Synthesis and Integration

This capstone seminar is organized around each student’s presentation of his or her community-based case study, which is developed and written as the culmination of four practicum courses. Students take a lead role in organizing the overall structure and themes of this seminar, a process that will evolve during the course of Term IV. This seminar includes a student-designed evaluation of the Master’s program and each student presentation. It includes the active participation and involvement of faculty and resource persons. The aim of the course is to synthesize and integrate the entire span of learning that has occurred over four terms of interactive online learning, residential studies, and applied community research and service. Themes of this course include:

• Transformative learnings
• Teachers as learners / learners as teachers
• Critical and creative inquiry,
• Lifelong learning communities
• Qualitative and quantitative monitoring
• Ecological sustainability
• Reflective practice