UWC Seminar: The co-curriculum: an integrated practice or fragments at the fringes of university experience?
Student Development and Support Centre for Student Support Services
Traditional boundaries and roles of higher education are being challenged, not only as learners with diverse profiles enter the higher education sector, but also as the raison d’être for higher education becomes redefined. Part of this re-contextualisation is the emergence of the intersection of the curriculum and student life as a critical aspect in considering the success of higher education. This intersection has given impetus to issues of student engagement, student development and support, the co-curriculum, authentic learning and Graduate Attributes
and how these relate to student success.
Student Development and Support, also called Student Affairs, is a key role player in shaping and enabling complex learning within these curricula which are key contributors to student success. The understanding of learning as a segmented or seamless experience of in-and out-of-classroom development impacts on the conceptualisation of theco-curriculum and on the implied distinction of the various co-curricula.
The focus of this seminar is to explore the role of the various co-curricula within the student experience, in student engagement and student persistence. The seminar provides a platform to critically interrogate and re-define the scope, role and function of the co-curriculum and to begin to shape a coherent concept which informs our thinking and practices within and beyond the various curricula in higher education.
Keynote speaker:
Prof Teboho Moja, PhD, Clinical Professor in Higher Education, New York
University
And
Prof Ronelle Carolissen, PhD, Professor, Department of Educational
Psychology, Stellenbosch University
Date:14 May 2014
Time:10h00 to 13h00
Venue: University of the Western Cape, Life Science Building, 5th
Floor, SANBI Seminar Rooms
Please RSVP to Ludi-May Allie by30 Aprilon e:lmallie@uwc.ac.za, t:
021-9592299
