Gustav
My Passion & How I Inspire
My aim is to understand my tutee’s needs, formulate learning objectives accordingly, and design appropriate teaching and learning activities that stimulate deep comprehension, critical thinking, and a fascination for the subject. To that end, I aim to establish a conducive and relaxed environment in which the student and I work together as per the student’s individual goals.
I firmly believe that teasing out each student’s own interests and ideas and connecting them meaningfully to the study subject is the best way for any student to learn, retain knowledge, and develop an interest to read and study further. I see my role in teaching and learning as a facilitator and moderator of a student-driven process. Through a wide variety of active learning techniques, examples, readings and in close interaction with the student, I aim to contribute my own fascination for politics and international relations to help my tutee excel in his or her studies.
To that end, it is first necessary to approach the basics. Concepts and theories of international relations are tools necessary to decipher the language of the discipline, but at times they can seem frustratingly opaque. My role is to help my tutee cut through the jungle of theoretical abstraction and develop their own approaches to handling these tools confidently and competently. These abilities are closely connected with developing the necessary academic skills, especially reading, arguing, and writing succinctly and effectively. On this basis and as per the student’s individual learning objectives, we can then tackle increasingly complex concepts and tasks in political thought and the fascinating world of real-life international politics.
