Experimental Pedagogy: Reflection Workshop

We all want our students to reflect on their learning, but why does it so often feel like a box-ticking exercise? Students tell you what they think you want to hear - or in the age of AI, they ask ChatGPT to tell you what they think you want to hear - you check for ILOs, and everyone walks away feeling like reflection is a big waste of time. For 3 years, I’ve been coordinating one of the most popular courses in the Masters in Societal Transitions at Erasmus University - the Reflection Track, a 6 month course exclusively focused on reflection. How did we manage to turn something that students usually hate into a profoundly transformative, life-changing experience for students? How is it possible to foster a transformative reflection pedagogy in the context of climate collapse and geopolitical breakdown?

In this workshop, we’ll break down the philosophy behind the multi-level reflection method of Experimental Pedagogics, take you through some of the tools we use (journaling with dialectic feedback, articulated learning reflection), and some of the ways in which students react to this.

Workshop host: Ginie Servant-Miklos is the designer of the Experimental Pedagogics framework and Education for Social Change approach, and the author of Pedagogies of Collapse. She is currently an Associate Professor at Erasmus University Rotterdam, Senior Fellow of the Comenius Network and Associate Member of the Club of Rome. For more information you can visit this website.

Please note that spaces are limited to 30 participants!