Monday, October 01, 2007
September conferencing
At the beginning of September I had a busy time presenting at a couple of international conferences: the Improving Student Learning Symposium (ISL), in its fifteenth year, held at Triinity College, Dublin and the 2nd iPED (inquiring pedagogies) Conference held at Coventry University.
The ISL theme was "Improving Student Learning - for what?" so I presented a paper entitled "Working to learn - valuing placements" looking at learning from work placements. The paper was written in conjunction with Abigail Powell (a social science researcher currently working on a european project in the Department of Civil & Building Engineering). Abi collected the data we analysed and used for the paper while working for engCETL last year.
The iPED Conference was titled "Researching Academic Futures" and my paper titled "Promulgating Pedagogy: Convincing Colleagues" was submitted under the Leading Academic Learning theme (the conference proceedings will be available soon at which time I will put in a link). The paper dealt with the experience of being a pedagogic researcher in the alien culture of a unit not used to conducting pedagogic research, within a university that focuses on subject specific research rather than teaching and learning and a discipline culture, engineering, that is suspicious of an emerging discipline, pedagogy, that it considers less than rigorous due to a focus on perceptions and the use of qualitative methods.
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The ISL theme was "Improving Student Learning - for what?" so I presented a paper entitled "Working to learn - valuing placements" looking at learning from work placements. The paper was written in conjunction with Abigail Powell (a social science researcher currently working on a european project in the Department of Civil & Building Engineering). Abi collected the data we analysed and used for the paper while working for engCETL last year.
The iPED Conference was titled "Researching Academic Futures" and my paper titled "Promulgating Pedagogy: Convincing Colleagues" was submitted under the Leading Academic Learning theme (the conference proceedings will be available soon at which time I will put in a link). The paper dealt with the experience of being a pedagogic researcher in the alien culture of a unit not used to conducting pedagogic research, within a university that focuses on subject specific research rather than teaching and learning and a discipline culture, engineering, that is suspicious of an emerging discipline, pedagogy, that it considers less than rigorous due to a focus on perceptions and the use of qualitative methods.
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