Student Skills Development Program

Dear ELT Students (ELT 2 ELT 3 and ELT 4), Please be informed that classes will start tomorrow (2/02/2021). Be at the University at 9:00. Add/Drop days : 07/02/2021 08/02/2021

Education is not only for knowing, but it also plays a pivotal role in constituting what a person is, what he will be, and how she positions herself in personal, social, or societal life contexts. All those life contexts are interpreted, experienced, and constructed by people themselves. The resulting narratives are sometimes explicit and verbalized, sometimes implicit and unelected. One of the most inspiring thoughts in Bill Doll’s theorizing of curriculum has been the ground-breaking analyses of ghosts. The ghost is a powerful metaphor, character in a narrative, related to understanding the life world. The workshop will be on 18/02/2021. Place: [...]

ELT 3 Elective: Education from a Critical Lens In this course, we try to understand education from a critical lens. But what is “critical lens”? In order to answer this question, we will ask even more questions and will discuss different answers. We ask questions about what makes us human beings. Are we machines just like computers? Are we animals just like apes? Why do humans have schools? To answer these questions, we will discuss topics like the purpose of schools in society, the meanings of literacy, reading and writing and other similar topics. By having meaningful conversations about these topics, [...]