Disciplinary specificity in university teaching

 Disciplinary
specificity in university teaching:

Moving
from conceptualisation to action

 

08
December 2008 – 12.15 to 15.45

CE102
in the CeAL Building

 

Centre
for Active Learning,

University
of Gloucestershire,
Francis Close Hall, Swindon
Road,

Cheltenham,
United
Kingdom

 

 

 

Presenters:              
Dr Denis
Berthiaume, Université de
Lausanne, Switzerland

Dr Anna
Jones, University of Melbourne,
Australia and Visiting CeAL
Fellow, University of
Gloucestershire, United
Kingdom

 

Discussant:               
Professor Kerri-Lee Krause

                       
           
Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia

 

Chair:
                        
Professor Kristine Mason O’Connor

                                   
University of
Gloucestershire, United
Kingdom

 

 

Duration:                    
3 hours

 

The
purpose of this workshop is to provide an illustration of recent research
developments in the area of disciplinary specificity in university teaching, and
to enable participants develop strategies for inclusion of these findings in
their own practice (i.e. university teaching, academic development and/or higher
education administration).The workshop will comprise two parts. The first will
be a presentation of recent research developments in the area of disciplinary
specificity with regards to university teaching. The second part will allow
participants to reflect on the concepts presented in order to envisage
strategies for their domain of practice.

 

This
workshop is based on two qualitative studies which examined the importance of
disciplinary specificity in teaching. The first study examines ways in which
teaching is part of a complex social system.  The second study examines the importance
of discipline-specific pedagogical knowledge (DPK) by presenting an empirical
model that describes how higher education teachers draw from their knowledge
base for teaching, the specific characteristics of their discipline, and their
personal beliefs about teaching.

 

Cost
including sandwich lunch - £30
(non-University of
Gloucestershire staff).
Cheques payable to University of Gloucestershire or please supply a
purchase order number for an invoice to be raised.

 

To book
your place please contact the CeAL Administrator, Barbara Rainbow – brainbow@glos.ac.uk, tel 01242
714683

 

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