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Brockwood Teaching Academy
Co-sponsored by UCSB's Gevirtz Graduate School of Education
The 2nd Annual Brockwood Teaching Academy offers a two-week intensive program that revisits fundamental questions in education while practically and experientially embedding this inquiry in concrete teaching-learning situations. The program provides educators with opportunities to review and reflect upon their teaching or administrative practices and to envision new and coherent alternatives. The Academy's pedagogy is aimed at developing an inquiry based and creative ethos, in a contemplative setting of mutual respect, self understanding and shared learning.
The Teaching Academy intends to provide grounding and renewal for both educators and veterans in the educational field. This program is also being conducted internationally in the USA, Europe, India, Thailand and other countries.
Session 1: Re-envisioning Education
Sunday 10th July to Saturday 16th July
The intent of this session is for participants to question and make visible their assumptions about teaching and learning, and to start from scratch to practically design schools, classrooms and other learning environments.
Session 2: The Art, Science and Craft of Teaching and Learning
Sunday 17th July to Saturday 23rd July
The intent of this session is for participants to engage in self-reflective and shared inquiry involving the close observation of school and classroom activities with hands-on and minds-on experiences of teaching and learning.
How to Apply
Participants are strongly encouraged to attend both sessions as they are complementary to each other. The first session is open to everyone. Since the second session builds on the work of the first, it is open only to participants who have already attended the first session.
To apply for the course, please fill out our Application Form.
Program Details
We will primarily use J. Krishnamurti's insights on education as the foundation for our considerations. In an atmosphere of reflection and a setting of natural beauty, participants will engage in daily activities such as:
| Inquiry and dialogues | Classroom observations (viewing film clips) |
| Interrogating our own educational narratives | Study of educational articles on the aims of school and the foundations of teaching |
| Designing learning environments (starting school from scratch) | Communication and collaborative work in different settings |
| Journal writing | Silence and Quiet time |
| Role play and theater (myths of teaching and learning) | Developing a learning/teaching portfolio |
Recreational activities including nature walks, folk dance, music, theater and film viewing will also be available.