Julia Byers, Robyn Flaum Cruz, and Louise Pascale
“Well-Being, Chocolate and You: The Promotion of Beneficence in Graduate Teaching and Learning,” focuses on the online and e-mail discussions between eight professors who exchanged ideas on the promotion of well-being in the classroom. “These (ideas) included our balance of holding the educational environment to match the ongoing needs of students and faculty; a heightened awareness of establishing the promotion of well-being that positively affects growth; articulating obstacles that get in the way of positive learning; and the importance of “chocolate” as a metaphor for being human.”
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Author bios |
Julia Byers, Ph.D., is the Facilitator, a Full Professor, and Director of Expressive Therapies Program, and Senior Ph.D. Advisor in the Ph.D. Expressive Therapies Program of Lesley University. She has taught undergraduate and graduate and doctoral university courses for more 26 years. Since 1994, Byers has been providing educational/clinical training programs in the West Bank, Gaza and Israel promoting the inclusion of the collective human condition for all psychologist, specialists and educators. Robyn Flaum Cruz, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor, and the current Coordinator of the Dance Therapy Program at Lesley University. She has taught doctoral students from areas as diverse as pharmacy, library sciences, psychology, higher education, and expressive therapies. Her particular areas of expertise are research methods and statistics. Louise Pascale, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Creative Arts in Learning Program at Lesley University. She has depth and breadth in teaching on-and off-campus for Lesley’s national outreach arts in education program. Her passion in education is facilitated in building community through music making. |