Workshop: Fostering Critical and Creative Thinking in Higher and Adult Education

This workshop will explore one of the challenges that the specific recommendations of the European Commission on university
systems pose: improving their ability to support students in the acquisition of creative and critical thinking skills necessary to build
new professional “broadband” epistemologies. The following questions are being answered through the contributions of various
researchers of adult learning and education studying creativity from a practice-based, cultural and distributed perspective:

•  How to help university students develop creative and critical thinking skills that enable them to learn to move in constantly changing work scenarios?

• What tools and techniques to use to assess their acquisition levels and learning outcomes?

• Through which creative, analogical, and digital methodologies, future adult educators and teachers can build reflective skills

• What are the methods, techniques, and tools that future adult educators and teachers can use to design creative learning experiences?

Programm:

9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Opening Remarks
Prof. Dr. Regina Egetenmeyer, University of Würzburg (Germany)
Prof. Dr. Francesca Bracci, University of Florence (Italy)

Fostering Active Learning and Teaching using Creative Arts
Prof. Dr. Monica Fedeli, University of Padua (Italy)
Moderation of Q&A: Prof. Dr. Mario Giampaolo, University of Siena (Italy)

Skills for Life and the Implementation of the Pact for Skills.
Meaning and Methodological Impact on Higher Education
Prof. Dr. Paolo Federighi, University of Florence (Italy)
Moderation of Q&A: Prof. Dr. Mario Giampaolo, University of Siena (Italy)

Developing a Model for Critical Awareness and Activism:
Reflections on Participatory Community Research in Palestine
Prof. Dr. Rabab Tamish, Bethlehem University (Palestine)
Moderation of Q&A: Prof. Dr. Alessandra Romano, University of Siena (Italy)

02:00 p.m. - 04:00 p.m.
Learn, Design, Make: Creativity for the
Professional Development
Prof. Dr. Loretta Fabbri, University of Siena (Italy)
Prof. Dr. Mario Giampaolo, University of Siena (Italy)
Moderation of Q&A: Prof. Dr. Monica Fedeli, University of Padua (Italy)

Transformative Learning and Practical Creativity
— A Practice-Based View
Prof. Dr. Victoria Marsick, Teachers College, Columbia University (USA)
Prof. Dr. Francesca Bracci, University of Florence (Italy)
Prof. Dr. Alessandra Romano, University of Siena (Italy)
Moderation of Q&A: Prof. Dr. Monica Fedeli, University of Padua (Italy)

Closing Remarks
Prof. Dr. Regina Egetenmeyer, University of Würzburg (Germany)
Prof. Dr. Francesca Bracci, University of Florence (Italy)

Registration:  Please register until June 22th, 2022 via QR-Code or https://bit.ly/3scL2up*
*By participating, you agree that the workshop may be recorded.
The recordings are used for academic and research purposes only.
Hybrid mode: The workshop is taking place in a hybrid mode. You can either join digitally or face-to-face.
Please note in your registration if you intend to participate digitally (via ZOOM) or on-campus
(Address: room 00.212, Bibliotheks- und Seminarzentrum, Josef-Martin-Weg 64, 97074 Würzburg)

The workshop will be in English language.

Please find all infomation on the poster and on the website of Professur für Erwachsenenbildung/ Weiterbildung.

Access to Zoom: 
You can find the Zoom link to the event in our WueCampus room: https://go.uniwue.de/gsik-teilnahme
Confirmation of attendance:
During the event you can confirm your attendance for a GSiK certificate, also in our WueCampus room: https://go.uniwue.de/gsik-teilnahme. You will receive the password for this during the event.