Pedagogy
Pedagogy is about how teachers create learning opportunities. The focus is on learning and teaching is constructed, not as filling empty vessels but as creating opportunities, environments and experiences through which active learning takes place.
The IPHU approach to learning
- Start with the struggle for health
- Teach and learn in partnership
- Knowledge is for practice and purpose
- New ideas must be used
- Activism is an ethical commitment
- Learn new ways of being (as well as new facts and theories)
- Reflect, enquire, research
- Leadership: judgement which inspires; the courage to take risks
- Learn to listen to learn
- Steer our own learning
- Grow the skills and habits of life long learning
- Learn to teach; teach to learn
- Stay with the struggle for health
Different activities for different kinds of knowledge and different skills
Lecture discussions
Interactive panels
Reports from the field
Skills-focused workshops (skills, tools, techniques)
Fishbowl
Talk show
Moderated debate
Role play
Small group planning
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