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Developing a culture to support peer review of teaching in higher education

This presentation addresses issues related to leadership, academic development and scholarship of teaching and learning, and highlights research funded by the Australian Office of Learning and Teaching (OLT) designed to embed and sustain peer review of teaching within the culture of 5 Australian universities: Queensland University of Technology, University of Technology, Sydney, University of Adelaide, Curtin University, and Charles Darwin University. Peer review of teaching in higher education will be emphasised as a professional process for providing feedback on teaching and learning practice, which if sustained, can become an effective ongoing strategy for academic development (Barnard et al, 2011; Bell, 2005; Bolt and Atkinson, 2010; McGill & Beaty 2001, 1992; Kemmis & McTaggart, 2000). The research affirms that using developmental peer review models (Barnard et al, 2011; D'Andrea, 2002; Hammersley-Fletcher & Orsmond, 2004) can bring about successful implementation, especially when implemented within a distributive leadership framework (Spillane & Healey, 2010). The project’s aims and objectives were to develop leadership capacity and integrate peer review as a cultural practice in higher education. The research design was a two stage inquiry process over 2 years. The project began in July 2011 and encompassed a development and pilot phase followed by a cascade phase with questionnaire and focus group evaluation processes to support ongoing improvement and measures of outcome. Leadership development activities included locally delivered workshops complemented by the identification and support of champions. To optimise long term sustainability, the project was implemented through existing learning and teaching structures and processes within the respective partner universities. Research outcomes highlight the fundamentals of peer review of teaching and the broader contextual elements of integration, leadership and development, expressed as a conceptual model for embedding peer review of teaching within higher education. The research opens a communicative space about introduction of peer review that goes further than simply espousing its worth and introduction. The conceptual model highlights the importance of development of distributive leadership capacity, integration of policies and processes, and understanding the values, beliefs, assumptions and behaviors embedded in an organizational culture. The presentation overviews empirical findings that demonstrate progress to advance peer review requires an ‘across-the-board’ commitment to embed change, and inherently demands a process that co-creates connection across colleagues, discipline groups, and the university sector. Progress toward peer review of teaching as a cultural phenomenon can be achieved and has advantages for academic staff, scholarship, teaching evaluation and an organisation, if attention is given to strategies that influence the contexts and cultures of teaching practice. Peer review as a strategy to develop excellence in teaching is considered from a holistic perspective that by necessity encompasses all elements of an educational environment and has a focus on scholarship of teaching. The work is ongoing and has implication for policy, research, teaching development and student outcomes, and has potential application world-wide.

LeaD-In : a cultural change model for peer review of teaching in higher education

Peer review of teaching is recognized increasingly as one strategy for academic development even though historically peer review of teaching is often unsupported by policy, action and culture in many Australian universities. Higher education leaders report that academics generally do not engage with peer review of teaching in a systematic or constructive manner, and this paper advances and analyses a conceptual model to highlight conditions and strategies necessary for the implementation of sustainable peer review in higher education institutions. The model highlights leadership, development and implementation, which are critical to the success and formation of a culture of peer review of teaching. The work arises from collaborative research funded by the Office for Learning and Teaching to foster and advance a culture of peer review of teaching across several universities in Australia.

Service user involvement in teaching about conflict - an exploration of the issues

Service user involvement is now a well embedded feature of social work
education in the United Kingdom. Whilst many education institutions have
fully embraced the involvement of service users in teaching, there is still
work to be done in more fully engaging with service users who are seldom
heard. This article highlights the opportunities and challenges associated
with innovative work being piloted in Northern Ireland where victims and
survivors of political conflict are routinely involved in teaching social work
students about the impact of conflict on their lives.

Balancing the role of the dental school in teaching, research and patient care; including care for underserved areas

Inequalities within dentistry are common and are reflected in wide differences in the levels of oral health and the standard of care available both within and between countries and communities. Furthermore there are patients, particularly those with special treatment needs, who do not have the same access to dental services as the general public. The dental school should aim to recruit students from varied backgrounds into all areas covered by the oral healthcare team and to train students to treat the full spectrum of patients including those with special needs. It is essential, however, that the dental student achieves a high standard of clinical competence and this cannot be gained by treating only those patients with low expectations for care. Balancing these aspects of clinical education is difficult. Research is an important stimulus to better teaching and better clinical care. It is recognized that dental school staff should be active in research, teaching, clinical work and frequently administration. Maintaining a balance between the commitments to clinical care, teaching and research while also taking account of underserved areas in each of these categories is a difficult challenge but one that has to be met to a high degree in a successful, modern dental school.

Project work in a Basque L2 classroom: students’ perceptions

[EN] Project Work has been acknowledged as an efficient medium for language learning for more than two decades (Stoller, 2006) according to the numerous successful applications of project-based programmes that have been reported. In spite of the lack of sufficient controlled studies to assess the benefits of project work, and the existence of some studies giving evidence of students discontent with project work, the reports given by second language (SL) and foreign language students (FL) who have experienced project based instruction give support to the success attributed to project-based learning, as they recognised having improved language skills, learnt content, developed real life skills, as well as gained in self-confidence and motivation (Sierra, 2008 and 2011; Stoller, 2006). The aim of the present study is to explore some key issues involved in implementing a project-based programme focusing on the students’ perceptions of learning gains, their views on the collaborative assessment scheme used in the programme, and the students’ overall evaluations of the implementation of project work in a post-compulsory secondary education context in Navarre, Spain, with students learning Basque as a second language. A group of 12 students enrolled in a project work based programme participated in the study. Results showed that the students’ perceptions were very positive concerning doing projects, learning gains and group work, although more grammar instruction and teacher-fronted activities were requested by the students. However, the collaborative assessment process and the use of a Notebook/Diary as a reflection tool bore mixed evaluations.

“What are they really doing?” An exploration of student learning activities in field placement

Social work students consistently identify their field placement as having the most impact on their learning. Despite this, research on learning activities used during placement and the impact on practice competency and social work identity is limited. This is the second paper from a research study exploring student experiences of learning on placement. Data were gathered from 263 social work students about 14 key learning activities they experienced during placement. The more regularly students engaged in learning activities with their social work supervisor, the more likely they were to report a sense of social work identity and feelings of practice competence. However, the regular use of learning activities varied widely between placements. Surprisingly, approximately half the students did not regularly have the opportunity to observe social work practice, have their practice observed, or to link social work theory and the Code of Ethics to their practice with their social work supervisor.

Entre a lei e a luta: o movimento pela saúde do trabalhador docente

Esse trabalho tem como perspectiva colocar em análise o modo pelo qual os movimentos sociais vêm abordando as questões da saúde do trabalhador docente em suas lutas, não apenas como ausência de doença, mas como um estado em que a saúde rompe com os limites do previsível. Estabelecemos como foco de análise a atuação dos movimentos sociais em educação, em especial o Fórum Nacional em Defesa da Escola Pública na LDB, como um espaço/tempo de proposição e articulação do movimento que busca, para o trabalho docente, a saúde. Trazemos como questão a tensão entre o modelo de gestão presente na atualidade e a proposta de gestão apresentada pelos movimentos que vinculavam a emergência dos conselhos de participação social como uma forma de intensificar a implementação de um Estado democrático. Retomar o processo de aprovação da LDB é retomar um processo de lutas e de golpe na vida dos educadores, por isso nosso interesse em buscar saídas, espaços de tensão onde os movimentos estão presentes, onde a saúde prevalece.

Formação de Formadores e Educação Superior na cibercultura: itinerâncias de Grupos de Pesquisa no Facebook

Esta tese origina-se da pesquisa de doutoramento na Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro UERJ - Proped e tem como objetivo compreender a formação do formador no contexto da cibercultura e como este vem estruturando sua atuação na docência universitária. Este trabalho faz parte do eixo 2 da Pesquisa Institucional A cibercultura na era das redes sociais e da mobilidade: novas potencialidades para a formação de professores. O campo da pesquisa foi a rede social Facebook. Constituíram-se praticantes da pesquisa seis professores-formadores do ProPEd e seus orientandos. A pertinência desta pesquisa inscreveu-se num amplo movimento da perspectiva epistemológica da multirreferencialidade com os cotidianos e pelo método atualizado da pesquisa-formação. A intenção primeira deste trabalho consistiu em mapear as experiências e itinerâncias do formador em suas práticas cotidianas nos espaçostempos da cibercultura. Tencionamos que a sistematização de ambiências formativas articulando o espaço da universidade e das redes sociais criou redes de docência e aprendizagem. Como dispositivos de pesquisa, lançamos mão de oficinas, interações nas redes sociais, conversas, participação nos grupos de pesquisa. A tese revela que a formação do formador na cibercultura forja outros espaçostempos de pesquisa acadêmica e de criação de dispositivos online. Revela também que os usos do digital em rede pelos praticantes da pesquisa fizeram emergir processos de orientação coletiva, de experiências formadoras e de articulação da interface cidadeuniversidade, estabelecendo outros sentidos para a prática pedagógica e para a pesquisa acadêmica

Changing Professional Identity in the Transition from Practitioner to Lecturer in Higher Education: an Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis

This research explores the experiences of five professional practitioners from disciplines including teaching, youth work, sport and health who had become lecturers in Higher Education. Their experiences are considered using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis and tentative conclusions are reached on the meaning of such experiences for the individuals. The work extends previous studies (Shreeve 2010, 2011; Gourlay 2011a, 2011b; Boyd & Harris 2010) to consider the relationship between knowledge and influence and how institutional preference for knowledge gained from research impacts on the validity of knowledge derived from professional experience. The research finds shared feelings associated with inauthenticity and loss arising from concerns that the contribution of the professional in Higher Education is undervalued. The research challenges the assumption that professional practitioners adopt the professional identity of a lecturer in Higher Education instead finding that they create their own professional identities in the liminal space between the professional and academic domains, but points to difficulties associated with constructed nature of such professional identities within the institutional structure of a Higher Education institution.

A diferença evolutiva de alunos do projeto Orquestra Geração e das escolas vocacionais de música: a importância dos agentes de motivação

Resumo I (Prática Pedagógica) - Nesta secção do relatório de estágio pretende-se expor e caracterizar todos os elementos referentes à prática pedagógica, integrada no estágio, que ocorreu em parceria com a Escola de Música do Conservatório Nacional (EMCN) e o Projecto Orquestra Geração realizado no ano letivo de 2014/2015. Este tem por objetivo, a abordagem dos aspetos pedagógicos, as metodologias de ensino, a eficácia do trabalho, a motivação e os agentes motivacionais. Para a elaboração deste relatório, foram observados e devidamente analisados três alunos de forma peculiar. Porém, é de realçar que um dos intervenientes pertencia à EMCN e as aulas apenas eram observadas. Ao longo do ano letivo foram elaborados individualmente para cada aluno, vinte e dois planos de aula e ainda realizadas três gravações de aulas que foram vistas pelo professor orientador. À posteriori serão caraterizadas as duas entidades que fizeram parceria, contribuindo para a possível realização do relatório de estágio. Será abordada a sua contextualização histórica, os parâmetros de ensino, o contexto sociocultural. De seguida, será apresentada a caraterização dos três alunos, abordando nomeadamente, o seu meio envolvente, os métodos de estudo e a evolução motora, expressiva e auditiva. Serão analisadas e descritas algumas das práticas de ensino, desenvolvidas quer ao longo das aulas individuais, quer da observação das gravações e da análise constante dos planos de aulas e das planificações. Para finalizar o relatório de estágio, será elaborada uma reflexão crítica, acerca do desempenho como docente e respetiva prática pedagógica trabalhada com os alunos.

Étude exploratoire et comparative de la culture organisationnelle de deux commissions scolaires du Québec : une commission scolaire francophone et une commission scolaire anglophone : le point de vue de cadres intermédiaires.

Cette recherche est issue d'un questionnement personnel au regard d'impressions singulières ressenties lors de certaines interactions professionnelles avec des confrères de commissions scolaires distinctes au niveau de la langue d’enseignement. Elle compare les cultures organisationnelles de deux commissions scolaires différentes par la langue d'enseignement et de travail : une commission scolaire francophone et une commission scolaire anglophone. Ces cultures organisationnelles sont esquissées à partir de propos recueillis auprès de cadres intermédiaires issus de différentes unités administratives de chacune des commissions scolaires. Ce statut d'emploi a été choisi car ces cadres sont au cœur des flux informationnels entre le sommet stratégique et les centres opérationnels. De plus, bien qu’ils interviennent officiellement dans les processus consultatifs et décisionnels de leur commission scolaire, leurs rôles sont peu étudiés par les chercheurs en administration. Cette recherche exploratoire de deux commissions scolaires utilise une approche multiperspective afin d'éclairer les différentes facettes que peut présenter une culture organisationnelle. Trois perspectives sont considérées : la perspective de l'intégration qui explore les caractéristiques culturelles qui favorisent une cohérence des comportements des acteurs aux objectifs organisationnels; la perspective de la différenciation qui tente de discerner l'existence de sous-cultures dans les organisations; la perspective de la fragmentation qui interroge les significations particulières que peuvent attribuer, aux actions et aux décisions des pairs, certains regroupement d'individus. Deux processus d'enquête ont été utilisés dans cette recherche : l'interview semi-directif et la recherche documentaire. Les données recueillies ont été analysées selon le procédé de l'analyse thématique. Ainsi, les propos émis par les cadres intermédiaires ont été transposés en un certain nombre de thèmes en rapport avec l'orientation de recherche. Les résultats révèlent que les cadres intermédiaires sont des acteurs réflexifs dans l'appropriation, la construction et la diffusion de la culture générale de leur commission scolaire, mais également d'une culture identitaire de leur unité administrative. De plus, des différences significatives ont été identifiées, entre autres, sur l'identification des éléments culturels propre à chacun des groupes linguistiques. Alors que les cadres de la commission scolaire francophone décrivent leur culture comme une structure d'encadrement des processus consultatifs, décisionnels et d'accompagnement, les cadres de la commission scolaire anglophone mentionnent surtout des valeurs associées à des postulats de base issus de leur appartenance linguistique.

Relações de género a nível de currículo e prática docente

Este trabalho analisa a forma com que é tratado o Currículo a partir da Prática Docente acerca do trabalho em vivência sobre temas relacionados às Relações de Gênero na Escola Estadual de Referência em Ensino Médio de Panelas – Pernambuco - Brasil. Um trabalho situado entre os estudos de Ciências da Educação, onde inicia uma reflexão sobre o conceito de gênero, onde referencia os teóricos Joan Scott, Guacira Louro, Claúdia Vianna, Sandra Unbehaum, Marion Quadros, Branca Alves, Cavaleiro, Michel Foucault, Mary Del Priore, ainda tratou do conceito de Currículo defendidos por Michael Apple, Silva, Lopes, e por fim a discussão de Prática Docente a partir da visão de Arroyo, entre outros. Foi seguido uma relação de estudos acadêmicos acerca de como cuidava-se do tema sobre Relações de Gênero no âmbito escolar ao passar dos tempos, percebendo a pouca vivência de tema de tal importância para formação sociocultural do ser, assim como um apanhado sobre a importância de se ater-se ao currículo da escola para melhor desenvoltura por parte do professor, foram discutidos os vários significados do que venha a ser a formação cultural do ser homem e mulher a partir de uma comparação da sociedade mais antiga até os dias atuais, a importância de incluir no currículo escolar temas como Relações de Gênero e como vinha sendo a prática docente a cerca destes assuntos. A pesquisa teve um caráter qualitativo e quantitativo, desenvolvida em uma escola estadual da cidade de Panelas – Pernambuco, durante os anos de 2011 e 2012. Os dados para a realização empírica foram obtidos por meio de questionários aplicados aos estudantes e por meio de entrevistas junto aos educadores. A grande importância de ater-se aos dados gerados a partir da participação dos sujeitos, deu-se a condição de questionamentos de como estava sendo aplicado o trabalho referente a relações de gênero na escola, sobre a prática docente e como era a vivência do currículo neste ensejo. Desta forma, tento mostrar que os estudos de gênero podem instigar o cidadão a conhecer e compreender a necessidade deste trabalho sobre relações de gênero para a formação cultural do cidadão, e perceber a falta de formação do docente, para que se possa dar o devido valor à construção da educação.