Innovative Social Sciences Teaching and Learning: Facilitating Students' Personal Growth and Career Success

Rietig, K

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-41452-7

Innovative Social Sciences Teaching and Learning: Facilitating Students' Personal Growth and Career Success

Lookup NU author(s): Professor Katharine Rietig

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Abstract

This book offers novel insights into how students can develop a personal growth mindset during their degree programs that allows them to view new challenges as opportunity to grow personally, reflect on the new knowledge and experience, and subsequently improve their skills to critically examine and evaluate information on a journey of personal growth. It offers a novel framework that allows university teachers to constructively align learning objectives and assessments with crucial transferable skill development and fostering a mindset for personal growth among students with a focus on continuously improving and reflecting on feedback. The objective is to empower academics to build modules and degree programs that are ‘fit for purpose’ by equipping social science students with the skills and mindsets that will benefit them throughout their careers in ever changing and newly emerging jobs.