Empowering Learners Strand
We see students as key stakeholders of the future, and as valuable co-creators of academic environments within universities. This strand aims to explore and develop initiatives, methods and structures in which students experience being actively involved in shaping their own education – and future – and through these empowering experiences, acquire the tools and mind-sets to be able to act as global citizens. We recognise the importance of a balance between staff- and student-led processes, and see students and staff working in partnership as key to the development of the Matariki Global Citizenship Programme.
Both faculty and students from MNU partner universities participated in the Global Citizenship Programme’s first workshop in April 2016, in which they explored critical notions of global citizenship, shared work and experiences, and collaboratively proposed structures and content for the emerging Global Citizenship Programme. This student-faculty model was a success, and will continue to be an important part of the programme’s activities.
LATEST Empowering Learners POSTS
Marketisation and ‘the college experience’
Photo by Michael Baker By Harry Cross In this blog post, I reflect on how marketisation in UK Higher Education is changing the nature of colleges at Durham University. I understand marketisation in HE
College, Nation and Beyond.
Originally published in the Ustinovian magazine, 12th November 2017. Text by Vicki Baker, photography by Iqbal Ahmed A catch up with our visitors from Uppsala University, Sweden. Living in the bubble of college life, it
Uppsala Nations vs Durham Colleges – Notes from an exchange visit to Sweden
By Pen-Yuan Hsing, Jamie Graham, Joe Troughton, Jess Rackham & Rebecca Bouveng Our Durham delegation representing St John’s, Ustinov and Trevelyan colleges recently visited Uppsala University in Sweden (April 2018). We went to explore
Empowering learners in the Neoliberal university
By José Luis Mateos. When browsing through the new –and rather sharp!– Matariki Global Citizenship (GC) website, one bumps into a myriad of interesting and encouraging mission and vision statements, especially from the perspective of
A Student Perspective: Student Empowerment
By Marea Colombo Student Empowerment Perhaps unsurprisingly, students are dedicated to creating opportunities for student empowerment. I think before continuing, it is important to recognize that although student empowerment does positively affect students, there are
Jessica – McCusker Centre for Citizenship Intern
University of Western Australia (UWA) The McCusker Centre for Citizenship offers structured, quality internships with not for profit, community and government organisations locally, regionally and globally. Internships are open to all currently enrolled UWA