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Make yourself uncomfortable: How making the familiar strange helps students learn

Higher Ed Heroes

English - April 18, 2022 07:00 - 20 minutes - 14.1 MB
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In this episode, Al and Seb talk to Dr Rebecca Olive (RMIT Australia) about how students in human movement studies learn by taking on an unfamiliar sport for six weeks. It is about experiencing the strangeness of the familiar, about self-reflection, and about the development of (self)compassion.