Message from Centre for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning
Date: 5 November 2021 (Friday)
Time: 12:30pm – 1:30pm
Venue: Zoom
Speaker: Dr Giedre Kligyte, Lecturer, Transdisciplinary School, University of Technology Sydney
Session Facilitator: Dr Peter Lau, Lecturer, Centre for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning, HKU
Register here: https://www2.cetl.hku.hk/cetlevents/regist/471/registEvent.php?eventId=471
Abstract
What role does partnership ethos play in transdisciplinary education contexts where students, educators and industry, community or government partners learn together by working on real-world challenges?
Multiple opportunities for learning from different perspectives, divergent ways of seeing, thinking about and acting in the world can be created in transdisciplinary third space – space where learning takes place in between disciplines, roles and organisations. This type of learning can lead to significant, even transformational, learning outcomes for those involved, whereby everyone, not only students, stand to gain from the experience.
In this presentation, I draw on the examples from the award-winning Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation degree at University of Technology Sydney, Australia, to examine the conditions required to foster mutual learning in transdisciplinary partnerships.
About the Speaker
Dr Giedre Kligyte is a Senior Lecturer within Transdisciplinary School (TD School) at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia. Giedre’s research is focused on transdisciplinary collaboration practices in universities and industry or community organisations. In her work, she explores how different perspectives and relationships across organisational roles, silos and disciplinary divisions can be creatively leveraged to create ‘third spaces’ – spaces where difference, experimentation and co-creation are embraced to stimulate mutual learning, new ways of thinking and creativity. At TD School, Giedre has worked on the curriculum design of nearly all transdisciplinary degree programs. She has also jointly led and contributed to a number of research projects calling for transdisciplinary collaboration expertise.
Click here for more details regarding the Students as Partners (SaP) Series.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Ms. Lavina Luk at ytluk89@hku.hk
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