and Nicholas Field, "Narratives of Hospitality and Feeding in Tibetan Ritual," Journal of the American Academy of Religion - article co-written by grad students
https://academic.oup.com/jaar/article/81/2/491/805712

3 Domains of Learning in Bloom’s Taxonomy

https://thesecondprinciple.com/instructional-design/threedomainsoflearning/

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