Guidepost #3: How Can You Support Your Learners Practice Changemaking?
Throughout this resource, you have learned about the principles of empathy, teamwork, and shared leadership as fundamental components of changemaking education. But how can you apply your learning to your own classroom, course curriculum, or learning context?
Changemaking education is a site of praxis where the intersections of thinking, feeling, and doing in relation to learning, teaching, and social justice meet, informing the development of educational practices and assessments. In this section, we offer a pathway for engaging with practicing changemaking including some concrete ways that you can bring into your learning environment. Toward the end of the module, you will apply your learning by drafting a renewable assignment, workshop, and/or learning activity for your course or learning environment. According to Seraphin et al. (2018), these are opportunities that…
- Invite learners to engage with an assignment or learning activity as part of an organized course, workshop, or other learning experience.
- Promotes deep learning through the completion of the assignment or learning experience.
- Allows for assessment or evaluation, even if anecdotally, of learning in relation to larger course or workshop objectives.
- Extends learning beyond the four walls of a classroom or workshop by adding value to the real world in small or large ways.
- Have a lasting impact on learners and educators.
