Inaugural lecture Dr. Arie H. van der Lugt
Appointed as Professor of "Experiential education: Teaching innovation and professional development" at the Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience
"Kindling curiosity"
To kindle students’ curiosity, we need to energize, engage, and empower them. We need to enable them to take up the reigns and lead in their own learning. All too often, higher education is reduced to an exercise in social management, where students simply jump through the many hoops on the path to graduation. The first step in moving away from compliance and towards engagement involves creating an environment, an academic playground, where students want to learn rather than have to learn. But often we stop there, meaning that we have dedicated and driven students who still aren’t getting the chance to truly own their learning. If we want students to be critical, creative, and self-directed learners, we need to go one step beyond student engagement and move towards student empowerment. In my lecture, I will give some concrete examples of how I have put this into practice over the past two decades and how I plan to keep doing so in the future: Teaching for thinking. Teaching for doing. Teaching for dreaming!
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