{"id":1279,"date":"2025-12-10T17:14:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T17:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/journals.staffs.ac.uk\/index.php\/the-heros-journey-in-he-continues-applying-the-heros-journey-framework-to-curriculum-planning-and-course-design\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T17:14:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T17:14:09","slug":"the-heros-journey-in-he-continues-applying-the-heros-journey-framework-to-curriculum-planning-and-course-design","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/journals.staffs.ac.uk\/index.php\/the-heros-journey-in-he-continues-applying-the-heros-journey-framework-to-curriculum-planning-and-course-design\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hero\u2019s Journey (in HE) Continues: Applying the hero\u2019s journey framework to curriculum planning and course design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Volume:<\/strong> 6<br \/>\n<strong>Issue: <\/strong>3<br \/>\n<strong>Year:<\/strong> 2025<br \/>\n<strong>Author(s):<\/strong> Alke Gr\u00f6ppel-Wegener HE consultant: Tactile Academia, Robert Farmer University of Northampton<\/p>\n<p>Building on the ideas contained in Farmer&#8217;s &#8216;The Hero&#8217;s Journey in Higher Education: A Twelve Stage Narrative Approach to the Design of Active, Student-Centred University Modules&#8217; (2019), this current paper takes the idea of using the twelve stages of the hero\u2019s journey as a course design tool, and extends it by adding a series of diagnostic questions linked to the stages, the purpose of which is to develop Farmer\u2019s (2019) theoretical ideas into a more practically-oriented toolkit for educators. In the same spirit, this current paper also includes thoughts from workshop participants who have begun to make use of the hero\u2019s journey as a course design toolkit, drawing the tentative conclusion that, for some people at least, the idea provides a useful framework for course design.<\/p>\n<p>Keywords: Active Learning; Learning Design; Hero\u2019s Journey; Inclusive Curriculum; Narrative Framework; Teaching and Learning<\/p>\n<p><strong>Documents:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/journals.staffs.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/The_Heros_Journey_in_HE.docx\">The_Heros_Journey_in_HE.docx<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/journals.staffs.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/The_Heros_Journey_in_HE.pdf\">The_Heros_Journey_in_HE.pdf<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/journals.staffs.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/\"><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/journals.staffs.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/\"><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/journals.staffs.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Volume: 6 Issue: 3 Year: 2025 Author(s): Alke Gr\u00f6ppel-Wegener HE consultant: Tactile Academia, Robert Farmer University of Northampton Building on the ideas contained in Farmer&#8217;s &#8216;The Hero&#8217;s Journey in Higher Education: A Twelve Stage Narrative Approach to the Design of Active, Student-Centred University Modules&#8217; (2019), this current paper takes the idea of using the twelve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1279","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.staffs.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.staffs.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.staffs.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.staffs.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.staffs.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/journals.staffs.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.staffs.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}