Teaching through performing arts in higher education: Examples in engineering and psychology
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2020
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Kloetzer, Laure
Henein, Simon
Tau, Ramiro
Martin, Susanne
Valterio, Joëlle
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Department of German, University College Cork
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This paper introduces two courses making use of performing arts at university level. The first course, taught by Prof. Simon Henein and his colleagues, called Improgineering, aims to teach collective creation through improvisation to master’s degree students in engineering at the EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland). The second course, taught by Prof. Laure Kloetzer and her colleagues, aims to introduce the Psychology of Migration via a sociocultural approach to bachelor’s degree students in psychology and education at the University of Neuchâtel (Switzerland). After briefly introducing the topic of performing arts in higher education (section 1), the paper offers a description of the two courses (sections 2 and 3). These are complemented by teachers’ and students’ impressions of the course, as analyzed from individual interviews, focus groups and students’ learning diary entries (section 4). The conclusion presents some reflections on the convergences of the pedagogical designs of the courses, drafting a pedagogical model for using performing arts within higher education (section 5).
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Performing arts , Higher education , Engineering , Psychology , Improgineering , Teaching through performing arts
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Kloetzer, L., Henein, S., Tau, R., Martin, S. and Valterio, J. (2020) 'Teaching through performing arts in higher education: Examples in engineering and psychology', Scenario: A Journal for Performative Teaching, Learning, Research, XIV(2), pp. 1-25. https://doi.org/10.33178/scenario.14.2.1