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Encouraging Vulnerable Learning: Student Responses to Groupwork Experience

Abstract Theological educators who use groupwork to help students unpack their practical placement experience know the value of this approach for students' learning. In this article I discuss feedback from one group of students to their own experience of groupwork. I do this using ideas adopted from what Mike Higton calls "Vulnerable Learning." Higton has identified four significant aspects of learning at H.E. level: the importance of space for learning, practising uncertainty, taking time, and learning together. These four aspects become the framework for the student feedback and the analysis of it. The article also considers the challenges of learning from practice as well as issues that arise from learning in groups. Through listening to their feedback, I gain a better understanding of students' perspectives on how the groupwork helped their learning. This enables me to be a more effective facilitator with other groups of students. The article ends by suggesting a number of implications for theological educators more generally.