Dean Ramser HIP/SLICE Student Essays
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | GED2EdD: GED: 1976; AA: 2005; BA: 2007; MA: 2011; EdD: 2018 - (retired; instructor at EOU, BMCC, & LCC) |
| Location | Pendleton, OR, United States |
| Introduction | I am an English Lecturer, (GED2EDD) and Education Instructor, happily married to my sweetheart Cindy, and we are living the dream. |
| Interests | By using technology and Open Education Resource Commons (OER) material to develop 21st century students’"conscientizacao” (Paolo Freire’s critical consciousness), my hope is to shed light on how our colleges and universities can support our students’ knowledge and writing skill needed to contribute to our democracy by supporting demonstrative learning outside the classroom; specifically, my )HIP/SLICE “Fix-It”) journal-to-research-essay activity that utilizes High Impact Practices (HIP) and Service Learning Internship Community Engagement (SLICE) as effective teaching methodologies to inform and create critical feedback on assignments and discussions on social justice issues which my diverse student population chose to address. George Kuh's High Impact Practice theory in my writing activities, along with Albert Bandura's “Social-Cognitive Theory” and Writing Across Curriculum (WAC), help students recognize the text's rhetorical situation: "audience, purpose, context, stance, media, and design." |
| Favorite movies | 400 Blows |
| Favorite music | Erik Satie |
| Favorite books | Thiefs Journal |