You are invited to attend the lunch time Auxin session offered by the Centre for Teaching and Learning.?
Speaker: Delecia Davids
Topic: Learning to Let Go: Pedagogical Courage and Uncertainty with Escape Room Pedagogies
??Date: 22 April 2025
Time: 13:10-14:10
?Venue: MS Teams: Join the meeting now
Summary of the Auxin:
This presentation offers a reflective examination of a (virtual) escape room intervention in a teacher education module. The escape room aimed to foster student engagement and creativity by inviting them to navigate open-ended digital tasks and co-construct meaning within playful yet professionally grounded scenarios. However, it quickly evolved into a powerful pedagogical provocation highlighting the productive tensions of uncertainty, courage, and collaboration in higher education teaching, learning and assessment. This design destabilised traditional pedagogical authority and assessment expectations, echoing Barnett's (2007) call for higher education to prepare students for the unknown. The intervention required students to navigate ambiguity, make collective decisions, and creatively respond to unfamiliar challenges. It also fostered assessment as learning, prioritising reflection and transformation over correct answers, allowing students to take on a more agentic role in their learning. For educators, it offers a provocation to view pedagogical experimentation as a form of inquiry and courage, seeing uncertainty as fertile ground for growth.?
Delecia Davids is a lecturer and early career academic at the Faculty of Education at Stellenbosch 中国体育彩票. As a Mandela Rhodes scholar, Delecia completed her master's in education policy studies with a thesis on the agency and place-attachment practices of student leaders. She is currently a PhD candidate and her research explores preservice teachers' digital agency through a sociological and sociomaterial lens.
Contact person: Simbongile Ntwasa at sim@sun.ac.za
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