Leveraging diversity to enhance students’ critical thinking

Sanne Larsen from CIP is co-arranging this workshop as part of the Special Interest Groups Bias Ware Teaching and Learning (BATL) and Teaching and Learning in the International Classroom (TLIC) under the Danish Network for Educational Development in Higher Education (DUN).

The workshop is in response to university teachers’ requests for ways to embrace diversity as leverage for enhancing students’ critical thinking. We start from the premise that intersectional diversity is a given and that navigating diverse perspectives is one of the key transformative competencies essential for the 21st century.

The workshop centres on the evolving role of critical thinking in the modern world, how diversity can enhance pedagogic strategies and how digital and other literacies can enable students to critically evaluate heterogenous discourses.

During the workshop, participants will hear from researchers, consultants, teachers and educational developers whose practices are enhanced by diversity. Participants will engage with real-life cases and be introduced to practical tools that can be implemented in their own classrooms.

The workshop takes place at SDU, Campus Odense.

For more information and registration (no later than 19 October) - see box to the right.