Learning to Share: Partnerships in Service Learning, Public Scholarship, and Library Exhibitions
Start Date
20-3-2016 1:00 PM
End Date
20-3-2016 5:00 PM
Description
Libraries can serve as a site for student-curated, curricular exhibitions that provide an opportunity for public scholarship and an extension of service learning. Exhibit design challenges science students to translate their learning into a compelling story both visually and through text accessible to non-specialists. In this active learning session, a library curator and biology professor will briefly share their experience collaborating to support a student-curated exhibition in an undergraduate service learning public health course. Participants will collectively curate a mini-exhibition, providing perspective on synthesizing, selecting, and summarizing a complex topic for the public, with time included for reflection and discussion.
Short bio of the presenter(s)
Margaret Pezalla-Granlund, a visual artist, museum educator, and curator, is the curator of Library Art and Exhibitions in Gould Library, Carleton College. She received her MFA from the California Institute of Art (CalArts). She has been awarded grants for her creative work from the McKnight Foundation, the Minnesota State Arts Board, and the Jerome Foundation. In 2013 and 2015, she was a Lucas Artist Resident at the Montalvo Arts Center in Saratoga, California. She has presented on the value of interdisciplinary and curricular exhibitions in academic libraries at conferences of the ACRL, the College Art Association, and the Universities Art Association of Canada. Debby Walser-Kuntz is a Professor of Biology at Carleton College and teaches Immunology, Virology, Public Health in Practice, and Methods of Teaching Science, as well as an introductory biology course. She ventured into the world of academic service learning, or academic civic engagement, more than ten years ago after recognizing that her bright and talented students learn more when they share their knowledge with others. She is currently the Broom Faculty Fellow for Public Scholarship through Carleton’s Center for Community and Civic Engagement and was selected as a Project Pericles Periclean Faculty Leader. She has published her engaged scholarship on the Science Education Resource Center’s “Pedagogy in Action” site and presented at IARSCLE and AAC&U conferences.
Learning to Share: Partnerships in Service Learning, Public Scholarship, and Library Exhibitions
Libraries can serve as a site for student-curated, curricular exhibitions that provide an opportunity for public scholarship and an extension of service learning. Exhibit design challenges science students to translate their learning into a compelling story both visually and through text accessible to non-specialists. In this active learning session, a library curator and biology professor will briefly share their experience collaborating to support a student-curated exhibition in an undergraduate service learning public health course. Participants will collectively curate a mini-exhibition, providing perspective on synthesizing, selecting, and summarizing a complex topic for the public, with time included for reflection and discussion.
