From Playing Buddha Golf

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From Playing Buddha Golf
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To Dances with Wu
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Pedagogy and Perspective In Teaching Non-Western
Traditions
Fritz Detwiler (Relg/Phil) and Michael McGrath
(Hist) Adrian College Adrian College Center for
Effective Teaching
We are indebted to the McGregor and Lilly
Foundations for their Support of Faculty
Development at Adrian College
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The Project
Using Class Design and Assessment as
pedagogical tools to move students toward the
natives point of view
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The Course

• Upper-level course
• Cross-listed and team taught
• Every-other-year basis for past 16 years
• Emphasis on Higher Order Thinking
• Using collaborative and active learning
  strategies
• Employing multiple learning styles
• An educational reformers dream course!

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Course Development
Richard Paul
Clifford Geertz
Art Costa
http//www.adrian.edu/fdetwiler/
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Course Design

• Museum Projects
• 3 Smaller Projects
• Final Composite
• Written Argument
• Visual Representation
• Multiple Learning Styles
• Higher Order Thinking
• In-class work
• Quizzes
• Lecture/Discussion
• Group work
• Factual Mastery
• Higher Order Thinking

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The Course From Buddhist Hell

• Strong student resistance to projects and to
  grasping Buddhist perspectives
• Multiple strategies employed to overcome
  resistance
• Reassessment of course design during the
  following summer

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Redesign - Buddhism

• Emphasis on the experience of Buddhism
• Using Buddhist categories to structure the course
  Buddhistically
• Four Noble Truths
• Three Poisons
• Upaya

Roger J. Corless
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Success!
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Chinese Religions - Categories

• Ancestor / Folk religion including imperial rites
• Confucianism
• Daoism
• Buddhism

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Assessment Chinese Religions

• Yin Yang the dynamic interaction of museum
  components
• Balance
• Depth
• Breadth

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Assessment Chinese Religions
Harmony -- how the elements of the museum fit
together Content Segments
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Assessment Chinese Religions
Propriety is there an appropriate amount of
content and is it appropriate to the religious
tradition(s) Fairness Adequacy
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Assessment Chinese Religions

• Dao path through the museum reflects insight
  into the dance of the universe
• Coherence
• Insight
• Significance

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For More Information

• Phone [phone]
• E-mail fdetwiler_at_adrian.edu
• Web http//www.adrian.edu/fdetwiler/