dr. Luce Claessens
Luce Claessens is an anthropolgist and an educational psychologist. Before pursuing a career in educational sciences, she worked as a teacher at an urban primary school in Utrecht. Her interest in teachers’ behaviour and cognitions was sparked here and she is currently coordinator of the teacher training program for primary school teachers at the department of Education. Her research focuses on teacher-student relationships from the perspective of the teacher. Her interests include social cognition, motivation, interpersonal relationships, (student) teacher expertise development and research based teacher education programs.
Taking Perspectives with Game Design: Teachers wanted for pilot!
The participants of the Playing Perspectives workshop at the Onderwijsfestival at Utrecht University are fully engaged in conversation. The striking photo on the table is what they’re talking about. Because what do you see in this photo? What stands out and what is your interpretation? This turns out to be quite different for each participant.
Fostering an Open Mind – First Test of WP2
On June 7th 2024, the Fostering an open mind and open attitude in higher education using games and art-based educational activities (Open Mind) project ran an initial play test of the first two components of Work Packet 2 (WP2), a toolbox to aid students in building games that deal with often complex and polarizing topics in an approachable manner.