SMU LifeLessons® is a learning framework that takes students beyond the classroom, on a transformative journey that helps them uncover their personal values and purpose. Developed to complement Singapore Management University’s four-year academic undergraduate programmes, its aim is to engage undergraduates in co-curricular learning that would better prepare them to be their best, for others.
Recognising the importance of metacognition within the learning process, the curriculum team looked into developing a tool that would aid undergraduates in reflective practice through their four years at university. Modelled after a journal (to encourage reflective writing) the tool is comprised of resources, exercises
and questions that could be approached in no specific order, and in a self-directed manner.
All editorial and design decisions were grounded in the tool’s primary principles of being authoritative, yet encouraging towards a learner’s sense of agency. As such, the tool was dubbed the SMU LifeLessons Pathfinder journal to emphasise the point that one’s learning journey would not be dictated. Instead, it would be up to each learner to ‘find’ and direct his or her own path.
EDITORIAL
Regina De Rozario, Bervyn Lee, Clarissa Soo
EDITORIAL DESIGN, ILLUSTRATION & PRINT DESIGN
Seah Sze Yunn
PRINT PRODUCTION
Grandluxe Pte Ltd
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