Project
From anxiety to self-efficacy: Daring spaces as learning environments for living labs
Living labs are relatively new learning environments in which students work self-directed on real-life, wicked problems.
Students struggle to shift to a more autonomous mindset while engaging with highly ambiguous and complex cases. The resulting anxiety negatively impacts their self-efficacy and learning in the lab. In this research,external PhD-candidate Mirthe van den Heesets out to explore how the sociological concept of ‘daring spaces’ – a safe and challenging environment for all participants – can be developed within the living lab as a practical, educational framework. The ambition is to explore how daring spaces can create an appropriate learning environment for students to develop their self-efficacy. Mirthe van den Hee is a researcher and living lab-coach at Inholland University of Applied Sciences in Amsterdam and starts September 1st2023 with her PhD at ELS.