MEET DR. HARRIET SCHWARTZ
Dr. Harriet Schwartz is an educator and researcher based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and the author of Connected Teaching: Relationships, Power, and Teaching in Higher Education.
ABOUT DR. SCHWARTZ
Harriet L. Schwartz, PhD, is Professor of Relational Practice and Higher Education in Antioch University’s PhD in Leadership and Change program.
Harriet’s scholarly interests include teaching as relational practice, emotion and teaching, and qualitative research methods. She is the author of Connected Teaching: Relationship, Power, and Mattering in Higher Education (Stylus, 2019) and has published two New Directions for Teaching and Learning sourcebooks, co-editing Teaching and Emotion (with Jennifer Snyder-Duch) and editing Interpersonal Boundaries in Teaching and Learning. She also writes in the public domain, addressing social justice issues including racism, sexism, and homophobia.
Harriet is lead scholar for education as relational practice and a leadership team member for the International Center for Growth in Connection, the intellectual home of Relational Cultural Theory and related research and practice.
In addition, she mentors doctoral students in qualitative research methods at Antioch University where she earned her PhD in Leadership and Change. She also holds an MS in counseling and a certificate in student personnel from Springfield College. Prior to pursuing a teaching career, she worked in student affairs at Carnegie Mellon University, Bard College, and University of Hartford.
HARRIET RECOMMENDS
“Check out this month’s recommendation!”
DECEMBER
Curb-cut effect
“Inclusivity helps everyone whether you notice it or not, and most of the time, we don’t notice it,”
-Ahmed Khalifa
What do closed captioning and football huddles have in common? They are both examples of the curb cut effect. This is a very cool concept! The idea is that adjustments or creations made initially to support people with disabilities end up helping many other people without disabilities. Ahmed Khalifa discusses curb cut effect in this episode.
HARRIET L. SCHWARTZ PHOTOGRAPHY
“I began taking photos as a kid and several cameras later, I am still at it. I took a photography class in junior high and have attended a few seminars since, but for the most part my quest to improve as a photographer is self-directed. I continue to learn by engaging with photography articles, books, and videos and exploring the strengths, style, and choices of others’ good work (specifically, the work that I find most compelling!). In the last few years, I’ve been doing a lot of macro (close-up) photography and more recently have been working with more abstraction.”
This collection focuses on orange and yellow in the natural world.
