English Instructor Academically Talented Youth Program, Western Michigan University Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States
Short Description: Gifted students harbor heightened awareness of and greater emotional sensitivity to global social issues. Learn how interdisciplinary philosophy curricula, with a special focus on philosophical absurdism, can bridge the gap between their personal understanding of complex topics like climate change, the consequences of AI, or political strife and their ability to integrate and respond productively and creatively to those issues.
Learning Objectives:
Describe curriculum design methods to connect students' personal experiences to foundational philosophical concepts via interdisciplinary humanities survey course
Identify concrete pedagogical strategies related to facilitating discussion and crafting projects specific to gifted learners in the humanities classroom
Demonstrate sample unit on philosophical absurdism to illustrate student learning outcomes in practice
