Culture & Community: Learning Theories in Practice

1.5 credits · Peabody College - Professional

This course offers a deep dive into how Sociocultural theories of learning, help us to interpret and design for other people’s engagement in different ways. Theory frames the way we see the world, what we notice about it, and how we come to understand it. Theories also therefore influence the kinds of solutions, refinements, or suggestions that we offer about changing, improving, or revising the world. However, these theories are often tacit, or unstated, meaning that the why of our work—how we choose to assess learning, the kinds of activities we design to support learning—might fail for reasons that are hard to detect. This course will support us all to sharpen our lens to make explicit claims about the how and why of our assessments and designs and reflect on the implications of those theories and designs when considering outcomes for learners. [1.5]