Learning Matters: a Bridge to Practice

Today we have with us Babaluku, who is an Ugandan rapper, musician, producer, community youth activist and social entrepreneur who raps in Luganda. He is a member of the Bataka Squad. He is the founder of the Bavubuka Foundation which equips the youth with leadership skills.

https://bavubuka.wordpress.com/about/

https://www.okayafrica.com/babaluku-uganda-luga-flow-legend/

http://www.afrovanconnect.com/

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Today we have with us Deon Pretorius, He is regarded as a role model as an ‘engaged scholar’ who stepped outside of the ‘ivory tower’,  a successful and popular professor of Development Studies with a focus on Applied Sociology, Development Planning, and Development Policy at Nelson Mandela University and has also led teams and conducted work that resulted in more than 150 research, policy, strategic or development planning documents. 

Deon has a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Warwick where he was supervised by Margaret Archer influential theorist in the critical realist tradition, examined by the distinguished methodologist Prof Robert Burgess and respected South African Sociologist, Prof Cornie Groenewald.

He taught Sociology at the University of Port Elizabeth (UPE) from 1983 to 1994 and then taught Development Studies at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU) from 2006 until the present.  From 1995 to 2006 Director of a Multi-Disciplinary Research and Development Planning Institute.  From 2006 to the present he has been the Managing Director of Development Partners.

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Today we have with us Gideon Strauss, Academic Dean and Associate Professor of Worldview Studies at the Institute for Christian Studies.  He also serves as a senior fellow with the Center for Public Justice in Washington DC. Gideon also facilitates vocational discipleship in churches in his native South Africa.

Lead From Where You Are: Making a Difference in the Face of Tough Problem, Big Questions and Organizational Politics:

http://courses.icscanada.edu/2020/04/lead-from-where-you-are-making.html

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Today we have with us Bruce Herman, a painter and writer whose art has been exhibited internationally across the US and in Canada, as well as in Israel, Italy, England, Hong Kong, and Japan. Herman taught from 1984 to Spring of 2020 at Gordon College, where he currently holds the Lothlórien Distinguished Chair in Fine Arts and curates exhibitions for the art gallery. 

 https://www.bruceherman.com

 Collaborations (from most recent to older):

1. 2018—present "Ordinary Saints" - with Malcom Guite and J.A.C. Redford

https://ordinary-saints.com

 2. 2011–2013  “QU4RTETS" - with Makoto Fujimura, Christopher Theofanidis, and Jeremy Begbie

https://iamculturecare.com/projects/qu4rtets

 3. 2005–2007  "A Broken Beauty" - with Canadian curator David Goa, and L.A. curator Gordon Fuglie along with  fifteen other artists (including Vancouver artists Erica Grimm, David Robinson, and Toronto's Stephen DeStaebler)

https://lagunaartmuseum.org/exhibitions/a-broken-beauty-figuration-narrative-and-the-transcendent-in-north-american-art/

 4. Scott Album Challenge: https://spark.adobe.com/page/5LmHwgmDWnIzp/

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On this episode of Learning Matters, Darcy Gullacher, Bill Badke, and Qinqin Zhang (Norma Marion Allow Library) discuss the role of the Library as nexus – a joining place serving scholarship, teaching and learning. 

Darcy Gullacher was born and raised in Calgary, AB. He completed a B.A.R. at Rocky Mountain College, a B.A. at The King’s University College, and an M.L.I.S. at the University of Alberta. Prior to joining TWU, he served at Alberta Bible College and Rocky Mountain College, both in Calgary, AB, and Briercrest College and Seminary in Caronport, SK. He has served as the University Librarian at Trinity Western University since January, 2019.

Bill Badke grew up in Kelowna, BC. After completing his B.A. at UBC, he took an M.Div. and M.Th. at Northwest Baptist Seminary, before working with his wife at a Bible college in Nigeria for 2 years, where he taught biblical studies. On return, Badke taught theology for Northwest Baptist Seminary, completed his M.L.S. and returned to Northwest as a librarian. Since 2000, he has been TWU’s Associate Librarian for Associated Canadian Theological Schools and Information Literacy.

Qinquin Zhang serves as Assistant Librarian: Information Literacy, E-Learning, and E-Resources and holds degrees in B.Eng. Computer Science in Information Engineering (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology),  M.Sc. Instructional Technology (Lehigh University) and M.L.I.S. Library and Information Science (British Columbia).

Norma Marion Allow Library – Trinity Western University.   https://www.twu.ca/library

TWUSpace – TWU Institutional Repository https://libguides.twu.ca/twuspace

University of Calgary: Visualization Studio
https://library.ucalgary.ca/guides/digitalprojects/campusprojects?tag_id=52619

Online Searcher: Information Discovery, Technology, Strategies http://www.infotoday.com/onlinesearcher/ 

University of Calgary: Visualization Studio
https://library.ucalgary.ca/guides/digitalprojects/campusprojects?tag_id=52619

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On this episode of Learning Matters, Dr. Robynne Healey, Professor of History and Co-director, Gender Studies Institute discusses people, places, politics and forgotten histories.

Robynne Rogers Healey is Professor of History as well as Co-director of the Gender Studies Institute at Trinity Western University in Langley.  Her publications include books and articles in many aspects of Quaker history. Her research interests include gender and Quakerism, the transatlantic world in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and the twentieth-century peace testimony. She teaches introductory courses in gender studies and post-1945 global history and senior and graduate courses in the Atlantic world, history of the family, gender studies, and war, peace, and society. Her overarching goal in classes is to help students discover how interesting, applicable, and important history is.

Sugar, Slaves, Silver: The Atlantic World, 1450 – 18500:

https://issuu.com/trinity_western_university/docs/magazine_amnesia_-_final?fr=sZDM4YzI3NTY3OA

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On this episode of Learning Matters, Dr. Andrew Perrin, Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Director of the Dead Sea Scrolls Institute at Trinity Western University discusses the literary, cultural, theological, and historical context of the Dead Sea Scrolls.  The conversation dives into issues of exile and hope during uncertain times.

Andrew Perrin (PhD, McMaster University) holds the Canada Research Chair in Religious Identities of Ancient Judaism at Trinity Western University. As an Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Director of the Dead Sea Scrolls Institute he teaches and researches the literary, cultural, theological, and historical contexts of the Hebrew Scriptures. For insights into these worlds, subscribe to his YouTube channel (www.youtube.com/drandrewperrin) and follow him on Twitter (@ab_perrin).

www.andrewperrin.com/

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On this episode of Learning Matter, Dr. Valerie Irvine, Assistant Professor, Educational Technology at University of Victoria discusses Multi Access education.

Dr. Irvine is interested in technology integrated into teaching and learning and e-learning with a specific focus on multi-access learning, which she developed in 2009. Dr. Irvine is founder and co-director of the Technology Integration and Evaluation (TIE) Research Lab.  Dr. Irvine is a professor interested in ways to put the student back at the centre of learning. Shifts to support this in any aspect of K-20 policy and practice creates a domino effect: personalizing demands change in assessment; giving learners agency demands shifts in modality, access, and a recognition that learning happens wherever the learner is; inclusivity of special needs and addressing social justice demands shifts in power structures; liberating structures requires open access resources; to access open educational resources and to create a personal learning network, educators, leaders, and learners will need to develop digital, newtorked, and open literacy; and, ultimately, to create systematic shifts, developing stronger relationships and respect will be required.

http://valerieirvine.ca/

https://www.uvic.ca/research/labs/tie/

https://otessa.org/

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On this episode of Learning Matter, Dr. Phil Laird, Vice Provost of GLOBAL at TWU, discusses servant leadership, motivated learning and J curves in Higher Education.

Philip G. Laird, Ph.D. earned his BA in Psychology from the University of British Columbia in 1990, his MA in Social/Developmental Psychology from Simon Fraser University in 2003, and his Ph.D. in Psychology with a special designation in Psychology and the Law in 1997 from Simon Fraser University. Phil joined the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Trinity Western University in 1995 and served as a faculty member in Psychology conducting research on moral reasoning, moral attributions, and jury decision-making. During his first seven years at TWU, he served on multiple committees/councils including the Faculty Affairs Executive, Academic Technology Committee, Mediated Learning Taskforce and TWEST Council. He transitioned to University Administration in 2001 as the Director of the Global Mediated Learning Center and has subsequently held various academic administrative positions including Dean of Global Learning Connections and Associate Provost. Leading many new initiatives at TWU, Phil currently provides leadership to nontraditional learning programs and students including online and mediated learning programs, summer sessions, adult professional programs, and global education programs.

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On this episode of Learning Matters, Dr. Laurie Matthias, Associate Provost – Teaching and Learning discusses Teaching with Care and Building Community During a Pandemic.

 Dr. Laurie Matthias serves as the Associate Provost, Teaching and Learning at Trinity Western University.  Before coming to Trinity Western University to begin her role on July 2, Laurie spent 12 years as an education faculty member at Trinity International University in Deerfield, Ill., where she also directed graduate programs and the Center for Integrative Faculty Development—a centre she founded for the entire university faculty. Dr. Matthias was the only faculty member awarded the President’s Prize for Excellence in Scholarship and Teaching twice in a five-year period.

 Dr. Matthias’s pedagogical insight and academic leadership are a direct result of her educational journey and extensive practical experience teaching in secondary schools. After obtaining a bachelor’s degree in English education, Laurie spent two decades teaching high school English, before resuming her graduate studies. She then went to Regent University in Virginia Beach, Va., and earned a Master of Education degree as well as a doctorate in higher education with an emphasis in teaching.

Laurie brings a passion for and expertise on the integration of faith and learning, and has a deep desire to promote a biblical understanding of diversity in the university community. She values each person’s role and contribution to the mission of the university and enjoys the synergy of collaboration and cooperation.

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