Of education, fishbowls, and rabbit holes : rethinking teaching and liberal education for an interconnected world / Jane Fried.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: 1. Teaching, Learning, And Storytelling -- Higher Education as Culture and Subcultures: Stories That Go On and On -- Recognizing Cultural Beliefs: It All Seems So Normal ... -- Why Call This Belief System a Story? What Is Your Perspective on Perspectives? -- Becoming Aware of Beliefs and Wondering Where They Lead Us -- 2. Life Beyond The Fishbowl: The Grand Narrative, Academic Disciplines, And Deep Learning -- How This Fishbowl Developed -- Why Do I Need to Know This? -- Getting Out Of the Fishbowl -- Story of Your Discipline or Area of Expertise -- Integrated Inquiry and Deep Learning -- Do Students Care? Exchanging Fishbowls and Supporting Deep Learning -- Note -- 3. Everybody Learns, Some Teach -- Learning, Reflection, and Experience -- Learning in Your Discipline or Area of Expertise -- Teaching the Way People Learn -- Personal and the Impersonal: Is This a Binary or an Iterative Process? -- Learning to Be a Contributing Member of Family and Community -- Pedagogical Conundra and Personal Reflection -- What's the Point? -- 4. Entr'acte: Is "Teach" A Transitive Verb? -- What's the Point? -- Students, Learning, and Development -- 5. Self-Authorship: A New Narrative Of Learning -- Student Story -- Cartesian Split and the Twenty-First-Century Connection -- Another Student Story -- Self-Authorship and the Construction of Knowledge -- Classroom Dialogue -- Self-Authorship Is Often a Confusing and Painful Process -- What's the Point? -- My Moment of Insight -- More Serious Insight -- 6. Professional Boundaries And Skills: Searching For Meaning Is Not Counseling -- Self-Authorship and the Creation of a Personal Narrative -- Self-Authorship, Personal Narrative, and Counseling: What's the Difference? -- Group Skills: A Focus on Process -- Mindfulness and Contemplation: A Focus on Meaning -- What's the Point? -- 7. Curriculum, General Education, And The Grand Narrative -- General Education, Weil-Rounded Students, and Poetic Insights -- Looking at the Fishbowl, Not Through It -- Organizing the General Education Curriculum for Self-Authorizing Learning -- Different Ways of Organizing Curricula -- In the Rabbit Hole Almost Anything Can Make Sense -- Create Your Own Rabbit Hole -- Now What? -- 8. Assessment: Documenting Learning From Alternate Perspectives -- Peter Troiano -- Assessment Process -- Operationalizing Assessment in All Its Complexities -- Inevitability of Assessment in the Current Environment -- CONCLUSION ... Well, Maybe Not -- APPENDIX A WORKING IN GROUPS AND FACILITATING DISCUSSIONS -- Group Composition -- Group Process Issues -- Group Facilitation Skills (for the Professor) -- Resources -- Assessment -- APPENDIX B CONTEMPLATIVE PRACTICES FOR CLASSROOM USE -- What Are Contemplative Practices?

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