Verena Watzek bezoekt volgende week de faculteit Educatie. In samenwerking met het kenniscentrum ‘Kwaliteit van Leren’  organiseren we een lezing in Studio L&D. Verana is werkzaam op de Universiteit in Regensburg, Duitsland. Zij heeft onderzoek gedaan naar hoe emoties van invloed zijn op het leren in teams. Graag deelt ze haar opgedane kennis hierover. We nodigen je van harte uit om naar haar verhaal te luisteren.

Datum: vrijdag 12 april

Tijd: 10.30-12.00 uur.

Locatie: Studio L&D

Graag even aanmelden via de inspiratieagenda of door een mail te sturen naar christel.vissers@han.nl

(Ps. het bericht is wat laat, en het is toetsweek. We willen toch graag deze kans onder de aandacht brengen!)

Description of lecture: Team learning and emotions in work teams (Verena Watzek, M.A.)

The lecture starts with an introduction to informal learning at work of interdisciplinary vocational educator teams. The key concepts of team learning, team learning behaviours, emotions and affective reactions are then explained. As a next step, studies are illustrated in which team learning behaviours and affective reactions as well as their relationships are investigated. Before presenting the results of these studies, the focus is on using different methodological approaches to measure and analyse team learning behaviours and affective reactions during teamwork. The lecture ends with a discussion on the study results and limitations as well as the implications for practice of vocational educator teams.

 Profile of Verena Watzek, M.A.

Research assistant at the Chair of Educational Science / Pedagogy II at the University of Regensburg, Germany (Chair holder: Prof. Dr. Regina H. Mulder)

Verena Watzek is a researcher at the Institute of Educational Science at the University of Regensburg, Germany. She acquired her M.A.-degree in Pedagogy/Educational Science at the University of Regensburg. Her research focuses on team learning and the role of emotions in work teams. Until recently, she was working on a research project on this topic (on vocational educator teams) supported by the German Research Foundation. This is the basis for her PhD Thesis, which is in the final phase. She investigated team learning behaviours and affective reactions of interdisciplinary vocational educator teams. Her research involved close cooperation with vocational colleges. She is currently working on a research project (on Benchmarking for Quality Assurance in Apprenticeships and Work-based learning, ‘Bequal.app’) supported by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union. This project aims to improve quality in apprenticeships and work-based learning and was initiated by various partners of different EU countries (Lithuania, Greece, Germany, Croatia, Italy, and Slovenia).

Contact:

Verena Watzek, M.A.

e-mail: verena.watzek@ur.de