A new dimension in personalized inclusive education
Below you’ll find the full program for the three-day international event on learning from and working with experiential knowledge both in social work and nursing education and in practice. You can attend one, two or all days of the event. You can register here.
Wednesday 9th of October – International workshops & work visits
9.00 Registration – D0.54
10.00 Welcome – D0.54
10.10 Plenary session by Jean Pierre Wilken and colleagues from the partnership Experiential Knowledge in Higher Education – present the main outcomes of this 2 years Erasmus+ project. The project consisted of a number of 7 work packages: theoretical foundation, educational materials, training for teachers, support kit for experts by experience, organisational framework, website and resources and monitoring – D0.54
10.45 Coffee and tea break – D0.54
11.15 Parallel workshop round 1
- 1. A toolkit for the support of Experts by Experience in Higher Education – D2.30
In this workshop, we will show the toolkit for supporting experts by experience in education. We collected this information in the project Experiential Knowledge in Higher education with the help of 10 different countries. We will have a wordcafé, and discuss about the usability, applicability and the potential for supplementing the toolbox with own practices.
Workshop led by: Kristel Driessens & Pascal Maes (Karel de Grote University of Applied Sciences, Lien Frissen & Caro Brits (UCLL – Leuven), Belgium. - 2. Double talents in higher education – D1.76
Our goals is sharing experiences and integrating the experiences of nursing, medical and social work students with chronic conditions and mental vulnerabilities in higher education as a double talent.
In this project University of Utrecht and Utrecht University of applied sciences work together with students social work, nursing and medicine on products that support the use of experiential knowledge of double talented students in higher education. We would like to share our experiences so far and would like to invite you to talk with these double talents in dialogue sessions.
Workshop led by: Casper Schoemaker, Nina Korsuize, Sascha van Gijzel & Rachelle de Mooij, from University of Utrecht and Utrecht University of applied sciences, the Netherlands. - 3. Training in tandem in social work – D2.90
In this workshop, we illustrate how we work in tandem: Two is more than the sum of one plus one! The trainer with lived experience provides students with feedback on the skills and attitudes to be developed. This feedback is supplemented with academic knowledge, but the power of the feedback stems from the trainer’s personal experience!
This is an educational programme developed for second-year Social Work bachelor students at KdG Antwerp. It consists of 12 hours of instruction, delivered to groups of 16 students. The aim is to provide all students the opportunity to practice with a trainer with lived experience of poverty. The method involves students engaging in role-play exercises to simulate a warm welcome in a social service setting: what questions to ask, how to handle emotions, how to respond to unexpected questions, how to assess needs and how to explore them further,…
Workshop led by Greet Scheerlinck & Gwen Schoeters, Karel de Grote University of Applied Sciences, Belgium. Gwen does research for organisation Bind-Kracht about EbE in social work and Greet is a social work teacher, together they teach the training in tandem course. - 4. Integrating key principles of experiential knowledge into the learning process – D1.92
The goal is to reflect on and experience the main educational principles of experiential knowledge (concept) in the learning process. The workshop will focus on 1) key educational principles for integrating experiential knowledge into study process, and 2) experiencing the method and process of how the principle can be put into practice.
Over the course of the project Experiential knowledge in higher education, knowledge has been gathered on what values and principles should characterize the learning process. In the workshop, we will focus on bringing one or two of the principles into the classroom as a practical example of what can be done in the classroom to create a milieu in line with the principle.
Workshop led by: Jolita Buzaityte Kašalyniene, Vilnius University, Leonie de Quelerij, University of applied sciences Windesheim & Dagmar Narusson
12.15 Lunch – D0.54
13.30 Start workshop round 2 or a work visits
Workshop round 2: 13.30 – 14.30 | Work visits 13.30 – 17.00 |
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Meeting point: Lunch – D0.54
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Coffee and tea break 14.30 – 15.00 – D0.54
Workshop round 3: 15.00 – 16.00 |
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16.00-16.30 Break with refreshments – D0.54
16.30-17.00 Recap of the day – D0.54
Thursday 10th of October – Conference
9.00 Registration – G2.20
10.00 Welcome & keynote speakers – G2.20
- Keynote Bini Araia – will share his experience of working in a program in partnership/supported by Open University, Teesside University called ‘Mend the Gap’, where service users (unaccompanied asylum seeking children (UASC), asylum, seeking parents) codesigned round table workshops along with social work students and practitioners at a neutral space looking at key topics such as housing, health, security, FGM, benefit entitlements including right to advocacy support, cultural differences, the law in the UK as far as child protection is concerned, social workers roles and shared each others perspectives. See article ‘Why asylum seeker parents are scared of social workers’.
Bini Araia is originally from Eritrea and a former political refugee to the UK. He has worked with refugees and vulnerable migrants over the last two decades. Bini is a co-founder of a regional refugee charity called Investing in people and Culture (IPC) based in the North east of England, which serves around 2000 refugees and asylum seekers annually. - Keynote Alie Weerman – will talk about her experiences at Windesheim University of Applied Sciences with implementing experiential knowledge in Social work education. Alie Weerman is professor Mental Health and Society at Windesheim University of Applied Sciences.
10.50-11.10 Coffee & tea break – G2.20
- Keynote Jean Pierre Wilken and colleagues from the partnership Experiential Knowledge in Higher Education – present the main outcomes of this 2 years Erasmus+ project. The project consisted of a number of 7 work packages: theoretical foundation, educational materials, training for teachers, support kit for experts by experience, organisational framework, website and resources and monitoring. Jean Pierre Wilken is professor of Social Work (chair Participation, Care and Support) at Utrecht University of Applied Sciences.
12.10 lunch G2.20
13.30 parallel workshops – workshop with the keynotes
- ‘Mend the Gap’, with service users (unaccompanied asylum seeking children (UASC), asylum, seeking parents), social work students and practitioners by Bini Araia, Helen Casey from the Open University UK and Olalekan Olujimi Odedeyi from Save The Woman UK – D2.88
- Implementing experiential knowledge in Social work education by Alie Weerman from Windesheim University of Applied Sciences– D1.76
- Experiential knowledge in higher education, what is needed in terms of policy and organisation? by Jean Pierre Wilken, Mette Fløystad Kvammen from Adger University, Norway.
There will also be a Q&A with the whole project (keyprinciples, guide & methods, tools to support EbE, training for teachers and monitoring) – G2.20
14.30 Coffee & tea break – G2.20
15.00 parallel workshops – workshop with the keynotes
- ‘Mend the Gap’, with service users (unaccompanied asylum seeking children (UASC), asylum, seeking parents), social work students and practitioners by Bini Araia, Helen Casey from the Open University UK and Olalekan Olujimi Odedeyi from Save The Woman UK – D2.88
- Implementing experiential knowledge in Social work education by Alie Weerman from Windesheim University of Applied Sciences– D1.76
- Experiential knowledge in higher education, How to assess and monitor implementation? by Jean Pierre Wilken, Beatriz Rodríguez Martín from University of Castilla-la Mancha Spain. There will also be a Q&A with the whole project (key principles, guide & methods, tools to support EbE, training for teachers and monitoring) – G2.20
16.00-17.00 refreshments – G2.20
18.00 Dinner for project partners at Gift city.
Friday 11th of October – International part of the PEPPER conference
9.00 – 11.30 – internal project meeting, project Experiential Knowledge in Higher Education Erasmus+ – D1.76
11.30-12.45 – Workshop: International perspectives on experiential expertise and experiential knowledge. Experiences from different European countries – main building H, Auditorium
For examples, have a look at the project website, click here. This session is in English.
If you want to register for the complete PEPPER conference, and not just the international part, you will have to do this separately via University of Applied Sciences Windesheim. The language of the PEPPER conference is Dutch (except for the international workshop at 11.30-12.45, this is in English).
The workshops and conference are hosted by Windesheim University of Applied Sciences and partnership Experiential Knowledge.
If you have questions, please contact iris.vantwout@hu.nl