Workshop in Bratislava on Creative Curricula

In February, we at the Chair were invited to take part in a workshop as part of the ERASMUS+ project CT.Uni: Creative Thinking - Taking an Innovative and STEAM Approach for a Transdisciplinary University . Martin Ritter and Peter Schulze accepted the invitation to Bratislava. The core of the already advanced project is to further develop teaching and learning processes at European universities. Problem-solving learning and design thinking play a central role in this. In addition, the STEAM approach is about using science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics in the learning process to stimulate dialog and critical thinking and to initiate creative learning processes that take different perspectives into account. While many of the international participants brought with them the perspective of different disciplines, we were able to contribute good impulses from the findings of teaching-learning research with our vocational pedagogical perspective. For example, it should be questioned whether certain learning processes may take place automatically in creative problem-solving processes and which learning processes should be addressed, initiated and accompanied in a targeted manner. The necessary teaching and learning prerequisites for discovery-based learning should also be taken into account when planning appropriate scenarios. At the same time, we were thrilled to see how enthusiastically the existing project team is working on appreciating existing teaching concepts and at the same time providing support for further development and innovation in teaching. Among other things, questionnaires were developed and evaluated for this purpose, which provided us as guests with a good basis for discussion.

In addition to the professional exchange, there was of course also the opportunity to get to know Bratislava and its culinary cuisine a little better. It was interesting for us to learn that one million of the country's five million inhabitants live in Bratislava and that the Danube had such a low water level in 1983 that you could practically walk through it.