creative teaching approaches
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Workshop of Swampfire followed by this presentation to the Education for Sustainable Development in Higher Education Training Programme.TRANSCRIPT
Roddy Fox, Rhodes University, South Africa. [email protected]
International Training ProgrammeESD in Higher Education
Creative Teaching Approaches
Rhodes University 8 November 2012
http://simulations4africa.wordpress.com/
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Boyer, E.L. 1990: Scholarship Reconsidered. Priorities of the Professoriate. Jossey Bass: San Francisco.
Preliminary Ideas
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Behaviourist Cognitivist HumanistSocial andSituational
Learning theories
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Simulations in the Curriculum
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‘Simpler’ games
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‘Complex’ games 1
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‘Complex’ games 2
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Location of Games 1990-2010
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Curriculum context: Honours (level 4) 5 week module
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Educational theory context: experiential learning
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Feeling, creative emotional
Thinking, logical
African Catchment GameSwampfire
African Development GameKat Role Play
RiskmapKatAware
Reflection ExerciseFeedback and Free Writing
Concept MappingEssays
Reconnecting to literature
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What students learnt
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What students learnt I had always assumed that the challenge for a rural person was to uplift themselves and progress forwards. After this game I now understand that for many people the challenge is survival, successfully supporting oneself and family. I realise that (not recognizing) this paradigm shift from upliftment to survival is one of the major stumbling blocks of aid policies.
Thursday 15 November 12
Roddy Fox, Rhodes University, South Africa. [email protected]
What students learnt I had always assumed that the challenge for a rural person was to uplift themselves and progress forwards. After this game I now understand that for many people the challenge is survival, successfully supporting oneself and family. I realise that (not recognizing) this paradigm shift from upliftment to survival is one of the major stumbling blocks of aid policies.
The game highlighted the need for alternative options in order to tackle land degradation..…If land is to be left to fallow so that it can recover from use, then there has to be other income generating activities available for people to take part in.
Thursday 15 November 12
Roddy Fox, Rhodes University, South Africa. [email protected]
What students learnt I had always assumed that the challenge for a rural person was to uplift themselves and progress forwards. After this game I now understand that for many people the challenge is survival, successfully supporting oneself and family. I realise that (not recognizing) this paradigm shift from upliftment to survival is one of the major stumbling blocks of aid policies.
The game highlighted the need for alternative options in order to tackle land degradation..…If land is to be left to fallow so that it can recover from use, then there has to be other income generating activities available for people to take part in.
In our case, as refugees we only had two plots of land and this had to be used to feed ourselves. To survive, soil erosion preventative measures were not always adopted and this led to our land steadily declining from high to low productivity levels.
Thursday 15 November 12
Roddy Fox, Rhodes University, South Africa. [email protected]
What students learnt I had always assumed that the challenge for a rural person was to uplift themselves and progress forwards. After this game I now understand that for many people the challenge is survival, successfully supporting oneself and family. I realise that (not recognizing) this paradigm shift from upliftment to survival is one of the major stumbling blocks of aid policies.
The game highlighted the need for alternative options in order to tackle land degradation..…If land is to be left to fallow so that it can recover from use, then there has to be other income generating activities available for people to take part in.
In our case, as refugees we only had two plots of land and this had to be used to feed ourselves. To survive, soil erosion preventative measures were not always adopted and this led to our land steadily declining from high to low productivity levels.
I think risk aversion is the single most important concept that I have gained from this course, that is why I believe the catchment game is a vital teaching tool
Thursday 15 November 12
Roddy Fox, Rhodes University, South Africa. [email protected]
What students learnt I had always assumed that the challenge for a rural person was to uplift themselves and progress forwards. After this game I now understand that for many people the challenge is survival, successfully supporting oneself and family. I realise that (not recognizing) this paradigm shift from upliftment to survival is one of the major stumbling blocks of aid policies.
The game highlighted the need for alternative options in order to tackle land degradation..…If land is to be left to fallow so that it can recover from use, then there has to be other income generating activities available for people to take part in.
In our case, as refugees we only had two plots of land and this had to be used to feed ourselves. To survive, soil erosion preventative measures were not always adopted and this led to our land steadily declining from high to low productivity levels.
I think risk aversion is the single most important concept that I have gained from this course, that is why I believe the catchment game is a vital teaching tool
What this (game) highlighted in terms of rural development was that local communities are dynamic and internally differentiated, and their environmental priorities and natural resource claims are positioned differently and governed by varying institutional dynamics, as well as differing and sometimes conflicting power relations.
Thursday 15 November 12
Roddy Fox, Rhodes University, South Africa. [email protected]
What students learnt I had always assumed that the challenge for a rural person was to uplift themselves and progress forwards. After this game I now understand that for many people the challenge is survival, successfully supporting oneself and family. I realise that (not recognizing) this paradigm shift from upliftment to survival is one of the major stumbling blocks of aid policies.
The game highlighted the need for alternative options in order to tackle land degradation..…If land is to be left to fallow so that it can recover from use, then there has to be other income generating activities available for people to take part in.
In our case, as refugees we only had two plots of land and this had to be used to feed ourselves. To survive, soil erosion preventative measures were not always adopted and this led to our land steadily declining from high to low productivity levels.
I think risk aversion is the single most important concept that I have gained from this course, that is why I believe the catchment game is a vital teaching tool
What this (game) highlighted in terms of rural development was that local communities are dynamic and internally differentiated, and their environmental priorities and natural resource claims are positioned differently and governed by varying institutional dynamics, as well as differing and sometimes conflicting power relations.
It made me think about how we as environmental professionals even begin to address the problems of rural development and land degradation when we are dealing with such a myriad of problems. Where do priorities lie when addressing the problems related to rural development and land degradation? This is a question that I definitely cannot answer.
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To return …
and so …
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Nested Approach
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Simulations and Complex Adaptive Systems
• Since Chapman developed his first Green Revolution Game our knowledge of systems and complexity has developed.
• African Catchment Game can be understood as a Complex Adaptive System– Simplification of reality with all elements of a
CAS–CAS used by our own senior students to
understand ACG, gives different understanding of space
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Wikimedia Commons 2010 Complex Adaptive Systems [Online] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Complex-adaptive-system.jpg [Available: 25/10/2010]
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• Two game runs of Swampfire – models multiple concurrent partnerships in HIV/AIDs diffusion• 2, 7, 12, 17, 22, 27, 32, 37 start with AIDS• 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 28, 32, 36 start with gloves/condoms• Players shake hands, collect autographs 1, 2 or 3 times• Some are told they may ignore instructions• Different patterns are emergent
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Simulations and Futures Studies
RESEARCH
FUTURES RESEARCH
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Forecasting the future• Consensus (eg Delphi).• Trend extrapolation.• Historical analysis and analogy.• Systematic generation of alternative paths to the future.• Simulation games are different, they allow you a safe space in which
to play out alternative forecast or backcast futures.
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Postscript: Quo vadis?
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