{"id":34,"date":"2013-08-22T23:05:52","date_gmt":"2013-08-22T23:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/lawson\/wordpress\/?page_id=34"},"modified":"2014-12-24T18:55:49","modified_gmt":"2014-12-24T18:55:49","slug":"professional-philosophy-practices","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/lawson\/professional-philosophy-practices\/","title":{"rendered":"Professional Philosophy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Teaching: Approaches & Goals<\/strong><\/p>\n

My courses develop the same themes and approaches as my research.\u00a0 At both undergraduate and graduate levels, I incorporate theoretical and empirical material that illustrate and build understandings of inequality, poverty and feminist care ethics across the Americas.\u00a0 My courses are designed to encourage students to think of the Americas as integrally connected through historical and current political, economic and cultural relationships.<\/p>\n

I approach teaching and learning as student-centered activities, believing that students must be committed to the design of their own education.\u00a0 Undergraduate students in my classes engage in active-learning in a variety of settings, including group work in lab sections and also through service-learning.\u00a0 I encourage graduate students to engage their research ideas through empirical fieldwork, and to gain hands-on experience with proposal writing and professional publishing.\u00a0 Ultimately, the goal of my teaching is to engage students as citizens and as intellectuals who are addressing some of the pressing issues of their times.<\/p>\n

For more information, please refer to my\u00a0courses<\/a>\u00a0page.<\/em><\/p>\n

Administrative Roles<\/strong><\/p>\n

I have served in a variety of administrative positions including my current service as Director of University Honors and formerly as department chair,\u00a0 member of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on the Geographical Sciences, President of the Association of American Geographers.\u00a0 I believe that administrative work is an important element of professional service for my department, our campus and also in the discipline at large.\u00a0 In each of these positions, I have worked collaboratively to identify areas of importance and to guide initiatives that were important to the collectives with which I worked.<\/p>\n

As department chair, I worked with members of the department to identify several important initiatives.\u00a0 For example, we underwent a thoughtful and successful ten year review process.\u00a0 We worked to revision our graduate program; build a vision for our future development and community outreach activities; design and engage in a strategic planning process; build our web presence to communicate widely about the department; and build on an ongoing curriculum assessment project.\u00a0 In all of these projects, members of the department worked together to foster open communication, to consult widely and to create an environment that is supportive of good ideas, from whichever quarter.\u00a0 From all of this work I have learned that service involves trying to build a \u2018culture of possibilities\u2019 that allows creative people to do their best work.<\/p>\n

For more information on my administrative roles and positions, please refer to my\u00a0Curriculum Vitae<\/a>
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