Bringing Theory to Practice

Goals

Goal I
BTtoP is committed to supporting the research and programmatic development that will lead to greater understanding of how the practice and encouragement of particular pedagogies, and the educational structures that support engaged learning, affect learning outcomes, as well as outcomes that are aspects of student well-being and student civic development.

Goal II
BTtoP is committed to the objective of demonstrating how colleges and universities use insights and shared practices to build capacity for supporting and rewarding those persons practicing engaged forms of learning and pedagogies, and to thereby institutionalize the means that can be determined to promote the learning, the well-being, and the civic development of students.

Goal III
BTtoP aims to develop a field of practice, subject of study, and learning community exploring the connections among engaged learning, student mental health and well-being, and civic development.

Goal IV
BTtoP aims to encourage the renewal of the purposes of liberal education, including the integration of learning and discovery with deepened self-realization and the recognition of responsibility for active civic engagement.