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II. Session 1 · Track A: Designing Service-Learning for Democratic Competences Location: F21/02.18 | |
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Team-based work in collaborative settings with academic instructors as learning facilitators – potentials and challenges for learning in Higher Education 1: Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, Germany; 2: Universität Hildesheim The contribution reflects on the experiences of a collaborative project in which students developed educational material in partnership with the initiative “Konsumkritische Stadtführung Bamberg” (engl. sustainable city tours). The collaboration aimed to link the theoretical knowledge on education for sustainable development with the in-depth practical application in a concrete project. By developing pedagogical material on various topics, the students acquired key competencies for teaching education for sustainable development (e.g. Rieckmann, 2012) and reflected on the challenges associated with sustainable development, such as e.g. how to deal with the overall complexity of the topics; how to address normativity without imposing a certain view and how encourage critical thinking and action-oriented competencies (Scheunpflug, 2023; Taube, 2023). Working in teams, the students developed and presented the material, repeatedly discussing their process and the difficulties encountered. The project became meaningful for the students because the material they developed was relevant to an actual project in the field of practice. They were able to actively contribute to shaping the educational landscape in Bamberg and engage with the vision of a more sustainable and future-oriented way of life. This contribution shortly presents the project and reflects on challenges and potential regarding (1) the didactic method of team based work and (2) the role of the academic instructors. The entire seminar, conceptualised as part of a service-learning project, was based on the idea of learning as a self-directed, reflective process (e.g. Brown, 2015). Therefore, our role was to support the students’ learning process by providing feedback, suggestions and a space for open and fruitful discussion. Within the workshop we will reflect on potentials and challenges of this conceptualisation of learning as a self-directed, reflective process in a collaborative setting and what it means for the academic instructors, particularly in the field of education for sustainable development and Higher Education. | |