{"id":22238,"date":"2019-02-27T08:03:20","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T13:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/edc\/?p=22238"},"modified":"2022-01-13T14:33:01","modified_gmt":"2022-01-13T19:33:01","slug":"creating-a-transformative-teaching-and-learning-environment-at-carleton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/2019\/creating-a-transformative-teaching-and-learning-environment-at-carleton\/","title":{"rendered":"Creating a transformative teaching and learning environment at Carleton"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Matthew Curtis, Fourth-Year Journalism, Carleton University<\/em><\/p>\n

As the saying goes, you are a product of your environment.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want a student to walk away from Carleton feeling empowered and able to engage in society. And that can be from getting a particular sort of job, to living in a particular community in a very certain kind of way, to advocating and being an engaged citizen, \u201d says David Hornsby, Carleton\u2019s Associate Vice-President (Teaching and Learning).<\/p>\n

For Hornsby, creating this environment is something he has striven to do from one side of the planet to the other \u2013 attributing this desire to insights he gained into teaching\u2019s power and value from his first academic post at Wits University in Johannesburg, South Africa.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn a context like South Africa, which is still dealing quite significantly with the effects of apartheid, higher education is a recourse or way to rectify that terrible history,\u201d he says. \u201cEducation is a transformative endeavour in South Africa, where going to university is a clear pathway out of poverty.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hornsby says his passion for the transformative nature of teaching fuels his vision for teaching and learning \u2013 combining his background in international relations and political science to emphasize the social justice elements of teaching.<\/p>\n

After eight years, this pairing led him from South Africa to University College in the United Kingdom, and finally to Carleton for his current role, which Hornsby says is, \u201cin many respects, the perfect fit,\u201d due to its emphasis on examining the construction of university teaching and learning environments.<\/p>\n

\"David<\/a>Arriving at Carleton, Hornsby says what struck him most was \u201chow much effort, care and interest Carleton as an institution had in fostering a really positive, modern and critical teaching and learning environment.\u201d He also commended faculty members\u2019 dedication to creating this environment at both institutional and individual levels.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor me it\u2019s about recognizing the power of teaching and learning and that it\u2019s a critical part of the endeavour \u2013 not an add on to the research environment or an add on to the other activities that we do,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

He also reinforced the importance of constructing an educational framework to foster student success and highlighted the value of innovation, experimentation and not fearing mistakes.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we\u2019re scared of making mistakes then we\u2019re not going to be trying new things, we\u2019re not going to be innovating. And I fear that would badly affect student success,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

Ultimately, Hornsby says he wants the same for students and professors \u2013 a sense of empowerment from their time at Carleton, which students receive from their time spent in an environment that has prepared them for the changing needs of society, and which professors receive from realizing the importance of what they do in the teaching and learning space.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt comes back to my experience in South Africa where I realized there was a clear link between someone coming from an impoverished background and getting a university degree, and fundamentally transforming their lives and being able to help make South Africa better and have a better life for themselves. And I think that still holds true here.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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