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Course organization

  • The portfolio is planned over 5 months with specific exercises to encourage reflexivity, one mid-term individual interview and one final-term interview.

  • The portfolio format is completely free but it has to be given at the end of the semester in an electronic version.

  • A guide to carry out personal reflexivity is given, inspired by the ‘experiential learning’ of Kolb.

  • A guide to make a self-evaluation showing progression in competency.

  • An interdisciplinary team of five teachers from different areas of expertise is in support. They conduct interviews and appreciate the quality of the final production.

  • we set up a special frame for helping the students in their portfolio:

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  • Practicing reflexivity:  

    • Day 0: student sketch a « coat of arm » with four quadrants (see opposite): what they are, what the can rely on, what they fear, what they hope, + their motto. Each student presents another student’s shield.

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    • +2weeks: 1 hour individual “Amazement story telling” of what surprised the students since they started the MSEI cursus. Private writing. No evaluation.

    • +6weeks: tutored exercise of kolb cycle on … the topic of practicing reflexivity ! + individual practice of a reflexive writing following a Cycle of Kolb. Interactive with all students and group debriefing.

    • +8weeks: group oral practice of a reflexive approach following a Cycle of Kolb, on the basis of the “interdisciplinary day” devoted to solve one specific case study in group. Reflexivity about their way of finding a solution (thinking in complexity or applying a recipe (rarely successful)?...) and about the way they organized the group (leader or no leader? Taking notes? Equal sharing of ideas or not?...)

    • The mid-term 1h interview with one of the teachers helps levelling difficulties and gives suggestions.

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  • Practicing self and co-evaluation:

    • +7weeks: reflexive practice about the meaning of evaluation and how to conduct a self-evaluation. Some use suggested templates (see before), some amend these templates, some students associate to make collectively new templates.

    • Final interview: the interview is conducted following a semi-structured frame. Each student meet only one of the five teachers. This frame helps the teaching team to make the evaluation coherent.

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