Faculty forum: Difficult Dialogues
| Date/Time: | Monday, 08 Feb 2010 at 12:00 pm |
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| Location: | Cardinal Room, Memorial Union |
| Cost: | Free |
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| Phone: | 515-294-9934 |
| Channel: | Lecture Series |
| Categories: | Diversity Lectures |
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Also, Faculty Roundtable Discussions with the 'Hot Topics' Authors
Monday, February 8, 2010
Cardinal Room, Memorial Union
9:30 - 11 am & 3:30 - 5:00 p.m.
Attend either or both sessions. Registration required: http://www.celt.iastate.edu/dd/homepage.html
These roundtable discussions will provide faculty the opportunity to share their experiences of handling difficult dialogues both in the classroom and other settings throughout campus. Authors will provide tips on how to construct and carry out difficult conversations from various vantage points.
For Roundtable Registration Information visit the difficult dialogues website at: http://www.celt.iastate.edu/dd/homepage.html
Robert J. Nash, University of Vermont (Nash bio)
Robert J. Nash has been a professor in the College of Education and Social Services, University of Vermont, Burlington, for 41 years. He specializes in philosophy of education, applied ethics, higher education, and religion, spirituality, and education. He holds graduate degrees in English, Theology/Religious Studies, Applied Ethics and Liberal Studies, and Educational Philosophy. He holds faculty appointments in teacher education, higher education administration, and interdisciplinary studies in education. He administers the Interdisciplinary Master's Program, and he teaches applied ethics, religion, higher education, and philosophy of education courses, as well as scholarly personal narrative writing seminars (a genre of writing that he created), across four programs in the college, including the doctoral program in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies. He has supervised over 100 theses and dissertations. He has published more than 100 articles in many of the leading journals in education at all levels. He has also published several book chapters, monographs, and essay book reviews. He is a member of the editorial board for the Journal of Religion & Education, and one of its frequent contributors. Since 1996, he has published ten books (all still in print), several of them national award winners:
"Real World" Ethics: Frameworks for Educators and Human Service Professionals (1st edition);
"Real World" Ethics: Frameworks for Educators and Human Service Professionals (2nd edition);
Answering the "Virtuecrats": A Moral Conversation on Character Education;
Faith, Hype, and Clarity: Teaching About Religion in American Schools and Colleges;
Religious Pluralism in the Academy: Opening the Dialogue;
Spirituality, Ethics, Religion, and Teaching: A Professor's Journey;
Liberating Scholarly Writing: The Power of Personal Narrative;
How To Talk about Hot Topics on Campus: From Polarization to Moral Conversation, first-author with DeMethra L. Bradley and Arthur W. Chickering.
Teaching Adolescents Religious Literacy in a Post-9/11 World, first-author with Penny Bishop;
Helping College Students Find Purpose: The Campus Guide to Meaning-Making, first author with Michele Murray.
He has done a variety of consultancies throughout the country for a number of human service organizations, public schools, and colleges and universities. He is a frequent, featured speaker at the national level. In 2003, he was named the Official University Scholar in the Social Sciences and the Humanities at The University of Vermont, only the second faculty member in the history of the College of Education and Social Services to be so honored. In 2009, he received the Joseph Anthony Abruscato Award for Excellence in Research and Scholarship at the University of Vermont.