Are you interested in cultivating students’ ability to work towards consensus, particularly in group work? Look back at this chapter in the “100 Ideas for Active Learning” (Betts & Oprandi, 2022) book where Eugenia Tzoumaka presents an an active learning idea building on the rationale of the traditional team-building scenarios, which is ideal for courses where group work is moderately or heavily incorporated.
Share with us by leaving your comments on how this exercise can help democratic engagement in academic settings or can help develop students’ soft skills related to employability. Have you used a similar workshops to encourage group work and consensus building?
Tzoumaka, E. (2022). To agree or not to agree? Working towards consensus under conditions of mutual respect. In T. Betts & P. Oprandi, (Eds) 100 Ideas for Active Learning. Available at: https://doi.org/10.20919/OPXR1032/15
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