Would you like to explore how we can work towards fairer partnerships and more equal exchanges in education and research between Leiden and African partners? Through their Learning Mindset project and with extra support from an Erasmus+ International Credit Mobilities grant, Caroline Archambault and David Ehrhardt are organising a week-long workshop on this theme at Leiden University from 17 to 21 March, with visiting African partners from Kenya, Nigeria and Ghana.

PlayShop on Fair Partnerships

Monday 17 March, 13.30 -16 hrs., Wijnhaven, The Hague

In this workshop we will explore how we define fair partnerships and equal exchanges between Africa and Leiden University drawing on our own experiences of success and failure. This session will begin by playing a customised 'serious' game for the occasion: The Big Partnership Prize (1.5 hours of play time) and will end with a de-brief session on lessons learned. 

Global Education Innovation Network

Tuesday 18 March, 14- 16 hrs., African Studies Centre Leiden

This workshop marks the start of a new initiative led by a partnership between Learning Mindset at Leiden University College, the African Studies Centre Leiden, and others within the LDE alliance: the Global Education Innovation Network. The network aims to exchange, research, and scale-up innovative teaching methods. Members of the network will exchange innovative teaching methods, find partners interested in piloting and researching the impacts of their methods in new cross-cultural learning environments, and co-create new teaching practices with other members. The goal is to connect European and African universities on an equitable basis and facilitate the acquisition of external funding for collaborative educational development and research.

How to teach wicked problems, in Europe and Africa

Thursday 20 March, 10-12.30 hrs., African Studies Centre Leiden

In our KIEM-funded project at Leiden University, we are working with the African Studies Centre to conduct a systematic review of academic literature about the best teaching methods to teach higher education students to effectively engage with wicked problems. We would like to bring together experts and educators from The Netherlands and partner universities in Africa to review the first findings from this review, exchange expertise, and identify ways to collaborate to improve our educational approaches. We are also especially keen to discuss how colleagues from different places navigate their (and their students’) own lived experience of the impact of these wicked problems in their day-to-day lives. Does this mediate the ways they teach and learn about them? The aim of the workshop is to gather feedback and identify collaborators to develop new projects (e.g. educational curricula) to enhance the education of wicked problems in the future.

Questions about Workshop Week on Leiden/Africa?

We’re happy to assist you! Send an email to c.archambault@luc.leidenuniv.nl or d.w.l.ehrhardt@luc.leidenuniv.nl. 

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