1 / 13

Engaging Students in Ageing Studies: Transformative Curriculum Development

This project aimed to introduce a new ageing module, addressing societal challenges and involving postgraduate and undergraduate students from various faculties. The development process included analysis of student learning needs, curriculum drafting, and focus group discussions. Results showed strong student interest, with a focus on health and biology of ageing. Older people's input was crucial in shaping the module, emphasizing contact with them. Ongoing involvement includes lectures, seminars, peer mentors, and more.

justis
Download Presentation

Engaging Students in Ageing Studies: Transformative Curriculum Development

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Developing a new module about ageing

  2. Why the project was needed • Ageing as a societal challenge theme • Postgraduate predominance • Extension of theme to undergraduate students from all faculties • Development of trans-faculty links

  3. What we did with…. • Students(FMS, HASS, SAGE) • Older people (Exbex consultation group) • Ageing map and gap analysis • Student learning needs analysis – questionnaire and focus groups • Draft and refine curriculum • Design pilot

  4. Student Questionnaire

  5. Questionnaire Results • Keen interest in health and biology of ageing and ageing around the world. • 78% of students wanted lecture based learning. • Disappointed with the small amount of people who saw contact with older people as a reason to do module. • Happy with large amounts of people wanting to be involved with our pilot module.

  6. Focus Groups

  7. HASS and SAGE Focus Group • New ideas for HASS module outline • Students were excited to return to multi-discipline teaching • Ways of teaching on the module • Caution about contact with older people

  8. FMS Focus Group • Helped build on current FMS module ideas • Eager to learn about theory behind biological ageing • Would enjoy contact with older people on the module • Interesting ideas about charities we could work with to help further build the module

  9. Older People

  10. EXBEX • “Experts by experience” • Important ageing issues • Review progress and development • Involvement in the module Important ageing issues (Data collected from EXBEX consultation 1, n=7)

  11. Outcomes and advice • A holistic approach to ageing • Positives and negatives, “Living”

  12. Ongoing involvement • Lectures, Seminars and teaching • Peer mentors • Visit days • And beyond…

More Related