Registration closes: Norm-Critical Pedagogy (NKP)

Registration closes September 7.

Course period: 2023-09-21 - 2023-11-09. (English) Register here

Course description

Norm-Critical Pedagogy: Learning Norm-Critical Skills for teaching in Higher Education (NKP)

Target group

 All university teachers.

Extent

60 hours, whereof approx. 15 hours scheduled time

Content

In this course we will investigate norms and biases that can circulate in an academic learning environment. Such norms might be involving gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, class. We will address how these social categories might affect educational practices between the teacher and students as  well as among the students themselves. The course focuses on practical methods and tools that will help you as teachers to learn a self-reflexive and confident practice with the aim to create inclusive classrooms.

The course consists of three components:

1. Input and reflection: thematic interactive lectures on theoretical starting points from critical pedagogies, practical implications for teaching and examples of good practice and common pitfalls.
2. Practice: developing and applying a norm-critical approach/tool in teaching (personally or analyzing practices/experiences of other teachers)
3. Follow up and evaluation: reflection seminars assessing the implementation of skills and re-evaluating teaching practice in light of the course experiences.

Learning outcomes

After the course, the participants should:

1. Be familiar with and able to critically reflect on the theoretical foundations of norm-critical pedagogy.
2. Have tools for revision of teaching activities from a norm-critical perspective.
3. Be able to facilitate a norm-critical analysis within the classroom.

Literature

Course literature will be provided by the course leader

Course coordinators

• Wibke Straube, Senior lecturer