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Theory
Book in Common
PSP
Staff
Common Terms
100
The theory argues that learning that takes place through participation.
What is Communities of Practice?
100
This person is the lead for the Book in Common.
Who is Camber?
100
This FYE event provides needed opportunities for “dialogic participation in which citizens engage in the interpersonal construction of knowledge and the sharing of diverse perspectives through reciprocal exchanges."
What is the Town Hall Meeting?
100
These people decorated the office for the holiday season. Name 2.
Who are Clarisse, Mat, Teresa, Khue, Katya?
100
The abbreviation is OCE.
What is the Office of Civic Engagement?
200
This institutional method is the model that FYE follows for First-Year Students.
What is Public Sphere Pedagogy?
200
The person is the author of Just Mercy.
Who is Bryan Stevenson?
200
A person who plays this role is like a man who has planned a picnic and must consider how, since he cannot influence the weather, he will adapt his plans in light of the rain.
What is a participant?
200
Who hates butterflies?
Who is Gina?
200
This term means to literally stand on the threshold or to be in the “doorway” between a prior identity and a new identity.
What is liminal (liminality)?
300
This term is a key feature in PSP, when members work together on shared endeavors using, negotiating, or creating practices to achieve and maintain community purpose and effectiveness.
What is Mutual Engagement?
300
Name at least 2 previous books from The Book in Common.
What is The Distance Between Us, The Yellow Birds, Unquenchable, Zeitoun,The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, The Soloist, Three Cups of Tea, Mountains Beyond Mountains, Never Let Me Go, True Notebooks, Plan B, The American Soul, Fast Food Nation, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, and The Moon by Whalelight.
300
This is the original department home for the Town Hall Meeting.
What is the English Department?
300
This person built the FYE website.
Who is Jon?
300
This term describes when a person uses past experiences to define specific associations.
What is negotiation of meaning?
400
In literature, this term is synonymous with the term scaffolding.
What is the zone of proximal development?
400
The Book in Common started on this year.
What is 2000?
400
These two theorists argue that learning takes place not through teaching but through situated participation in communities of practice.
Who are Jean Lave & Etienne Wenger?
400
These people are graduating this semester. Name at least 2.
Who are Jesus, Malcom, Amalia, Efren.
400
This person's role requires more experienced students to oversee many facets of event work and pass on event knowledge and practices to newer staff members.
Who is a lead?
500
This theory describes the age period from the late teens through the mid to late 20s (roughly ages 18-25).
What is emerging adulthood?
500
This person is the liaison to the dean for the Book in Common?
Who is Daniel Beaky?
500
This person argues that a student spectator is “like a man in a prison cell watching the rain out of the window”.
Who is John Dewy?
500
This person has exotic animals and insects displayed on their desktop screen.
Who is Thia Wolf?
500
In American popular media, this term has been coined to describe the alleged difficulties experienced by emerging adults as they try to find a place in the adult world.
What is a quarter life crisis?