Unit 4

Unit Four
Redefinition, Internalization and Reintegration
Phase 1: Redefinition
o Facilitate students in the redefinition of previous understandings and to internalize new definitions and bodies of knowledge.
o Facilitate the group as a collective in redefining previous shared understandings and individual and group identities.
o Facilitate students to develop positive learning identities based on agency and responsibility as the teaching and learning roles in class continue to shift in new directions.
o Facilitate students in recognizing, understanding and acknowledging differences and to feel a sense of ownership for their experiences and knowledge.
Phase 2: Internalization
[Higher risk learning experiences]
o Help the students to incorporate their new understandings to redefine their learning practices.
o Facilitate higher risk learning experiences and move towards conceptualizing and theorizing about personal and group practices.
o Help students to develop personal theoretical positions towards issues that influence their learning.
o Encourage students to adopt a positive attitude towards change and identify areas for change.
o Help to motivate student action and initiatives for change.
o Help students to identify a wide variety of possible actions and ways in which to approach and support their new ideas.
o Facilitate students in testing their new ideas in the group and within a wider framework.
Phase 3: Reintegration
o Help students to apply the integration of new understandings into all aspects of their lives.
o Emphasize the embodied integration of new bodies of knowledge into multiple realms of experience inside and outside of the classroom.
o Help students to embrace their new perspective for life and to structure decisions from these perspectives and to transform personal and group practices.
o Facilitate students in the reintegration of new awareness and understandings into their lives and practices.
o Facilitate a culminating experience and closure for the groups learning experience. Have the group dialogue about the things they learned and to discussion their visions for the future.
o Help students to set goals for their future inspired by the fruits of this learning process.

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