After eighteen months in Kyiv, which has been busy working on numerous projects and outputs, I managed to finally undertake some teaching. Despite this being, the first time teaching in Kyiv I have previously gone to several universities for meetings, but it is always nice to actually engage and interact with a student cohort. Despite living and interacting within a culture, engaging in an education system always helps you to understand the culture more. I delivered an entrepreneurship class to journalism students at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. The class focused on highlighting the difference between management and entrepreneurship and I sought to demonstrate this using the classic jigsaw and patchwork quilt activity. This was rather challenging given the class had approximately 120 students, and the students were more familiar with traditional didactic teaching methods, but I always like a challenge and the key learning points seemed to transfer to the cohort. Unfortunately, the closure of the public schools and universities the following week due to the spread of Corona Virus, curtailed any additional teaching this semester, but it is always nice to engage with a new cohort even if only for a short while.
Robin Bell 