scholarly journals Reflection-in-action, still engaging the professional? Introduction Practising “Beyond the Stable State” Building Reflectiveness into Education to Develop Creative Practitioners The Transdisciplinarity Laboratory at the ETH Zurich: Fostering Reflection-in-Action in Higher Education Donald Schön's Legacy to Address the Great Divide Between Theory and PracticeThe Reflective Practitioner, Revisited: The Notion of Deep Understanding Concluding Notes

2010 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 597-619 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luca Bertolini ◽  
David Laws ◽  
Marilyn Higgins ◽  
Roland W. Scholz ◽  
Michael Stauffacher ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Stable State ◽  
Deep Understanding ◽  
State Building ◽  
Reflective Practitioner ◽  
Great Divide ◽  
Reflection In Action ◽  
Fostering Reflection

scholarly journals Workshops for subject-specific teachers’ training: A case study for teaching cancer biology

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lauren Pecorino ◽  
Richard Grose ◽  
Pinar Uysal-Onganer
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Cancer Biology ◽  
Good Practice ◽  
Deep Understanding ◽  
Teaching Experience ◽  
University Teaching ◽  
Subject Specific ◽  
Critical Components ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Teachers Training

Teachers’ training in higher education institutions widely serves general purposes. However, recent dialogues and research highlight the importance of teachers’ deep understanding of the material being taught and the ways students think about the content as critical components of great teaching. We explored the novelty of providing a one-day workshop entitled, ‘Effective strategies for teaching cancer biology’. The Biochemical Society supported the event and marketed it throughout the UK – not with any targeted level of university teaching experience and attendees therefore ranged from those who had never taught to those at the level of Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. The day included various short talks, the sharing of good practice and the opportunity to experience a demonstration lesson as a student. Twelve out of thirteen who provided feedback had not received previous subject-specific teacher-training. Half of the attendees gave feedback with the highest score out of five, having found the event ‘very valuable’. This experience suggests that subject-specific training may be beneficial and applicable to other subject areas.

scholarly journals Breaking Down Silos Working Meeting: An Approach to Fostering Cross-Disciplinary STEM–DBER Collaborations through Working Meetings

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. mr3
Author(s):  
Daniel L. Reinholz ◽  
Tessa C. Andrews
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education Research ◽  
Stem Education ◽  
Research Priorities ◽  
Deep Understanding ◽  
Institutional Transformation ◽  
Stem Fields ◽  
Professional Societies ◽  
Science Technology ◽  
And Mathematics

There has been a recent push for greater collaboration across the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields in discipline-based education research (DBER). The DBER fields are unique in that they require a deep understanding of both disciplinary content and educational research. DBER scholars are generally trained and hold professional positions in discipline-specific departments. The professional societies with which DBER scholars are most closely aligned are also often discipline specific. This frequently results in DBER researchers working in silos. At the same time, there are many cross-cutting issues across DBER research in higher education, and DBER researchers across disciplines can benefit greatly from cross-disciplinary collaborations. This report describes the Breaking Down Silos working meeting, which was a short, focused meeting intentionally designed to foster such collaborations. The focus of Breaking Down Silos was institutional transformation in STEM education, but we describe the ways the overall meeting design and structure could be a useful model for fostering cross-­disciplinary collaborations around other research priorities of the DBER community. We describe our approach to meeting recruitment, premeeting work, and inclusive meeting design. We also highlight early outcomes from our perspective and the perspectives of the meeting participants.

scholarly journals Re-imagining the Pedagogical Paradigm Within a Technology Mediated Learning Environment

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 138-145
Author(s):  
Ken Brown ◽  
Viola Larionova ◽  
Natalia Stepanova ◽  
Vic Lally
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Learning Environment ◽  
Professional Learning ◽  
Critical Realism ◽  
Deep Understanding ◽  
Approaches To Learning ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Mediated Learning ◽  
New Approaches ◽  
Educational Culture

AbstractTraditional didactic pedagogies employed within the culture of the Russian higher education system precluded students’ engagement with problems which were described as generating dissonances in learning cognition. Addressing issues of dissonance within the higher education learning sphere requires re-imagining the educational culture. Re-imagining provides an opportunity to promote new approaches to learning through alternative affordances; one such affordance is technology mediated learning.Pedagogical re-design within an alternative learning paradigm requires deep understanding of the problems associated with the previous paradigm. Re-imagined pedagogical scope for exploration of the professional, learning, cultural, institutional and technical aspects expand the knowledge base beyond the didactic towards an engaging student-centered ethos using open education and gamification.To address issues of learning, culture, technology, and institution, a convergent mixed methods design using student questionnaires and academic interviews alongside performance observations was employed. The research study examined the re-imagining of the educational culture to promote new approaches to learning through the affordances of technology mediated learning within a constructivist, critical realism epistemology using thematic analysis.The re-imagined pedagogical design within a technology mediated learning environment demonstrates a cultural shift towards an engaging and supportive educational experience. The lessons learned may be applied in other higher educational contexts.

scholarly journals Curriculum integration of sustainability in engineering education – a national study of programme director perspectives

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (5) ◽  
pp. 877-894
Author(s):  
Ola Leifler ◽  
Jon-Erik Dahlin
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Engineering Education ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Core Competencies ◽  
Deep Understanding ◽  
Learning Objectives ◽  
National Study ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Sustainability In Higher Education

Purpose This study aims to report on how programme directors address sustainability within engineering education at Swedish universities and engineering colleges. Design/methodology/approach The study was performed as a survey with follow-up interviews around the following core questions: to what extent do programme directors possess a deep understanding of the subject of sustainable development? Which are the core competencies in sustainable development that programme directors identify as important for their engineering students to acquire during their basic training? To what extent are those competencies integrated into engineering education today and what kind of support do programme directors receive from their department to integrate these competencies into the curriculum? Findings Programme directors believe that learning for sustainable development is important mainly based on their personal convictions. However, out of 10 potential learning objectives extracted from the literature, only four-six are implemented in degree programmes. Learning objectives and activities are not always aligned, as students are required to learn about interdisciplinary collaboration without working with students from other faculties. The programme directors receive some support from the department, but they express a need for additional support. Examples of support that they suggest are faculty training, efficient teaching material and incorporation of sustainability in the quality assessment instruments for degree programmes. Originality/value This study is the first comprehensive, national survey of what programme directors think about sustainability in higher education. Their views are important in the attempt to accelerate the integration of sustainability in higher education curricula.

From Reflective Practice to Critical Thinking

2020 ◽  
pp. 189-211
Author(s):  
Eva Cendon
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Reflective Practice ◽  
Developmental Model ◽  
Reflective Practitioner ◽  
Master's Programs ◽  
Empirical Basis ◽  
Professional Studies

This chapter explores the role of reflection and the development of reflexivity in programs of professional studies in higher education. Serving as empirical basis is a qualitative explorative longitudinal study with students in different master's programs at a University for Professional Studies, considering the students' perspective and their changing understanding and practice of reflection both at the workplace and in their studies. The students' perspective is complemented by an analysis of interviews with teachers in professional master's programs about their teaching strategies supporting students' learning. Linking these two perspectives leads to a developmental model of reflection over the course of studies that allows new ways of interpreting the reflective practitioner in higher education.

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