KEYNOTE WORKSHOP LEADERS

David Thornton Moore

David Thornton Moore has been a researcher and practitioner in the field of experiential learning since 1972, when as a teacher in an alternative high school he began supervising internship students. After earning a doctorate in Learning Environments from the Harvard Graduate School of Education in 1977, he began a long series of ethnographic studies of high school and college interns in which he developed a detailed framework for understanding the pedagogy of experience: the social organization of learning processes in workplace settings. His work on those studies has been published in such places as the Harvard Educational Review, Anthropology and Education Quarterly, and The Journal of Workplace Learning, and Learning Inquiry; with Thomas Bailey and Katherine Hughes of Columbia University, he co-authored Working Knowledge: Work-based Learning and Education Reform (Routledge Falmer, 2004).

He has presented talks and led workshops on experiential education at such institutions as Princeton University, Williams College, Queens College/CUNY, and the New College of the University of Alabama. Recently, he has been studying teaching from experience: the ways in which school-based educators help interns and service-learning students process and reflect on their field-based experiences. Since 1982, Moore has been on the faculty of the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University, where he also served for six years as the Associate Dean.

Victoria Marsick

Victoria Marsick is a professor of Education in the Adult Learning and Leadership program, Department of Organization and Leadership, at Teachers College, Columbia University. Marsick also is the co-director of the J.M. Huber Institute for Learning in Organizations. The Institute was established in 1999 to advance the state of knowledge and practice for learning and change in organizations. Professor Marsick's scholarly interests revolve around informal workplace learning, team learning, action learning, strategic organizational learning and knowledge management, learning organizations and international models of management.

She currently teaches courses on adult learning and development (theory and practice), workplace learning, and research methods. She leads a faculty mentoring initiative and is a learning coach in a project-learning-based professional development and mentoring program for school principals, the Cahn Fellows. She sits on the Board of Governors of the Center for Creative Leadership, and is a member of a European-funded network of scholars interested in democratic practices as learning opportunities that is currently examining social learning in cities.

Previous Institutes

July 2007 - Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts

July 2006 - Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts

July 2005 - Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts