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Gary N. Mc Closkey, O.S.A.
is Dean of the College, Chaired Professor
of Augustinian Pedagogy and Founding Director of the
Saint Augustine Institute for Learning and Teaching at
Merrimack College.
At Merrimack and internationally, he has developed a
focus on Augustinian Pedagogy as a distinctive
institutional competence.
Using principles and values from the writings of St.
Augustine of Hippo, he has identified 1) Transforming Experiences:
The Key to Learning,
2)
Searching
and Discovering: A Journey on the way to Understanding/ Meaning/Truth,
3) Engaged
in Community: Learning with Others, and
4)
Good Habits: The Building Blocks of
Learning as the core values of Augustinian Pedagogy.
His work on
developing materials
and programs that advance this model of pedagogy
continues. Fr. McCloskey has helped to develop (and his
work is included in)
the international compendium Basic elements of
Augustinian pedagogy (2006) E. Berdon (ed) Rome:
Pubblicazioni Agostiniane.
Beyond Augustinian
pedagogy, his
research has produced studies on instructional
technology, curriculum, educational policy, popular
culture and sustainability. He has co-authored three
books: Computers, Curriculum and Cultural Change: An
Introduction for Teachers (1st and 2nd
editions) and Schoolteachers and Schooling: Ethoses
in Conflict.
Fr. McCloskey’s higher education leadership work has
involved pedagogical, curricular, and programmatic
development as well as evaluation in the academic
and student life arenas. It has also included strategic
planning, as well as specialized and regional
accreditation. He has served on the governing boards
of Villanova University, Blessed
Stephen Bellesini Academy (a Nativity-model Middle
School) and the Washington Theological Consortium.
He is currently involved in the 2010 Catholic school
initiative of the Archdiocese of Boston.
Educational service among
ethnic/racial minorities led Fr. McCloskey to leadership
in the Augustinian Order's Social Justice initiatives from 1986-1992.
Within higher education his social
justice/diversity/Catholic Social Teaching work
on has focused on partnerships, educational technology
access and ecological sustainability in support of
institutional strategic goal attainment. In the
area of educational and technological access for diverse
higher education students, he has designed
programs that have received more than $4.7 million in
grant funding.
On the undergraduate level Fr. McCloskey has
taught courses in Augustinian Pedagogy, Teacher Education, Instructional
Technology, Women's Studies,
Sociology, Religious Studies and Ethics. On the
graduate level, Fr. McCloskey has taught courses in
Teacher Education, Instructional Technology, Ethics and
Pastoral Ministry. On the middle and secondary
school levels he has taught Religion, English and
Mathematics.
Born on Staten Island, New York 1951, Fr. McCloskey
professed religious vows in the Order of St. Augustine
in 1970. He earned his bachelor’s degree in the Honors
Program at Villanova University in 1973. He received an
M.A. in Theology from the Catholic University of America
in 1976, while also studying Semitic Languages. He was
ordained a Roman Catholic priest in 1977. Fr.
McCloskey completed his Ph.D. in Instructional
Leadership at the University of Miami in 1984 as well as
an M.A. in Computing in Education from Teachers College,
Columbia University in 1994.
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