About the seminar
There is increasing attention given to encouraging more active student learning. In 2021, the Master’s Programme ‘Theory and Practice of Human Rights’ at the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights (NCHR), for example, began a partnership with Scholars at Risk (SAR) as part of reforms to encourage more active learning, and to close the gap between theory and practice. In one of the Programme’s courses (Human Rights in Practice) students form groups, known as Student Advocacy Seminars, to advocate on behalf of imprisoned academics in selected cases and countries and for academic freedom at large. This “real-world” learning environment has fostered high levels of student participation and creativity, all while accomplishing pre-set course learning objectives.
The Student Advocacy Seminars offer a template for other University programmes to adopt in engaging active learning. Come to this lunchtime seminar to hear more from Scholars at Risk and the NCHR staff and students about how you can do this at your own institution.
This will be a hybrid seminar. The Zoom link will be provided to registered participants.
About the speakers
Special guest Adam Braver (Chair of the SAR-U.S. steering committee) will join us in Oslo, along with Director of the Master’s in Human Rights in Theory and Practice programme Peris Sean Jones and student project leaders during this lunch presentation at the NCHR.
- Adam Braver acts as the chair of the Scholars at Risk-United States Steering Committee. Braver is also an accomplished author and professor at Roger William University in Bristol, Rhode Island. In his role as chair of the SAR-United States Steering Committee, Braver helps coordinate SAR’s U.S. network to work together to protect threatened scholars and promote academic freedom.
- Scholars at Risk is an international network of institutions and individuals whose mission it is to protect scholars and promote academic freedom. Read more about SAR here (scholarsatrisk.org).