Diversity Intervention for Health Educators
- Author:
- Ismail, Salma
- Subject:
- Social Sciences
- Institution Name:
- University of Capetown
- Collection:
- University of Capetown
- Grade Level:
- Post-secondary
- Abstract:
The diversity workshops were held with academic staff who supervise fourth-year medical students' research and health promotion projects in the Public and Primary Health Care Department at the University of Cape Town. These include staff who are site facilitators, lecturers, and registrars in the Health Science Faculty. Many of them, except for the site facilitators who mainly supervise the health promotion projects, have had no training in teaching methodology or educational theory. Therefore, the emphasis of the training was on the supervision of the research Epidemiology projects. The supervisors were facing complex challenges in establishing new ways of teaching to support the changing learning environment, small group learning in institutional and community settings, and the increasing diversity of the student body. To enable staff to respond to these challenges, an Adult Educator from the Centre of Higher Education and Development was asked to run workshops with staff in which diversity is made an explicit presence in the learning process. This report documents the process of the workshop implementation.
- Languages:
- English
- Material Type:
- Readings
- Media Format:
- Text/HTML
- Conditions of Use:
- Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5
- Copyright Holder:
- University of Cape Town
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