Carol Rodgers- A Humanizing Pedagogy: Getting Beneath the Rhetoric in a South African........
Channel: UBC Education Research
Date: 2014-06-11

TITLE: A Humanizing Pedagogy: Getting Beneath the Rhetoric in a South African Post-Conflict University Context

The UBC Faculty of Education is pleased to announce this summer's series of courses and public presentations by scholars from the international education community.  June 4, 2014

Carol Rodgers is associate professor of education in the Department of Educational Theory and Practice at the University of Albany, State University of New York. Before coming to SUNY Albany in 2000, she taught for 19 years with the Experiment in International Living and in the Masters of Arts in Teaching Program at the School for International Training in Brattleboro, Vermont. Dr. Rodgers' teaching and research interests include reflective practice, the historical roots of reflection in the work of John Dewey and early progressive teacher education efforts, reflective teacher education and professional development. She is currently interested in understanding the definition and practice of a humanizing pedagogy, both in the US and South Africa where she spent a year as a Fulbright Scholar in 2011. Dr. Rodgers holds an Ed.D. from Harvard Graduate School of Education. She received an M.Ed. from the University of Massachusetts and a B.A. from Bates College.