Course detail

Development of Pedagogical Competences

FaVU-3PEDKAcad. year: 2024/2025

The course Development of Pedagogical Competencies (School of Imagination) supports interdisciplinarity at the level of thinking about creative and pedagogical competencies. It explores an approach to creative pedagogical work that, through grounding in sensory activities, facilitates communication on challenging or controversial contemporary topics across differing viewpoints, thereby fostering systemic and critical thinking. As participants in the course, students can experience how to build a safe space within groups and how not to shy away from complex topics that naturally arise in collective settings. The design of the School of Imagination workshop cycle offers a continuous process of creative learning within closed groups. This pedagogical format allows for the ongoing acquisition and deepening of creative-pedagogical competencies that are necessary and beneficial in the participants’ own work as instructors and creative educators. The workshops are led by external educators MgA. Barbora Kleinhamplová and Mgr. Tereza Čajková in collaboration with Futuropolis/NaZemi.

Language of instruction

Czech

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

doc. MgA. Filip Cenek

Department

Faculty of Fine Arts (FaVU)

Entry knowledge

Not applicable.

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

The course is completed with a credit. Attendance at seminars is mandatory, with two unexcused absences permitted. Classes take place on the premises of the Faculty of Fine Arts at BUT on dates specified at the beginning of the semester. Some classes are held at external locations (natural environments or cultural institutions), with the choice of location corresponding to the nature of the topics being covered. The following teaching methods are employed in the course: experiential work with topics; sensory-oriented education; participatory interactive workshops incorporating methods of individual and collective reflection; group discussions; and analysis of shared materials.

Aims

The aim of the course is to develop the abilities that enable the exploration of complex and challenging topics that affect our present lives and future through sensory-oriented activities. The course focuses on cultivating imagination, including social and ecological imagination. The seminars offer a diverse range of creative experiential methods to introduce the use of senses and emotions as an essential part of the educational process. Students are introduced to the basic principles of critical pedagogy and systems thinking. Collaborative work in closed groups fosters openness and deepens mutual sharing within the group. By completing the course, students will strengthen the following abilities and competencies: developing skills necessary for group work; enhancing imagination and the capacity to incorporate a wide range of creative experiential methods into professional and educational activities; fostering future-oriented thinking and critical analysis of so-called epochal topics (current key issues); and improving the ability to work with senses and emotions as an essential part of the educational process.

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Abram, D. (2013) Kouzlo smyslů: vnímání a jazyk ve více než lidském světě. DharmaGaia. Praha.
Butler, C. H. (2014). The abandonment of art: 1948–1988. New York : Museum of Modern Art.
Čajková, T. (2022) Transformativní vzdělávání jako klíčová odpověď na četné výzvy budoucnosti. NaZemi.
Čajková, T. (2023). Smysly a vzdělávání. FUTUROPOLIS: Škola emancipace.
Harding, S. 2016. Animate Earth. Science, Intuition and Gaia. Green Books Ltd.
Rolnik, S. (2017) The Knowing-Body Compass in Curatorial Practices. Theater 1 February 2017; 47 (1): 116–136.
Rosa, H. (2015). Social Acceleration: A New Theory of Modernity. Columbia University Press.
Rosa, H. (2019). Resonance: A Sociology of Our Relationship to the World. Polity.
Weber, A. (2022). Cítí, tedy je. Jakub Hlaváček – MALVERN.

Type of course unit

Seminar

24 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

MgA. Barbora Kleinhamplová
Mgr. Tereza Čajková