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Decolonising the Curriculum via Student Co-Creation

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Decolonising the curriculum is an important and increasingly prevalent aspect in our role as educators. It is our duty to ensure we present a diverse and global account of academic content, teaching methods, and assessment. This blog post introduces an approach to how we might authentically and genuinely diversify our teaching delivery and methods of assessments by working alongside students on a project that designed an essay question and accompanying workshop.  

The Case for Embracing Linguistic and Cultural Diversity in Teaching and Learning

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Our University commonly describes itself as ‘international’. While internationalisation can be reflected in research endeavours and staffing demographics, recognition of diversity should move beyond surface-level considerations toward how students’ diverse backgrounds interact with and emerge in learning spaces. We therefore launched the project ‘Embracing Linguistic and Cultural Diversity in Teaching’.  What did you do? Why...

Writing Retreats: Encouraging students to develop the skills needed to succeed

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Against the backdrop presented by sector wide concerns around students’ mental health and well-being (Remskar et al, 2022), it is important to recognise how dissertation modules for independent learning could appear daunting for some students. They may not have previously experienced this mode of teaching and learning, and/or may lack the skills, experience, knowledge, motivation,...

Co-collaboration with students to develop professional literacy in a co-curricular context

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Working together with students, we organised co-curricular activities to enhance professional competencies and equip our students with the skills to stand out in the job market upon graduation. In the process we also built a strong sense of community.   What did you do, why did you do it? Multiple co-curricular activities (those that run parallel...

Using Flipgrid video to get students talking asynchronously

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Short Flipgrid videos from students are used to encourage participation and communication in an enjoyable and convenient way. Using a link or join code, students are able to upload videos easily and interact with other students’ contributions.   What did you do? Why did you do it?  To maintain a communicative approach to teaching in the Language Centre despite being online, we used Flipgrid to...

Relating and being authentic in online learning

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This initiative was for students at Masters level studying counselling and psychotherapy. Developing self and intersubjective awareness through digital learning is a very different proposition as there are many psychological differences in how we exist and interact online. This initiative offered an introduction to these issues from an expert and discussion space at the start of the programme.   What...