Background
As a master’s student, you already gained quite some experience in participating in education, shaping your view. Are you ready to switch perspectives? In this internship, you will advance your skills in transferring scientific knowledge to hands-on materials for two target groups: first year students, and your fellow master students.
The Psychology programme of the UT uses project-based learning in the bachelor. For ten weeks, students work together in small groups consisting of people with different (cultural) backgrounds and motivations. Data shows students often experience social loafing in their project groups. Although we address social loafing in a tutorial to intragroup conflict there is little concrete (scenario) material on it. And that is where you come in.
Building on existing teaching material and using the student data, you will develop realistic scenarios on social loafing. You will visualize this in a stop-motion video, using the dual concern model of conflict styles as a foundation. Examples are available. The material should invite students to have open conversations, take perspective, and distinguish this theory from related theories.
Secondly, you will work on material for master students. Last year, two interns developed an educational game that we use in the course on Group Dynamics and Interventions: Tribes of Utwentia. If you started your master in September, you know this game. If you started in February, you will start your internship playing the game. No spoilers here.
A current limitation is the amount of players being fixed to four. You will take this game to the next level, designing options decreasing and expanding this number. When finding the ultimate option(s), you will adjust the game (including materials) accordingly. Testing ideas with real players is highly recommended. This is a creative process, encouraging perspective taking and demanding systematical thinking.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION ORGANIZATION
The section Psychology of Conflict, Risk and Safety at the University of Twente has a distinctive and unique profile in the areas of risk perception and risk communication, conflict and crisis management and the antecedents of risky, antisocial, and criminal behaviour. It currently includes 16 research staff members and 8 PhD students. We work from both a psychology and an engineering perspective and cooperate with other scientific disciplines, based on the “high tech, human touch” profile of the University of Twente.
INTERESTED?
Please contact the PCRS internship coordinator Miriam Oostinga (m.s.d.oostinga@utwente.nl).