Cultivating Community through Experiential Education
Session Description
This experiential and highly interactive student-led session will get you moving and encourage reflection on your connections to–and relationship with–the world around you. You’ll be encouraged to utilize principles of experiential education to cultivate a stronger sense of community and belonging, while you reflect with others on how you can conceptualize your relationship with the natural world, wherever you call home.
Â鶹ÊÓƵ Evan Small
Dr. Evan Small is a faculty member in the Dr. Jo Watts Williams School of Education. Evan has been a practitioner and scholar of experiential education in various forms for many years, with a strong background in service-learning, study abroad, undergraduate research, and outdoor education. Evan’s research interests include integrating experiential education with social justice and critical pedagogy, fostering educational communities focused on belonging and mattering, incorporating experiential education into K-12 formal education settings, and facilitator skill development.