Andrew
Wiss,
PhD, EdM
Assistant Dean for Academic Innovation and Professorial Lecturer
George Washington University
Andrew is the Assistant Dean for Academic Innovation and a Professorial Lecturer in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the George Washington University (GW). His professional work, research, and teaching centers on the use of emerging technologies to enhance learning and the roles that design, motivation, and organizational structure can play in supporting individual and team performance. Dr. Wiss directs interprofessional education for the Milken Institute School of Public Health and is co-director of university-wide IPE efforts at GW.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
In his pivotal work, Pedagogy of the Oppressed Paola Freire (1968) argues that one cannot expect positive results from an educational methodology that fails to respect the particular experience of people from whom language and learning are born. Freire goes on to articulate that is from the voice of the marginalized that a "midwifery of liberating pedagogy" is created not for but with individuals in order to reverse a "culture of silence (p.33). To enable this kind of transformative teaching, learning, research, and service, the lived experiences through the voices of the marginalized must be…