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Competencies Training and Interactive Teaching Methods in Social Sciences

Competencies Training and Interactive Teaching Methods in Social Sciences. Elena Belokurova Center for European Studies European University at St. Petersburg Workshop on New Teaching Methods, University of Helsinki, February 16-17, 2006 . Plan . Why New Teaching Methods?

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Competencies Training and Interactive Teaching Methods in Social Sciences

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  1. Competencies Training and Interactive Teaching Methods in Social Sciences Elena Belokurova Center for European Studies European University at St. Petersburg Workshop on New Teaching Methods, University of Helsinki, February 16-17, 2006

  2. Plan • Why New Teaching Methods? • What are competencies? • How to teach competencies? • What are the main problems? • How to assess competencies?

  3. Political and social challenges: Technological and informational progress New public management “by outcome” Post-industrial economy Academic challenges: Bologna process (Bergen conference of European Ministers for HE, May 2005) Theory of Curriculum development (from the end) Why New Teaching Methods?

  4. What are competencies? “Cognitive abilities and skills available or learnable by individuals to solve certain problems as well as, linked to them, the motivational, volitional and social readiness and abilities to use the problem solutions in variable situations successfully and responsible” (Weinert 2001)

  5. Key competencies for social sciences • Critical thinking • Academic reading and writing • Communication / presentation • Leadership / moderation • Team work • Creativity / flexibility

  6. It is better to integrate it into all courses than to held one special course

  7. European teaching: Academic reading and writing Research Problems with practical training Russian teaching: Knowledge transfer Problems with research and practical training State of the art: problems

  8. Some European examples of Research training methodology • Learning research (Lehrforschung) • Problem based learning: • learning to learn • teacher as a facilitator • team work problem identification -> literature overview -> from reading to writing -> team writing -> presentation

  9. How to teach competencies? Civic – political – adults educationBenjamin Bloom Taxonomy • Knowledge • Comprehension • Application • Analysis • Synthesis • Evaluation

  10. Knowledge transfer • Lectures: interactive presentation • Associations building • Stories to schoolchildren • ?

  11. Comprehension • Team work: explaining to the others • Scientific conference simulation • Interactive presentations • Who is author and why does he write it? • ?

  12. Application • Tasks to apply technologies or methods: • EU institutions – lobbing strategies • Fundraising technologies • ?

  13. Analysis • Comparative statistical analysis • Comparison of cases • Advantages / disadvantages • Legislative base analysis (from parts to the general one) • ?

  14. Synthesis • Application of the whole knowledge • Simulations: simple (two sides negotiations) and complicated (many roles and complicated strategy-building) • Cases • ?

  15. Evaluation • Evaluation of the own work • Evaluation of the others’ work • ?

  16. Assessment of students’ performance: some alternative ways (ABILITY TO APPLY KNOWLEDGE, TO TRANSLATE IT FROM THEORETICAL LANGUAGE INTO PRACTICAL ONE) • Practical analytical report • Press-release, article • Press critic paper • Examination of media stories • Background paper for politicians • Political forecast

  17. Good luck!

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