“As adult educators … we must harness the natural self, reconcile the experiential self, serve the practical self, and awaken the critical self within our middle life learners.”
N. E. Taylor (2008) in The Confounding Dimensions of the Learner in Middle Life
ISIS 2008 hears diverse perspectives on policing from community panel
The 21 members of ISIS hosted a unique gathering of citizens during their first residential workshop in Toronto in late February. The three-hour interactive panel session was designed with two purposes in mind: to gather diverse community perspectives on the question “police capacity to do what?”, and to provide an experiential development challenge to the team members as they honed their skills at qualitative and interpretive inquiry. The panel of eight guests included a former Solicitor General, two leading business figures, a City Editor from a major media chain, a health-care Diversity expert, and a Principal, counselor and student representative from an inner-city high school. Through a candid and at times surprising exchange, participants from both sides of the encounter deemed the exercise highly successful and a “powerful, mutual learning experience”.