Higher Ed Heroes

Make yourself uncomfortable: How making the familiar strange helps students learn

April 18, 2022 Seb Kaempf and Al Stark Season 3 Episode 9
Make yourself uncomfortable: How making the familiar strange helps students learn
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Higher Ed Heroes
Make yourself uncomfortable: How making the familiar strange helps students learn
Apr 18, 2022 Season 3 Episode 9
Seb Kaempf and Al Stark

In this episode, Al and Seb talk to Dr Rebecca Olive (RMIT Australia) about how students in human movement studies learn by taking on an unfamiliar sport for six weeks. It is about experiencing the strangeness of the familiar, about self-reflection, and about the development of (self)compassion. 

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In this episode, Al and Seb talk to Dr Rebecca Olive (RMIT Australia) about how students in human movement studies learn by taking on an unfamiliar sport for six weeks. It is about experiencing the strangeness of the familiar, about self-reflection, and about the development of (self)compassion.