{"id":1039,"date":"2013-07-15T11:05:32","date_gmt":"2013-07-15T11:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/copyright.lboro.ac.uk\/teachingandlearning\/?p=1039"},"modified":"2013-07-15T11:05:32","modified_gmt":"2013-07-15T11:05:32","slug":"peer-support-in-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/2013\/07\/15\/peer-support-in-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Peer support in action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teachingandlearning\/?attachment_id=1040\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1040\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1040\" alt=\"eps\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teachingandlearning\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/eps.gif\" width=\"150\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>Currently appearing\u00a0in the international journal\u00a0<a title=\"European Political Science\" href=\"http:\/\/www.palgrave-journals.com\/eps\/index.html\">European Political Science <\/a>as an advance online publication, <a title=\"Prof Helen Drake\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lboro.ac.uk\/departments\/phir\/staff\/helen-drake.html\">Helen Drake<\/a> from the <a title=\"PHIR\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lboro.ac.uk\/departments\/phir\/\">Department of Politics, History and International Relations<\/a>\u00a0(PHIR) has just published\u00a0an article entitled \u201cLearning from peers: the role of the student advisor in internationalising the european studies curriculum&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The abstract reads: \u201cThis article asks whether student peer advisors can contribute to curriculum \u2018internationalisation\u2019 through their role in promoting and supporting student mobility. We conducted a single case study of Erasmus student mobility at Loughborough University between 2010\u20132012, and our experiment offers a perspective on the possible futures of European Studies<i>,<\/i> where the decline of foreign language learning may find compensation in the internationalisation of the curriculum via the opportunity for study mobility abroad.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Part of a symposium regarding the teaching of European Studies, this article\u00a0\u2013 forthcoming in print \u2013 explores the role that students can themselves play in shaping the curriculum, in advancing the student experience, and in internationalising study programmes. Successive generations of PHIR students have already demonstrated how they can influence their peers. For example,\u00a0through their\u00a0use of technology and social media, students returning\u00a0from\u00a0abroad\u00a0influence future student choices, as suggested by\u00a0resources such as\u00a0the recent\u00a0<a title=\"YouTube video\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lboro.ac.uk\/services\/teachingcentre\/educationalthemes\/supportforstudents\/peersupportdirectory\/content\/phir-internationalising-degrees\/\">YouTube video<\/a> created\u00a0for the benefit of\u00a0those thinking about an Erasmus exchange.<\/p>\n<p>This is\u00a0the\u00a0fourth\u00a0in\u00a0our series of blog posts regarding publications by Loughborough University staff on pedagogical issues. Further information regarding this particular publication is available <a title=\"EPS\" href=\"http:\/\/www.palgrave-journals.com\/eps\/journal\/vaop\/ncurrent\/full\/eps201332a.html\">online<\/a>; the full citation follows: Helen Drake,\u00a0\u201dLearning from peers: the role of the student advisor in internationalising the european studies curriculum\u201d, in\u00a0<em>European Political Science<\/em>, advance online publication 7 June 2013. doi: 10.1057\/eps.2013.32<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Currently appearing\u00a0in the international journal\u00a0European Political Science as an advance online publication, Helen Drake from the Department of Politics, History and International Relations\u00a0(PHIR) has just published\u00a0an article entitled \u201cLearning from peers: the role of the student advisor in internationalising the european studies curriculum&#8221;. The abstract reads: \u201cThis article asks whether student peer advisors can contribute<a class=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/2013\/07\/15\/peer-support-in-action\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":1040,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pedagogic-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}