Advancing learning & engagement for students of refugee backgrounds in HE

UniSA College

Are you working with students from refugee backgrounds? Join this workshop to learn more about how you can best support their journeys!

City West Campus, UniSA College David Pank Building Level 2  room DP2-08

Are you working with students from refugee backgrounds? Would you like to learn more about how you can best support their journeys at university? Would you like to learn new teaching approaches that are relevant to students from refugee backgrounds? In this three-hour workshop, we will begin by critically reflecting on our past experiences of teaching students from refugee backgrounds and deficit discourses we have encountered. The workshop will then introduce you to culturally responsive pedagogies and enabling pedagogies. We will then share research findings from a project that explored best practice approaches for teaching students from refugee backgrounds. The findings are drawn from conversations with academics and refugee-background students. In the second part of the workshop, we will explore the following three concepts: student funds of knowledge, trauma-informed teaching, and the hidden curriculum. The workshop activities are designed to help you learn about research-informed approaches and reflect on how they can inform your teaching. By the end of this workshop, you will have developed a range of teaching approaches that can improve student engagement and positive outcomes for students of refugee backgrounds. Dr Snjezana Bilic is a lecturer at UniSA College. Snjezana is a lead academic in UniSA College Refugee Student Support group and she is committed to the provision of support for culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) and students of refugee backgrounds (SfRBs) and their educators at the UniSA College. Snjezana’s current research focus explores teachers of SfRBs understandings of the ‘cultural dimensions of the lives of students with refugee experience’ and how this engagement and understanding can be used to further produce positive outcomes for SfRBs.Dr Heidi Hetz is a lecturer in the enabling pathway programs at UniSA College where she has been teaching sociology, academic writing, and literacy since 2015. Through her teaching and research, Heidi seeks to address barriers to the meaningful participation of people of refugee background in higher education and in society. A current research project explores best practice approaches for teaching and supporting students from refugee backgrounds in higher education.

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