Dr. Kyle Chambers
For the past two years, Kyle Chambers has been collaborating with the Children’s Museum of Southern Minnesota through his Developmental Psychology course. His students created interactive exhibits based on research and theory learned in Developmental Psychology and exhibited them either at the opening night of CMSM or for the CMSM play lab. Children and parents participate in these exhibits and learn valuable information about playing, nutrition, health and cognition. The community benefits from the students’ hard work and the students learn actively about concepts they may have otherwise just memorized. Gustavus is of course rewarded by the positive image of our students presented in the community and the media and community ties can be forged and strengthened.
Kyle has also involved his students with the Creative Play Place in St. Peter, where students test out the toys they created for their First Term Seminar called ‘Toy Design”. Once again there is a reciprocal relationship between the students and the community where both students and the community benefit from the involvement.
Kyle’s students are lucky to have such a creative, thoughtful professor for their classes who encourages learning outside of the classroom and helps them to envision how their academic work will benefit their future careers and the greater world
