Bricks, pics and a Japanese ‘matrix’: using coaching approaches to develop student agency through playful methods in tutorials

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Pope, M., Turner, I. and Ribchester, C. 2025. Bricks, pics and a Japanese ‘matrix’: using coaching approaches to develop student agency through playful methods in tutorials. in: Jarldorn, M. and Hudson, C. (ed.) Tutorial ideas for educators on the run: Innovative, engaging and social justice teaching Melbourne Springer. pp. 239–250
AuthorsPope, M., Turner, I. and Ribchester, C.
EditorsJarldorn, M. and Hudson, C.
Abstract

Coaching approaches can facilitate highly effective tutorial conversations that facilitate student identification and activation of their most ambitious aspirations, solutions, and methods for achieving their goals. This chapter provides three playful methods for facilitating coaching approaches: Lego® model-building; images; and the Japanese philosophy of ‘Ikigai’. These methods can generate student thinking that goes deeper than transactional conversations engender, creating a culture in which students proactively own their greatest goals and have agency over the actions they take towards achieving them.

KeywordsCoaching; Tutorials; Play; Social Work; Human services; Higher education; LEGO (R) Serious Play (R) ; Images; Ikigai
Page range239–250
Year2025
Book titleTutorial ideas for educators on the run: Innovative, engaging and social justice teaching
PublisherSpringer
Place of publicationMelbourne
Edition1st
ISBN9789819643493
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-96-4349-3_27
Web address (URL)https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-96-4349-3_27
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Publication dates17 May 2025
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