Enhancing the Links Between Staff Research and Student Learning
University staff are invited to attend a presentation by visiting
academic
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Westminster Institute, Oxford Brookes University, UK
Monday 25th October 2004
Council Room, First Floor, Building 3A
Monash University, Clayton Campus
11.30am - 1.00pm |
"I believe that the main hope for realising a genuinely student
centred undergraduate education lies in re-engineering the
teaching-research nexus." Paul Ramsden (2001, 4), Pro Vice
Chancellor, Learning and Teaching, University of Sydney.
In Scholarship Reconsidered Ernst Boyer (1990, xii) challenged
US higher education to "break away out of the tired old teaching
versus research debate". This workshop focus will then be on
what you as an individual, as a member of a course team, can do to enhance
the potential positive links and minimise the negative links between staff
research and student learning. You will thus review what you already
do to link R and T and most of all take away ideas and strategies to
strengthen the links. It will enable you to address these issues
whatever your role within higher education. The examples used by the
presenter, will be drawn from international experience; in particular
Australasia, UK and North America.
Note: the focus here is on (staff) research in the disciplines per se
(not on pedagogic research on higher education) i.e. the relationship
between student learning in the discipline (e.g geology or women's
studies, with (faculty) research in that discipline.
Some questions to consider
- What does the research tells us about the relationship between the
quality of teaching and staff research?
- Is it important for (undergraduate) students to be taught by staff
involved in research - if so how 'cutting edge' does that research
need to be?
- What is appropriate/good practice for a student on your course/in
your department/institution to experience re: teaching and research?
- How could the curriculum be organised/taught/assessed to maximise
the effective links between teaching and (staff) research?
Please RSVP to Iliana Findikakis by 22 October via e-mail
or on extension 55058
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