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 in the Department of Psychology and Counseling at Carlow University in Pittsburgh. In June, she will move on to a full faculty position 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
“I love sharing good stuff, so each month I’ll recommend something that I hope will help you teach, learn, connect, create, energize, or relax.”
JANUARY
Coral City Camera
I love this! Coral City Camera is a camera located on a reef near Miami, FL. This is a project led by artists and scientists who placed the rotating camera in spring 2020 to live stream from the reef 24/7. The stream, available on YouTube provides an ongoing glimpse of the reef — coral, fish, manatee, etc — I find it to be a terrific mini stress-break between meetings. Check it out: Coral City Camera. If you visit the site and don’t see much, check back later. When I started writing this post, there was little activity. I just checked back and there are several fish in sight, mostly interested in snacking on some mangrove pods.
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.
