Overview / Event description
Reframing Student Engagement through Compassion and Community Cultural Wealth
This dynamic online session will invite participants to reflect on their practice and learn new approaches to fostering compassionate and inclusive student engagement and environments.
The session will explore:
- Current frameworks for student engagement: what's useful and what can we leave behind
- Compassionate communication and pedagogies
- The Community Cultural Wealth model and how it can transform student engagement
- Decolonial perspectives on student engagement
- How we can foster a holistically inclusive student experience
- Deficit models and how we can move to an asset-based approach to student engagement
Mia Liyanage will draw on her expertise in decolonising the student experience, EDI and anti-racist curricula; and her lived experience as a former student and activist to facilitate a boundary-pushing and inclusive session. Educators will leave more equipped, and more empowered, to engage with their students using fresh perspectives.
Objectives
* Come away with strategies and approaches to fostering inclusive and compassionate student belonging
* Consider and review current practice, challenging assumptions and discovering the potential of new frameworks
* Reflect on specific incidents that have occurred on module / course and revisit based on what has been learned
* Set aside some plans and commitment for the new semester based on what has been learned – what will they change, what will they implement, what have they learned
* Pedagogy
* Learning environment
* Student engagement
Facilitator
Mia Liyanage (she/her) - facilitator, decolonisation advocate and Educational Developer: Climate, Racial and Social Justice at UAL
V1 respect individual learners and diverse groups of learners
V2 promote engagement in learning and equity of opportunity for all to reach their potential
V3 use scholarship, or research, or professional learning, or other evidence-informed approaches as a basis for effective practice
V4 respond to the wider context in which higher education operates, recognising implications for practice
V5 collaborate with others to enhance practice
K1 how learners learn, generally and within specific subjects
K2 approaches to teaching and/or supporting learning, appropriate for subjects and level of study
K3 critical evaluation as a basis for effective practice
K5 requirements for quality assurance and enhancement, and their implications for practice
A1 design and plan learning activities and/or programmes
A2 teach and/or support learning through appropriate approaches and environments
A3 assess and give feedback for learning
A4 support and guide learners
A5 enhance practice through own continuing professional development