Welcome to the IUSB Millennial Quilt Project

Here's your chance to celebrate and reflect your vision of IUSB in a way that the generations to come will be able to appreciate. Share your vision. Then share a little of your time working alongside a diverse group of people all doing the same thing!

Quilt as Metaphor, Quilt as Reality: A Tool for Addressing Interdisciplinary Learning and Issues of Diversity in the Classroom.

Presenters: Marsha Heck (Education) and Rebecca Torstrick (Anthropology)

 

This workshop will serve as a kick-off event for a year-long project, 1999-2000, that focuses on interdisciplinary learning issues of diversity, and processes for creating community. In this session, participants will be introduced to the larger theme of "Piecing Together Lives: Joining Threads of Community" and encouraged to consider ways in which their own teaching, service, and research can contribute to this campus-wide project.

To help participants begin this process, they will experience a hands-on quiltmaking activity and discussion that will model ways in which the metaphor of the quilt can be used to facilitate interdisciplinary learning activities and address issues of diversity in the classroom.