ABSTRACT
The main principle of student ambassador training is self-experiential practice with activities they will then offer to pupils at schools. Student ambassadors need to feel confident in these activities in terms of their subject knowledge as well as their pedagogical approach. Therefore, to increase the ownership and confidence of student ambassadors in implementing self-experiential learning activities with younger pupils, it is key that these activities be co-created with student ambassadors themselves. This chapter will explore current training practices, and demonstrates the ways co-creation enables a shared responsibility between university staff and lecturers, schoolteachers, student ambassadors, and ideally younger pupils and experts from other relevant organisations (such as careers advisers). The authors will describe how each member of the learning community contributes with expertise related to their role as well as individual experience, and the benefits this has for training going forwards.
