Team Based Learning: An Inclusive Learning Methodology to Increase Engagement and Integration of Diverse Student Groups

Abstract

Creating an engaging, inclusive, and supportive learning environment within higher education is challenging at the best of times. When considering refugees and learners who have been displaced from their home/region country due to war, this is paramount to enable continued learning. Team-based learning (TBL) is an active learning methodology whereby the learners take ownership of their learning and work within peer teams to deepen their learning through the application of knowledge. In the context of the above setting, TBL offers a number of key advantages over traditional didactic learning approaches to better support diverse student groups and aid learner integration. This chapter explores these advantages and details how TBL is not just a method of content delivery, but an approach which can bring about increased peer support (on campus and online), an increased sense of student belongingness and community, employability skills, and so on.

Citation

Hewitt, M., Butler, B. and Butler, R. (2024), "Team Based Learning: An Inclusive Learning Methodology to Increase Engagement and Integration of Diverse Student Groups", Sengupta, E. (Ed.) War, Mobility, Displacement and Their Impact on Higher Education (Innovations in Higher Education Teaching and Learning, Vol. 55), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 85-101. https://doi.org/10.1108/S2055-364120240000055006