{"id":179,"date":"2013-05-27T08:00:06","date_gmt":"2013-05-27T03:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/teachingscholar\/?p=179"},"modified":"2013-06-06T20:41:11","modified_gmt":"2013-06-06T15:41:11","slug":"students-travel-this-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/teachingscholar\/2013\/05\/27\/students-travel-this-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"What is an ideal classroom?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Image Credit: “Our esteemed Professor” by Robert Boscacci Via Sacred Frames<\/p><\/div>\n

For David Popalisky, professor of Theatre and Dance, the ideal classroom is California itself.\u00a0 Popalisky drew our attention (and the SF Chronicle’s) <\/a>with last summer’s course offering, “Walk Across California.”\u00a0Popalisky and Rebekah Boyd (English) led Santa Clara undergraduates on a 225-mile journey that began in San Francisco and ended in Yosemite.<\/p>\n

On the road, students were introduced to sites related to social justice, nature, and California history.<\/p>\n

If you want to see the evidence of rich learning from the “Walk Across California” course, read Communication major Robert Boscacci’s account on his personal blog, Sacred Frames.<\/a> \"studentsFor us at Teaching Scholar, Popalisky’s creative pedagogy and his students’ creative learning connects to the idea of the ideal classroom.<\/p>\n

Popalisky thought beyond the four walls of the traditional classroom space.\u00a0 Indeed, many faculty and staff members at Santa Clara work to provide rich experiences for SCU undergraduates: through study abroad, archaelogical digs, or community-based learning experiences.\u00a0 As we envision what we want next for our learning environments at Santa Clara, we might ask the following questions:<\/p>\n