The video about TeToWaWo2025 will be available soon!
Please see the video from TeToWaCo2024 here to get a feel for what the conference was like, and what we aim for in our workshops this year.These workshops have the word ‘
Tourism’ at the front, and we realised last year that this is both a
blessing and a
curse. Whereas the organisers all come from the fields of tourism, hospitality and events education, the learning activities and assessments are equally applicable in any other field. The
curse is that the word ‘tourism’ might turn away a colleague who teaches in a different faculty as they might imagine that the workshop has nothing to do with their practices. – Nothing is further from reality. – We all learn from one another, regardless of what field we represent (exemplified by colleagues representing literature, linguistics, archaeology, and indigenous studies amongst others last year). It is also a
blessing as tourism is a common nominator that is easy to perceive as a metaphor for society – regardless of what we teach, we can use tourism as an applied field to make the concepts we want to impart to our students come alive.
This year we want to hear about both successful and unsuccessful attempts at ‘breaking away’ from a teacher-focused learning environment. These can be:
- Successful multimodal* activities or assessments inside or outside of classrooms
- Unsuccessful multimodal activities or assessments inside or outside of classrooms
- Examples of activities or assessments fostering critical multiliteracies* amongst learners
- Practical challenges with attempts at creating active learning environments.
- Reflections on institutional resistance or hurdles to non-teacher-focused learning environments
- Reflections on student resistance or hurdles to active learning environments
- Successful and unsuccessful incorporation of local community or organisation ‘problems’ in learning environments.
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Are you wondering about what multimodality and multiliteracies refer to? If you are, then you can see an explanation in Johan’s submission to the previous conference which you can find here.