Learning Journey Highlights

Core to STEMS² pedagogy is the engagement in and practice of “Learning Journeys.” Learning Journeys are shared experiences with a person, group, project, or place that can take the form of a tour, discussion, or service-learning project (O’Neill et al., 2016). Different from the idea of a field trip, which primarily represents singular learning experiences with unidirectional knowledge sharing, learning journeys are designed to engage participants in experiential, aʻo (reciprocal learning where in all moments one is the teacher and the learner) based learning experiences that build long-term relationships with the people and places where these experiences are shared.