Teaching Mountains Workshop

Une journée d'exploration de l'enseignement créatif, réactif et axé sur les étudiants travaillant sur les territoires de montagne.

L'atelier "Teaching Mountains" réunit des praticiens de la pédagogie de l'enseignement supérieur pour une journée d'exploration de l'enseignement créatif, réactif et axé sur les étudiants travaillant sur les territoires de montagne.
La journée sera consacrée au partage d'expérience qui ont permis à des étudiants de premier, deuxième et troisième cycle, ainsi qu'à des lycéens, de mieux comprendre les arts, les cultures, l'histoire et les communautés de la montagne. L'atelier offre la possibilité d'échanger et d'apprendre avec des professeurs des États-Unis, d'Écosse, d'Angleterre, de Suisse et de France, qui font tous de l'enseignement de la montagne une partie de leur pratique pédagogique.

The Teaching Mountains Workshop brings together practitioners of higher education pedagogy for a day-long exploration of creative, responsive, and student-focused teaching about mountains.
Presenters share their experiences bringing students, at the graduate, undergraduate, and intellectually gifted high school levels, to a deeper understanding of mountain arts, cultures, histories, and communities. The workshop offers the opportunity to engage with and learn from professors from the United States, Scotland, England, Switzerland, and France, all of whom make teaching mountains a part of their practice of pedagogy.

Organisateurs / Organizing Committee:

• Katherine E. Ledford, PhD Professor of Appalachian Studies | Department of Interdisciplinary Studies, Appalachian State University
• Jon Mathieu, Professeur émérite, University of Lucerne
• Anne-Marie Granet Abisset, Professeur émérite histoire contemporaine, LARHRA, Axe Transalpes de la MSH-Alpes

Modalités d'accès / Participation

Cette journée est gratuite, ouverte à toutes et tous, sans inscription.
This workshop is free of charge, open to all, no registration required.

Program

8:00-8:15 | Welcome - Katherine Ledford, Appalachian State University

Session 1 -- 8:30-9:45

Widening Viewsheds: Teaching Mountains from the Edge of the Appalachians
Kathryn Engle, Lindsay Shade, Zada Komara & Kathryn Newfont, University of Kentucky
 
Mountain Peripherality in the Empowerment of Alpine Resistance Movements Against Industrial Pollution. The Crucial Role of Knowledge Production in Contested Symbolic Meanings over Mountain Territories
Olivier Chatterji, Rhône-Alpes Historical Research Laboratory, Université Grenoble Alpes

Session 2 -- 10:00-11:15

Mountain Branding with Tolkien
William Bainbridge, University of Hertfordshire

Connecting Mountain Literature to Other Spaces and Places: Mapping Regional Relationships
Douglas Reichert Powell, Columbia College Chicago

Engaging Non-traditional Learners in the Classroom and the Field: Merging Appalachian Studies with Agriculture and Natural Resources Education
Bill Ward II, University of Tennessee Extension

Morning Plenary 11:30-noon

Developing a virtual student community – MSc Sustainable Mountain Development
Rosalind Bryce, Centre for Mountain Studies, University of Highlands and Islands

12:00-1:15 Lunch on your own

Afternoon Plenary 1:30-2:00

Global Mountains – Sciences, Humanities, Teaching
Jon Mathieu, University of Lucerne

Session 3 A -- 2:00-3:15

Appalachian Archival Work: Classroom Practices
Mae Claxton, Western Carolina University

Writing the Appalachian Gothic in Lyric and Narrative Poetry
Jesse Kendall Graves, East Tennessee State University

Learning from Mountains, Music, and Work in Southern Appalachia
Kevin Kehrberg, Warren Wilson College

Session 3 B -- 2:00-3:15

Tennessee Governor’s School: Place-Based Learning through a Summer Mountain Institute for High School Students
Rebecca Adkins Fletcher, East Tennessee State University

Thinking Glocally in the Swannanoa Valley; or, Finding World History at Home
Jeff Keith, Warren Wilson College

Encounters with Appalachian Material Culture to Engage Undergraduates with Place and Meaning
Christopher A. Miller, Berea College

Session 4 -- 3:30-4:45

Fighting Home: Establishing & Maintaining the Appalachian Cultural Center at Carson-Newman University
Nicole Drewitz-Crockett, Carson-Newman University

Teaching Poverty, Teaching the Mountain. Appalachia as a Case Study
Taoufik Djebali, University of Caen Normandie

Mountains and Place-based Learning
Brent Olson & Jeffrey Nichols, Westminster College

5:00-5:15 Closing remarks, Katherine Ledford
5:15-6:00 Planning for conference presentation