Day of learning cultures 2025

As part of the workshop "...and what does that have to do with me?" - Reflection offers on the topic of discrimination sensitivity, we invite both students and teaching staff to engage in a dialog with themselves and others.

Several stations are offered, which can also be visited individually and are intended to encourage the following discussion:

• "Check your privilege!" - using the "Power Flower" to think about (de)privilege and start a conversation
• Writing discussion: Develop and discuss visions of a new, discrimination-sensitive teaching and learning culture at the University of Siegen
• Analyze and comment on materials and media in a discrimination-critical way

Time: 14:00 - 17:00

The workshop presents initial concept ideas from the international PowerBase project, which sees schools as 'enabling spaces': spaces in which children and young people can playfully experience and strengthen their basic psychological needs for orientation/control, bonding, pleasure and displeasure as well as self-esteem enhancement/protection (Grawe, 2004). Based on the MGML methodology (Girg, Lichtinger & Müller, 2012), SeELe materials (Müller, Grieser, Roos & Schmalenbach, 2022) and movement pedagogical approaches (Mura, Tatulli & Zurru, 2019), an experience-oriented and autonomous learning setting beyond the pressure to perform will be tested. In the workshop, we will jointly work out how these pedagogical principles
can be transferred to higher education didactic practice; as a contribution to the development of participatory learning cultures that promote creativity and new spaces of opportunity for students.

Time: 14:00 - 17:00

Brief description:

How can artistic practice itself become a mode of research, and what role do digital and analog technologies play in shaping this process? This workshop, led by Dr. Evelyn Buyken and Dr. Lawrence Wilde, introduces students and teachers to the methods and practices of artistic research.

In the first part, Dr. Buyken will explore the theoretical foundations of artistic research: what it is, how it differs from other research approaches, and how students can apply artistic research methodologies in their own studies and creative work. The second part, led by Dr. Wilde, will be practice-based and hands-on. Participants will work with a range of creative technologies, focusing on the Postdigital Laptop Ensemble (PULSE) as a technology-mediated space for experimentation and reflection, engaging with sound, composition, and performance as forms of inquiry.

Together, these components create a space to reflect on and try out artistic research as a way of generating knowledge through creative processes. The workshop will be bilingual in English and German.

Maximum number of participants:

15 (Registration for the workshop is possible on the day of the event on the participation lists on display)

Time: 14:00 - 17:00

Event description

Time: 14:00 - 18:00

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COMET is an instrument for successively measuring the learning setting (competence orientation) and the degree of competence development achieved, especially in the industrial-technical professions (throughput and output). COMET thus works in the area of determining vocational aptitude, an evaluative core criterion that applies in the German education system both for recognized training occupations and for BA courses of study. At the heart of this is always the teaching approach of project-based action orientation instead of knowledge transfer. COMET therefore calls for the development of "holistic design skills" as an educational objective. The COMET procedure maps 8 criteria (functionality, utility value orientation, business process orientation, social responsibility, ecological responsibility, economic efficiency, creativity, presentation) with 4 items each and thus enables an independent evaluation with a reliability of more than 75% after successful rater training. developed.

Maximum number of participants: 15 (registration is possible on site on the day of the event)

Time: 14:00 - 17:00

Location: Breite Straße 11

How can learning spaces be created that promote creativity, cooperation and self-direction? The concept of enabling spaces aims to create conditions in which learners can take responsibility, try things out and develop new things together. It encompasses not only physical, but also social and mental spaces in which openness, trust and curiosity become effective.

In this session, we will explore the potential of "enabling spaces" using the agile LEGO® Serious Play® (LSP) method. By "thinking with your hands", abstract ideas and structures become visible, relationships and dynamics are made "tangible". Together we build and reflect on models to find out which conditions and attitudes favor enabling spaces and how they can be specifically designed in teaching-learning contexts. The skills and ideas of all participants are equally integrated. It opens up a creative, playful approach to questions of learning space design and helps to make unspoken perspectives visible. In individual and collective reflection phases, we develop impulses for the further development of a participative, trusting and innovation-promoting learning culture at the university.

Maximum number of participants:

20 people (registration for the workshop is possible on the day of the event on the participation lists on display)

Time: 14:00 - 17:00

We offer guided tours of the main library AR:

- Insights into support services for learning, researching and writing

- an overview of the many possibilities of the library as a place of learning - from individual workstations and collaborative learning spaces to our courses and offers for academic writing

- a presentation of the peer-to-peer writing consultations for the individual development of your own writing skills and the ZefaS writing and reading time (open writing group for concentrated work)

- Information on research advice

- the opportunity to get to know all the services on offer, ask questions and experience the library as an active space for academic practice.

Maximum number of people:

20 people per tour. Prior registration is not necessary.

Times:

The approx. 60-minute guided tours are offered at the following times:

• 1:00 pm
• 3:00 p.m.

The Lernwerkstatt Lehrkräftebildung is an institution of the Center for Teacher Training and Educational Research. It offers a place for encounters, exchange, advice and further training for student teachers of all subjects and school types. The offers are organized and partly carried out by student employees in the Lernwerkstatt. In addition, the Lernwerkstatt is well networked with all internal university institutions that are important for student teachers and also works with external speakers and cooperation partners.

Services offered:

• Student counseling: Peer counseling
• PC workstations, literature and materials, rooms for free work
• Information events, lectures, workshops and excursions
• Sofa concert, games evenings, LaNa and Master's party, participation in Open University and ESE

Times: Between 14:00 and 17:00, interested parties can visit the Lernwerkstatt Lehrkräftebildung during regular opening hours.

The "Haardter-Berg-Hauptschule" was built in the early 1970s as part of the "Haardter-Berg" urban development project as a model school and is now used by the University of Siegen (part of the Adolf-Reichwein-Str. campus). The proximity to the former Siegen University of Applied Sciences enabled a close exchange between the educational institutions for decades and thus a practical implementation of the current teaching concepts by the trainee teachers. In addition, the building has special architectural features that are expressed in specific spatial qualities. The multifunctional assembly hall, also known as the "pedagogical center", which serves not only as an entrance and access area, but also as a meeting space, is worthy of special mention. The classrooms are flexible in size and sections can also be partitioned off by sliding walls to create places for individual supervision of the pupils. Thanks to the terracing of the building and the consistent use of skylights, the entire depth of the room is optimally lit.

Guided tours of the building and an exhibition are intended to convey this "enabling space" and discuss the great potential of the rooms for university use.

Maximum number of people:

15 people per tour (registration for the workshop is possible on the day of the event on the participation lists on display)

Time/s:

between 10 am and 4 pm, we are flexible so far, length of the guided tours: 30 min., at least 30 min. break between the guided tours, number of guided tours: 3-4, start times can be determined by the organization team so that the offer fits well into the program

Meeting point: Foyer of the Haardter Berg School (AR-HB, main entrance)

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Writing peer tutors (SPT) are students trained in writing didactics who support other students in all aspects of their academic writing process as part of peer-to-peer consultations. Our article shows the extent to which working as an SPT at ZefaS can be understood as an enabling space .

SPTs have a variety of learning experiences in different contexts of their work:

• During SPT training, there is an intensive exchange of experiences with participants from different specialist cultures and the ZefaS team.
• In further training courses and in the preparation and follow-up of writing consultations, SPTs learn interactively within the ZefaS team.
• As part of the writing consultations, the SPT expand their skills for their work at ZefaS as well as for their own studies and future professional life by working with students seeking advice.

In these settings, reciprocal learning processes arise in which the SPT learn from collaborators and also contribute their individual strengths and resources to help shape and further develop ZefaS.

Immersive learning environments allow words to be experienced in realistic contexts, which can increase learners' motivation and learning success (cf. Hein et. al. 2021, 129). This presentation therefore focuses on how VR glasses can enrich foreign language teaching in terms of vocabulary acquisition. The applications "Language Lab" and "MeetinVR" will be used to show the opportunities VR glasses offer for tandem learning, the challenges that exist and how their use can be meaningfully integrated into the classroom. There will be an optional opportunity to take a brief look through the VR glasses and gain a brief insight into the virtual learning environment.

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