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Do you want to make your education societally engaged, or are you already doing so and wa nt to take it further? Then this session is for you! 

To start the academic year off well, we are bringing together a grow ing network of educators at VU who share a commitment to meaningful, societally engaged teaching on 8 September 12:00 - 13:00. "CSL presents: A Broader Mind in Practice" is designed not just as a learning session, but as a space where colleagues can find each other, see who else is working on this, and keep lines short.

Together we explore how Community Service Learning can help make your course truly A Broader Mind-proof, going beyond the surface to look at what it actually takes to design education that is transformative for students. That means grappling with real questions: How do you em bed reciprocity? How do you create the kind of learning experience th at genuinely challenges students to see themselves in relation to soc iety?

The session includes a short introduction and expert pers pectives from colleagues at VU who are already doing this work. One o f our experts is Frederique Demeijer, Assistant Professor of Transfor mative Learning at the Athena Institute and recent recipient of the C omenius Teaching Fellow grant for her work on embodied learning in tr ansdisciplinary education.

You will leave with:

If you are already part of the CSL network, this sessio n is yours. If you are new to CSL and curious, you are just as welcom e.

This page will be updated with speaker information, location, and programme details in the coming weeks.


DESCRIPTION: Do you want to make your education societally engaged, or are you already doing so and want to take it further? Then this sess ion is for you!  To start the academic year off well, we are bri nging together a growing network of educators at VU who share a commi tment to meaningful, societally engaged teaching on 8 Septemb er 12:00 - 13:00. "CSL presents: A Broader Mind in Practice" is designed not just as a learning session, but as a space where col leagues can find each other, see who else is working on this, and kee p lines short.Together we explore how Community Service Learning can help make your course truly A Broader Mind-proof, going beyond the su rface to look at what it actually takes to design education that is t ransformative for students. That means grappling with real questions: How do you embed reciprocity? How do you create the kind of learning experience that genuinely challenges students to see themselves in r elation to society?The session includes a short introduction and expe rt perspectives from colleagues at VU who are already doing this work . One of our experts is Frederique Demeijer, Assistant Professor of T ransformative Learning at the Athena Institute and recent recipient o f the Comenius Teaching Fellow grant for her work on embodied learnin g in transdisciplinary education.You will leave with:
  • Concre te ideas and ingredients to design or strengthen societally engaged e ducation in your course
  • New connections with colleagues acr oss VU who share the same ambition
  • We will work toward a co ncrete first step, something like a blueprint or roadmap, and we want to hear from you what would actually be most useful to take home.
If you are already part of the CSL network, this session is yo urs. If you are new to CSL and curious, you are just as welcome.This page will be updated with speaker information, location, and programme details in the c oming weeks.
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