Promoting and Fostering Higher Education Student’s Agency: Goals and Practices, 10th August 2017
Thursday, 06 July 2017
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Professor Stephen Billett, Griffith University
Promoting students to be active, intentional and interdependent learners has been a long-standing goal for higher education. Fostering that capacity is important for: effective study; reconciling experiences across educational, workplace and community settings; transitioning to working life and becoming effective ‘lifelong learners’. So, how should we seek to develop further higher students’ capacities as agentic learners? Through a structured, but highly participatory process, this workshop seeks to explore and elaborate some means by such an outcome might be approached. Following a brief presentation offering some ways for considering the goals for and personal and institutional practices within higher education, participants will consider how higher educational environments can be designed, enacted and experienced in ways that are generative of graduates as agentic learners.
The four questions directing this activity are:
- What are the premises for progressing the educational project of securing agentic learners through higher education?
- What kinds of activities and interactions within higher education institutions are likely to be generative of enhanced student agency?
- What kinds of experiences outside of those in educational institutions would be helpful to be generative of this agency?
- In what ways should students engage to develop and deploy such capacities?
Presenter:
Professor Stephen Billett
Date: Thursday, 1oth August 2017
Time: 09.30am to 1.30pm
Location: Edith Cowan University Joondalup campus, building 34, room 545
Morning tea and lunch provided
To register visit the http://acen.edu.au/promoting-and-fostering-higher-education-students-agency/
More information
Contact the Heather Pate h.pate@ecu.edu.au or Centre for Learning and Teaching clt@ecu.edu.au