Veranstaltung: A31-2502 | Educational Myths Debunked

Course Description

You’re a visual learner. We only use 10% of our brains. Best teaching is value neutral. There are multiple intelligences. Educational myths often appear in the form of phrases and platitudes. Although many of these questionable beliefs about educational phenomena lack empirical evidence, they are sometimes widespread, persist, and have somehow managed to become everyday knowledge (De Bruyckere et al., 2020; Sinatra & Jacobson, 2019). Although these myths sometimes blossom from a seed of a fact, they can be problematic, especially when policymakers, educators, or researchers unconsciously act on them, or even spread them.

Accordingly, in this course we focus on identifying, understanding and challenging prevailing myths in higher education to foster our individual professionalization and to become a critically reflective teacher / reflective practitioner.

You will …

• reflect on your own experiences with educational myths,
• understand why these questionable beliefs can be problematic for various stakeholders, including yourself,
• know about prevailing educational myths in teaching and learning, their characteristics and causes,
• learn about and develop strategies and tools to deal with these seemingly never dying zombie concepts in a professional and evidence-based manner.

Organisation

Enrolment (externer Link, öffnet neues Fenster) starts August 1st