This book puts the structure and function of knowledge firmly in the
driving seat of university curriculum development and teaching
practice. Through the application of concept mapping, the structure of
knowledge can be visualised to offer an explicit perspective on key
issues such as curriculum design, student learning and assessment
feedback. Structural visualisation allows a greater scrutiny of the
qualitative characteristics of knowledge so that we can analyse
students’ patterns of learning and match them to expert practice.
Based on nearly two decades of research and direct observations of
university teaching by the author, this book aims to offer a scholarly
account of teacher development. It focusses on elements that will be
of immediate utility to academics who want to develop their teaching
to a level of adaptive experts, offering them greater autonomy in
their role and a powerful understanding of teaching to escape the
repressive routines of the traditional classroom. Rather than
providing a comprehensive review of educational research, this book
provides a route through selected theories that can be explored in
practice by university teachers on their own or in groups. The book
will help academics to identify the nature of powerful knowledge
within their disciplines and consider ways that this may be used by
students to become active and engaged learners through the
manipulation and transformation of knowledge, and so become expert
students.
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A Knowledge Structures Perspective on Teaching and Learning at University
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9789463006279
Publisert
2018
Utgiver
Vendor
SensePublishers
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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