Placing ourselves to confront present and future curriculum challenges
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Keesing-Styles, Linda
Ayres, Robert
Nash, Simon
Ayres, Robert
Nash, Simon
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2013
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Conference Contribution - Oral Presentation
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curriculum renewal
pedagogy
reflective teaching
teacher development
pedagogy
reflective teaching
teacher development
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Keesing-Styles, L., Ayres, R., and Nash, S. (2013). Placing ourselves to confront present and future curriculum challenges. Paper presented at Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia Conference, Auckland: New Zealand.
Abstract
This presentation reports on research into a whole of institution curriculum renewal project in a New Zealand tertiary institution. The project - influenced by the work of writers including Barnett (2000), Doll (2002) and Barnett and Coate (2005) - aimed to reframe learning as ‘conversation’ and develop programmes that are integrated with the world and genuinely dynamic. During the project, teachers were inevitably challenged to reflect on their ontological and epistemological beliefs (Ball, 2003) and to consider a range of pedagogical implications. While the institutional project focused on curriculum reform, the researchers who carried out a parallel investigation into teacher perspectives confronted the implications for teachers’ sense of identity and for their pedagogies in these new places. The institutional project was underpinned by explicit assumptions and expectations around what a teacher needs to ‘be’ in their role and the types of pedagogies they might employ.
Using departmental focus groups and interviews with teachers, the research identified through thematic analysis what helped and hindered the process of rethinking ‘teacher’. It also captured changes in teachers’ beliefs and practices and considered whether teachers were any better placed to meet contemporary educational challenges as a result of their reflections. The presentation will outline key findings from the project that address these issues and report on the subsequent interventions designed to resolve them.
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Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia (HERDSA)
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