Ko nipa Africa! – Teach about Africa! Challenging stereotypes about Africa

Designed for three age groups, Ko Nipa Africa! – Teach about Africa! awareness-raising and sensitization education program is aimed at developing social competencies, especially empathy, social sensitivity, and tolerance in childhood. In addition, its main task is to transform the misconceptions and prejudices about Africa present in Hungary with active learning. The series of programs seeks to bring the diverse cultural, natural, and historical values of the African continent closer to the younger generation using the approach of global education, and the method, and tools of experiential pedagogy. Since the founding of the program series in 2012, it has been tested, implemented, and reworked in dozens of educational institutions, and several studies have demonstrated positive changes in students' thinking as the result of sensitization.

Towards a Pluralistic and Experiential Teaching of Economics for the Agenda 2030. the SDSN France Textbook

The goals of the Agenda 2030 require a significant effort to educate and train new generations on sustainability issues. This article presents an initiative in favor of the evolution of the contents and the pedagogy of economics at the University level. We present the new “Ecological Money and Finance” textbook developed by SDSN France. We detail the assumptions, contents and learning objectives proposed in this new textbook. Then, we describe how it can be used in the framework of an experiential pedagogy of economics, taking as a case study the fundamental economics course of the Grande Ecole program at KEDGE BS.

Walking Pedagogy for Science Education and More-Than-Human Connection

This literary-visual métissage weaves together stories, scholarship and photographs. What can be unearthed—science education, embodied knowledge, environmental ethics—when we walk on the land? Embodied and sensorial engagement fosters relational and enlivening educational experiences. Whether preschool or post-doc, direct sense experience offers not only active and experiential pedagogy, but also a spiritual attunement with the natural world. Now, amid the climate crisis and screen fatigue pandemic, such Earth resonance is of utmost import. Let us walk through a snowy forest, ponder what counsel our shoeless feet (and David Abram) afford us, and envision the learning environment as an emergent and adaptable opportunity for connection and wonder.

Impact Assessment of a Methodological Program in Dance in Hungarian Public Education

In the EFOP-3.2.6-16 Tender framework to Facilitate the Development of Student’ Skills in the Public Education System, the Hungarian Dance University developed a program with methodological guides and teacher training programs for ballroom dance, classical ballet, commercial dance, folk dance, and modern dance education. The training, held in 2018 and 2019, was attended by 126 graduate dance teachers from 57 public education institutions, mainly primary art schools. In this research, those teachers’ experiences are examined who included the methodological program in the 2019/2020 school year. For data collecting, an online questionnaire of 27 items was used. The questions covered three major topics: (1) opinion of teachers about the training; (2) incorporating new methodological materials into everyday practice; (3) the relationship between differentiation, talent management, and disadvantage compensation with the new methodology. Most teachers (n=103) have already incorporated the new methods into their practice, primarily for diversity, innovation, and experiential pedagogy. Still, there have also been teachers who have modified the original methodology to implement differentiation, talent management, and disadvantage compensation more effectively.

Analytical Hierarchy Process Applied to Pedagogical Method Selection Problems

The purpose of this study is to apply multicriteria decision-making (MCDM) methods, namely, analytic hierarchy process (AHP) for selecting the best pedagogical method able to develop the soft skills required by the job market with respect to the preference level assigned by employers to each soft skill. The evaluated pedagogical strategies are experiential pedagogy (EP), project-based learning (PjBL), problem-based learning (PBL), serious games (SG), Harvard case method (HCM), and lecture course (LC). Ten criteria (soft skills) were identified from a previous quantitative content analysis of engineering job ads in Morocco in order to identify the extent to which soft skills are required by employers. These skills include communication, efficiency, adaptability, decision-making, innovation, problem resolution, team working, project management, professional responsibility, and using technology in engineering practice. After pairwise comparisons between all the evaluated alternatives with respect to each criterion, results show that experiential pedagogy is the optimal solution to develop the soft skills demanded by the job market.

Recepciones de la pedagogía experiencial de Dewey en diversos enfoques metodológicos: el valor añadido del aprendizaje-servicio

John Dewey es la personalidad más representativa de la pedagogía norteamericana. Podríamos decir que los aportes hechos en el campo de la Educación han sido innumerables, destacando el “pragmatismo” como uno de los más valiosos. La lectura de su obra supone una fuente inagotable de ideas y propuestas que merecen ser atendidas. El enfoque de la “Pedagogía experiencial” ha propiciado diversas propuestas educativas que vienen desarrollándose en este último siglo en nuestras universidades: el Aprendizaje Basado en Problemas, el Aprendizaje Basado en Retos, etc., lo cual hace notar la actualidad del mismo. Citamos aquí algunas de las teorías que de algún modo influyeron en el pensamiento de Dewey, para después atender a la propia proyección que este autor y su pensamiento han tenido en Europa y Latinoamérica. Nos acercaremos también a algunas de las propuestas educativas que mencionábamos y que, sin lugar a dudas, se fundamentan en varios de los elementos sustanciales a esa ´Pedagogía experiencial´, los principios de continuidad e interacción, o la proyección social de toda experiencia, entre otros. En relación a este último, destacaremos el Aprendizaje-Servicio, como una propuesta de especial relevancia en el desarrollo de los valores y la conducta prosocial. John Dewey is the most representative personality in American Pedagogy. Whether his contributions to the field are endless, “Pragmatism” stands out as a especially relevant one. The reading of his work is an inexhaustible source of ideas and proposals that deserve to be explored. Dewey’s Experiential Pedagogy has left a mark on various educational proposals that have being developed in the last century in our universities: problem-based learning, challenge-based learning, etc. This demonstrates the current validity of Dewey’s approach. The work presented here is a review of the theories that somehow influenced the thinking of Dewey. We explore the projection this author and his ideas have had in Europe and Latin America. We also cover some of the previously-mentioned educational proposals which, no doubt, articulate a number of substantial elements of Experiential Pedagogy, more specifically, the principles of continuity and interaction and the social impact of all experience, among others. Regarding this last idea, we will highlight Service-Learning as a proposal of particular importance in the development of values and prosocial behavior.