Sharing International Student Stories: Building Resilient Post-Covid Learning Communities

Garden, Claire; Brodie, Jackie

Abstract

This Quality Assurance Agency Scotland–funded mini project focused on the Resilient Learning Communities Enhancement Theme. We sought to identify enhancement to support building of resilient learning communities for International Postgraduate Taught students (IPGT) who we identified to have particular needs having moved country (often with families) and studied remotely during the pandemic. This cohort also paid international fees to study at a time when opportunities for paid work significantly decreased. We used LEGO®SERIOUS PLAY®(LSP) to support story sharing amongst eight IPGT students of different African and Asian nationalities over three face to face sessions studying Applied Sciences or Business at Edinburgh Napier University.

Citation

Garden, C., & Brodie, J. (2022). Sharing International Student Stories: Building Resilient Post-Covid Learning Communities. In C. Nerantzi, & A. James (Eds.), LEGO® for university learning: Online, offline and elsewhere (117-119). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7421754

• Acceptance Date: Oct 1, 2022
• Online Publication Date: Dec 12, 2022
• Publication Date: Dec 12, 2022
• Deposit Date: Dec 12, 2022
• Publicly Available Date: Dec 12, 2022
• Pages: 117-119
• Book Title: LEGO® for university learning: Online, offline and elsewhere
• Chapter Number: 4.24
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7421754
• Keywords: LEGO Serious PLay, Community, international, student
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2982169
• Publisher URL: https://zenodo.org/record/7421754