Jack Mezirow calls reflection transformative learning process, and John Dirkx calls it “nurturing soul as the aim of education” (Dirkx, Mezirow, 2006). Either way, reflection is essential to learning, and particularly learning from experience. It's...More

British-Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare CBE explains how art allows him to reconstruct truths by defying time and space. He points out to his interest in playing with the contexts of colonial era, mainly because these were spaces he was not allowed...More

I work in the global health education field, and along with many other terms, the concept of "decolonizing global health" has been a popular topic to discuss. Medicine's role in colonizing the world is not far from religion's (missionary) role. Much...More

I recently came across an initiative through the University of Michigan Museum of Arts (UMMA) that encourages the use of art as a reflective learning teaching and research tool. Departments at the University of Michigan or K-12 schools can request t...More