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Alec MacLeod is an Associate Professor
in Undergraduate Studies and the School
for Consciousness and Transformation. He
received his undergraduate education at
Hampshire College where he studied philosophy
and fine arts. Alec also holds a Master
of Fine Arts in sculpture from Stanford
University (1983) and has studied information
science at the University of California
at Berkeley.
His primary areas of preparation are in
the studio arts, art theory and information
science. His current work in the area of
cultural studies includes the visual culture
of the internet (especially implicit assumptions
in the design of graphical user interfaces),
representations of "the Other"
in U.S. colloquial English, and visual explorations
of theories of perception.
As an educator, Alec has used participatory
collaborative methods of inquiry to explore
the ways in which pedagogical approaches
can assist learners in examining and changing
their assumptions about race and ethnicity.
He has trained as a multicultural trainer
at Equity Institute and Visions, Inc. A
member of a research collective, the European-American
Collaborative Challenging Whiteness, he
has participated in an inquiry into white
identity and ways in which white people
can become more aware of their identity
and its implications. The group has presented
its work at educational conferences and
recently authored a chapter in the anthology,
Collaborative Inquiry as a Strategy for
Adult Learning (San Francisco, Calif.:
Jossey-Bass, 2002).
Alec has almost twenty years of experience
as a facilitator of learning in higher education
as a classroom teacher and as an administrator.
He was a member of the design team for the
undergraduate cohort based degree completion
program and the inaugural director of that
program. In addition to his interdisciplinary
courses in the Undergraduate program, Alec
teaches courses in visual thinking, aesthetics
and visual culture. He is also a co-facilitator
of the Integral Visions course in the School
for Consciousness and Transformation.
Bachelor's
Completion Program
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