Lynn Englund
Lecturer
Ph.D., University of Minnesota
Family, youth, and
community
245A Peik Hall
612-624-1055
engl8813@umn.edu
Office hours: by appointment
Preferred method of contact: e-mail
My interests in family, youth, and community education involves creating physical, emotional, and psychological safe "spaces" for diverse individuals to interact and get to know each other. I am especially interested in educational processes that reliably help individuals to create and maintain these safe spaces in which mutual trust and respect can be built among participants and participants experience learning with and from each other. I often use a learning/story circle process in my teaching and work with groups to elicit narratives of direct experience that open up and enrich conceptual areas for discussion and to stimulate critical reflection and insight among participants, as well as to foster individual and group knowledge and action. I am also interested in using story telling processes combined with self-reflection and reflective writing for personal growth as a form of documentation of learning.
I am one of a team of instructors who developed and have taught (since 2002) a month-long residential living-learning experience off campus, Phil 4326—Lives Worth Living: Questions of Self, Vocation, and Community, also known as Philosophy Camp. I also assist in the instruction of a one-week professional development opportunity associated with this course for educators, artists, college and university staff, human development professionals, and retirees who share an interest in the pedagogical approach (see Phil 4327—Catching Lives Worth Living: Participation in the Growth of a Living-Learning Community).
Classes taught
- CI 5900—Special topics in family, youth, and community: Learning Circles
- CI 5900—Special topics in family, youth, and community: Reflections on family life
- CI 5902—Family education perspectives
- CI 5914—Education for family communication
- CI 5942—Everyday Experiences of Families
- CI 8902—Family, youth, and community in social, political, and economic context
Revised August 2009
