TLISI 2023: Exploring Third Spaces for Transformation
In: auth:; (2023)
Online
videoRecording
Zugriff:
Our presentation explores the role and application of the concept ‘third spaces’ within two courses aimed to redesign experiential learning experiences within our institutional context. Our institution launched specific initiatives to promote a new campus location seven miles away from the main campus. In order to understand community perceptions and how to engage academic staff and students in building experiential learning opportunities we decided to enact a ‘third space’ lens (McAlpine & Hopwood, 2009) on two courses/modules where students became researchers, designers, and consultants. ‘Third Spaces’ can be defined as integrative experiences that bring together academics (faculty, students and staff) with industry, community and government partners to create new sites of interaction that are characterized by: wicked challenges, traversing institutional boundaries, valuing multiple perspectives for mutual learning, and valuing students as partners. Our central questions asked how students operated within these transdisciplinary spaces, what they learned in acting as partners, and how the process of designing for transformation changed their own perceptions on their learning journeys. We will structure the session through two interconnected case studies conducted in Spring of 2023. The two “third spaces” are credit-bearing elective courses titled The Internship as a Design Problem and The University as a Design Problem. Both courses feature key characteristics of third spaces (Kligyte et al., 2019) such as engaging multiple perspectives on authentic problems in order to address systemic, institutional change. To illustrate the two courses, we will incorporate anonymous examples of student work and a brief outline of a course session in which students assembled to discuss the role of third spaces in higher education. Based on our initial review of coursework and reflective analysis, we wish to illustrate what these spaces afford for student learning and for transformational change within institutional ...
Titel: |
TLISI 2023: Exploring Third Spaces for Transformation
|
---|---|
Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | McGowan, Susannah ; Martin, Noah ; Njaka, Ijeoma ; Radomsky, Wesson |
Link: | |
Quelle: | auth:; (2023) |
Veröffentlichung: | 2023 |
Medientyp: | videoRecording |
Schlagwort: |
|
Sonstiges: |
|