RENPET Roundtable: Teaching foreign polict in the time of COVID-19 and the war in Ukraine
International Conference “Beyond Europe”
6-7th of December 2022 Poznań, Poland
Session Chair: Niels van Willigen
Participants: Heidrun Maurer
Jarosław Jańczak
Beata Przybylska-Maszner
Anna Potyrała
Marianna Lovato
Overview and details of the session of this conference
The COVID-19 pandemic and Russia-Ukraine war have changed the landscape of the higher education and challenged existing conceptualisations and frameworks for understanding. This has led to debates on what kind of adaptability we need, how we can introduce the innovative reconsiderations. In this roundtable – style open discussion, we want to focus on the lessons-learnt and discuss the opportunities but also future challenges for academics.
The purpose of this panel is to discuss examples of innovative approaches to teaching and learning in EU Foreign Policy courses. We particularly want to focus on the experiences with novel pedagogic methods or ways of learning and moreover provide evidence in the context of existing literature on teaching and learning in higher education. The contributors can discuss issues such as the ways of overcoming existing barriers, disciplinary and inter-disciplinary perspectives and practices, use of new technology, employment of non-traditional assessment methods and examples of problem based-learning, among the others. We expect the contributors to showcase examples of good practice whilst providing inspiration and encouragement for improving existing ways of teaching and learning.
1. What experiences have shaped our thinking of academic and professional work in a positive and negative way, that we want to keep and further professionalize?
2. What existing academic structures trends have been aggravated during the past three years?
3. What has been lost or profit in academic and professional life during the past three years? What are the elements of our new interactions that we can replicate in the future?
The session is proposed by the Jean Monnet network RENPET to foster academic dialogue on key professional issues and trends.
