tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11274141935490890452024-02-20T17:12:49.512-08:00Contextual Influences on Professional Development in Higher Education in South Africa Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17080824875160812945noreply@blogger.comBlogger34125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1127414193549089045.post-2467480489997779132017-04-20T10:07:00.002-07:002017-04-20T10:07:49.011-07:00Final Project ReportThis project has reached its end. The final research project as CHE Higher Education Monitor 14, is available at:<br />
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http://www.che.ac.za/media_and_publications/higher-education-monitor/higher-education-monitor-14-learning-teach-higher<br />
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(copy the link and paste it in the web browser)Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17080824875160812945noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1127414193549089045.post-77164487741033830262016-12-17T03:36:00.004-08:002016-12-17T03:59:31.104-08:00Structure, Culture and Agency - Project Close and Final Publications<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><b>Personal note from Brenda - Project Leader</b></span><br />
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study on professional development
in higher education has finally come to an end, after six years of funding by the National Research Foundation. Now that it is over I can say 'thank you' to project members, it has been good, and I hope that we will meet in other research projects, or that you enjoy new ones you become involved in. </span><!--EndFragment--><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">My personal sense of the learnings from the project are:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><b>With regard to teaching and learning:</b></span><br />
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<li>the importance of 'professional learning' with all the ramifications of that phrase, rather than the one with which we started the project, 'professional development'</li>
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This has been uploaded onto a page on this blog, where you can access a draft. A print and e-version will be published by the CHE in 2017. </div>
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This book is born out of a fascination with the variety of theoretical frameworks one can use to theorise learning to teach and the value that these frameworks might have for one's research and strategising how to advance learning to teach in one's institution. The book contains chapters using the data from the project by Chris Winberg (using social realism), Viv Bozalek (using socio-materialism) and Brenda Leibowitz (talking about crossing over from one theoretical framework to another). The full range of contents are:</div>
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Special issue: Contextual Approaches to Academic Development </div>
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WHY A CONTEXTUAL APPROACH TO PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT? </div>
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<b>B. L. Leibowitz </b></div>
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One of the peculiarities of the literature on academic professional development with regard to teaching is its a-political nature. It pays insufficient attention to issues of equity, and to how privilege, geographical location, class and ethnicity influence the way that staff in higher education learn to teach. This is surprising, or paradoxical, given the strong world-wide concern for widening participation and student success in higher education. The approaches towards professional academic development have been dominated by literature from the global North, which does not take into account conditions in resource-constrained environments. We contend that literature from these Southern environments enrich the international body of literature. Thus there is a need for scholarly writing on learning to teach in higher education, which takes a specifically social, contextual and relational approach and which considers these within </div>
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Attention to the social and material influences on professional academic development allows for a nuanced understanding of how to strategise in order to enhance teaching and learning in varied contexts. This should enable academics, who are concerned with their own teaching and with contributing to change in their institutions, to chart appropriate strategies in the current complex and demanding era. </div>
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In the literature on professional development there is an increasing call for educational policies to be context sensitive (Mathieson 2012; Trowler 2008; Bamber, Trowler, Saunders and Knight 2009). As an example of this concern with context, Blackmore, Chambers, Huxley and Thackwray (2010) call for ‘contextual intelligence’. The word ‘context’ is often used to denote disciplinary context (cf. Mathieson 2012) or it can denote time, as in the phrase ‘in current contexts’, or domains such as ‘in the political context’. In the literature on situated learning the word ‘context’ suggests learning occurring through practice (Lave 1996) with a strong emphasis on history and biography (Lave 2012). The word ‘context’ is taken up in the work of Archer (1995) to imply ‘environment in which the (‘macro’) features of the system are either reproduced or transformed’ (Archer 1995, 11). This can refer to any level, from macro to micro. </div>
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Higher education institutions are contexts in which features of the sector may be either reproduced or transformed. Context can also refer to levels of the curriculum, for example the contextualised learning needs of lecturers on undergraduate programmes as opposed to those teaching on postgraduate programmes. It can refer to the professional learning of academics at different types of institutions or in different geographical locations. The concern with context can have a more overtly political overtone, for example, there is the need to consider professional academic development in post-colonial contexts or in neo-liberal times. Whatever the perspective adopted by the researcher or academic developer, the fact remains that strategies for the provision of opportunities for academics to learn to teach should take the needs of individual academics into account, as well as the challenges and opportunities generated by the settings in which they work ‒ as the articles in this special issue demonstrate. </div>
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Many of the articles in this volume emerge from a large-scale research project funded by the National Research Foundation to explore the influence of context on professional development of academics in their teaching role. Research for this project was conducted across a range of universities across South Africa. These included historically advantaged, research-intensive universities; historically disadvantaged, rural-based universities and universities of technology. This collection includes a number of articles from that project, as well as others </div>
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In the first article of this collection, Naidoo critiques what she calls the evangelical adherence to dominant theories in research and writing on higher education and, in particular, in the field of professional academic development. She argues that to address social justice in higher education it is necessary to theorise in ways that are sensitive to context and that this is not possible if theories are adopted uncritically. Drawing on the work of C. Wright Mills, she suggests that it is possible for higher education researchers in South Africa to engage critically with dominant discourses, and for professional academic development to find creative solutions to local educational challenges that promote social justice and address social inequities and injustices in higher education. </div>
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In the next section on professional development programmes, Quinn and Vorster examine aspects of academics’ and academic developers’ professional learning through formal courses. In their conceptual article, Quinn and Vorster use Luckett’s model for an epistemically diverse curriculum, Kitchener’s levels of cognition and Maton’s concepts of knowledge and knowers to analyse the curriculum for a postgraduate diploma in higher education specifically for academic developers. They argue that a course which prepares academic developers to practise in the complex terrain of contemporary higher education requires participants to engage with specific kinds of knowledge, ways of thinking and ways of being so that they can contribute towards addressing the numerous and vexing teaching and learning challenges in their institutional contexts. Their analysis makes explicit the organising principles of a curriculum for academic developers, so that the curriculum designers are able to use their insights to strengthen the design, pedagogy and assessment of their courses. In addition, making the organising principles explicit to participants enables them to be much more conscious of what, how and why they learn. </div>
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Dison critically analyses the role of reflection in a Postgraduate Diploma in Higher Education (PGDip [HE]) at the University of the Witwatersrand. In order to develop critically reflective practice amongst the participants, the course presenters explicitly integrated reflective practice into the pedagogy and assessment of the course. The article reports on the strategies and tools for integrating reflective practice in the first module of the PGDip (HE) and shows how course participants have responded to embedded meta-level questions incorporated into the assessment tasks. The article contributes to a complex understanding of what it means to reflect meaningfully on the outcomes of a professional course of this nature. </div>
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enhanced the performance of academics. The findings of this study reveal that participants wanted and needed professional development so that they could improve the quality of their own teaching and that the PGDHE enabled academics to improve their teaching strategies resulting in enhancement of the quality of teaching and learning. </div>
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In their articles, Keane and Keane and Castle examine writing development through short courses and workshops. In the first article, Keane and Castle discuss support strategies to enable academics and postgraduate students to write more and better, and to take pleasure in writing. Drawing on published literature and their own experiences of facilitating writing development initiatives, they look critically at writing development strategies used in both their own research-intensive institution in Johannesburg, and strategies used in other institutions, mainly, but not only, in South Africa. They weigh up the benefits and drawbacks of five writing strategies: writing courses and workshops; writing groups; writing mentoring and coaching; PhD boot camps; and writing retreats. They conclude that some writing strategies can be combined or sequenced to provide the engagement and support academics need to write productively and with pleasure. Keane argues that some of the difficulties experienced by supervisors and students could be addressed through the use of coaching principles and processes. Drawing on Sternberg’s (1997) Triarchical Theory, she maintains that integrating aspects of coaching in the design of supervision workshops makes it possible to address consciously the contextual influences on professional academic development. She claims that the coaching aspects of supervisor workshops open up spaces for closer collegiality and that they model empowering, developmental conversations between colleagues. </div>
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The next set of articles examines the contextual constraints and/or enablements for academics’ engagement in professional development for their teaching role in a range of different institutions. Jawitz and Perez assert that the dominant research discourse in research-intensive universities constrains academics’ engagement with professional development opportunities for teaching. Their article reports on a study of narratives that show how a group of academics at the University of Cape Town overcame contextual constraints to assert their agency. The academics justified their engagement in professional development for teaching through alternative pragmatic, social and reflexive approaches. Each of these approaches offers a different basis for justifying the academics’ participation in terms of the functions that the professional development opportunities fulfil. In the process, the academics exercise their agency and reduce the power of the dominant research discourse that locates teaching as secondary within the institution. </div>
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conditions that enable or constrain the professional development of academics in their teaching role at two rurally-based, historically disadvantaged universities. Thematic analysis of the data revealed constraints around promotion policies and the value accorded to research development over teaching development, as well as time constraints resulting from huge workloads and the inability of rural institutions to attract and retain staff. The study recommends that the theoretical frameworks that inform professional development, as well as the practicalities of the modes of delivery of professional development interventions in rural-based universities, need to be reconsidered. </div>
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Omingo uses Archer’s morphogenetic approach to analyse how lecturers learn to teach in private universities in Kenya. She analyses the emergent structural and cultural powers and the emotions that prompt lecturers, in different contexts, to learn how to teach. Semi-structured interviews were used to collect qualitative data from twenty-five purposively selected lecturers. The analysis indicated that the university’s policy statements, the teaching and learning conditions and student composition presented structural and cultural limitations that lecturers had to respond to. Although there were emergent structural and cultural powers that played a role, the lecturers’ experience of emotions such as worry, threat, curiosity and disappointment played a greater role in prompting their desire to teach. </div>
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The articles by Winberg and Garraway and Cameron and Woods both use Activity Theory to examine aspects of professional development. The focus of the article by Winberg and Garraway is a teaching and learning activity system which is studied for the purpose of understanding and resolving contradictions in the system. They examined the perspectives of university teachers and senior university managers in relation to the activity system. Data was obtained from interviews with university teachers who had expressed an interest in teaching and learning and who had demonstrated considerable ability in university teaching. Interviews were also conducted with senior managers responsible for teaching and learning at the institution. Winberg and Garraway applied the tools provided by Engeström’s Activity Theory to analyse areas of contradiction and make constructive suggestions for using the identified areas of difficulty as sites for growth and development. They also propose ways for university teaching to be supported by university managers in contexts of change and challenge. </div>
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Cameron and Woods argue that in institutions of higher education there are clear stages that teachers go through as they gain teaching experience. They analyse and interpret data collected from academic development practitioners during a workshop of the HELTASA (Higher Education Learning and Teaching Association of Southern Africa) Professional Development Special Interest Group, using Activity Theory as their lens. They propose a </div>
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‘Ladder of Learning’, a hierarchically structured framework to inform appropriate professional development activities focused on teaching and aimed at academics as they progress in their careers from emerging to distinguished practice. Insights gained from the findings and recommendations could be used to strengthen academic professional development practice in higher education institutions in South Africa. </div>
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Leibowitz explores the relationship between intrinsic motivation, extrinsic motivation and contextual social and material conditions influencing the desire of academics to learn to teach at three very different South African universities. The article considers these three influences from the perspective of self-determination theory, and shows that the theory is relevant for a discussion on motivation to learn to teach. Leibowitz shows how a careful analysis of these forms of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation in combination with contextual influences has implications for national and institutional policy on professional academic development. Her study suggests that intrinsic forms of motivation might play an important role in encouraging academics to participate in professional development opportunities, but they are rendered less effective by sub-optimal social and material conditions and thus by issues of social injustice and inequality. </div>
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The final article in the special issue, by Van Schalkwyk and McMillan, uses duoethnography and the notion of border-crossing to examine how two academic development professionals navigate their insider-outsider positions. The practice of situating academic development practitioners within faculties poses challenges for practitioners from outside the disciplinary space. Literature highlights how discourse and culture create tensions amongst role-players in cross-disciplinary contexts. The article examines the experiences of two practitioners as insider-outsiders in the health sciences. Duoethnography is a collaborative methodology where researchers, in dialogue, critique the meanings they give to social and epistemological constructs. Drawing on the concept of ‘border crossing’, the study signals how the insider-outsider location of academic development practitioners might be mediated to support quality teaching. </div>
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It is hoped that the multiple contexts examined and the theoretical perspectives employed in this collection of articles contribute to understanding the potential effects of various social, material, cultural and agential conditions on academics’ engagement with opportunities for professional learning, and that the articles offer insights to academic developers on how context shapes the possibilities for academics’ participation in professional development. </div>
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Bamber, V., P. Trowler, M. Saunders and P. Knight. 2009. Introduction: Continuities, enhancement and higher education. In <i>Enhancing learning, teaching, assessment and curriculum in higher education, </i>ed<i>. </i>V. Bamber, P. Trowler and M. Saunders, 1‒6. Maidenhead: Open University Press and McGraw Hill. </div>
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Blackmore, P., J. Chambers, L. Huxley and B. Thackwray. 2010. Tribalism and territoriality in the staff and educational development world. <i>Journal of Further and Higher Education </i>34(1): 105–117 </div>
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Lave, J. 1996. Teaching, as learning, in practice. <i>Mind, Culture, and Activity </i>3(3): 149–164. </div>
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Lave, J. 2012. Changing practice. <i>Mind, Culture, and Activity </i>19(2): 156‒171. </div>
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Mathieson, S. 2012. Disciplinary cultures of teaching and learning as socially situated practice: rethinking the space between social constructivism and epistemological essentialism from the South African Experience. <i>Higher Education </i>63: 549‒564. </div>
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Trowler, P. 2008. <i>Cultures and change in higher education: Theories and practice</i>. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan.</div>
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focus on professional development, and brings attention to the disciplinary collective
as the site for researching change. The study aims to bring fresh theoretical
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John Hannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16197487832326958672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1127414193549089045.post-88853726956633101922016-06-01T08:37:00.000-07:002016-06-01T09:45:23.723-07:00Final project meeting of the Structure, Culture and Agency GroupThirteen members from the Structure, Culture and Agency research group came together for the final project face to face meeting, at Montfleur, Stellenbosch, from 30 May - 1 June 2016.<span style="text-align: justify;">This is not our last activity together, but rather, the last 'face to face' meeting. For me as the project leader, this is a little bit of a sad moment, as I feel quite close to people in the project, which is now in its sixth year!</span><br />
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The continuing activity that we are engaging in as a group, is a research report for the Council for Higher Education (CHE), on Professional Learning in Higher Education in South Africa. We shared our draft report sections with Denyse Webbstock from the CHE yesterday, which was a great experience. It is not often one has the opportunity to engage with someone from the official organizations that one would like, to read the final recommendations. It was an additional privilege in that Denyse used to be involved in academic development, and understands the issues we have been researching. Our project culminates with several exciting publications: three chapters in a book, Theorising Learning to Teach (Routledge/SRHE, due out in November 2016, eds B. Leibowitz, V. Bozalek and P. Kahn) and five chapters in a special issue of the South African Journal of Higher Education (SAJHE), ends B. Leibowitz, C. Ndebele and J. Vorster, due out in late 2016. </div>
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<span style="font-family: AdvTTec369687, serif;">A new article from the Structure, Culture and Agency team is out. By Jeff Jawitz and Teresa Perez from the University of Cape Town, it presents data from a UCT case study on the attitudes of academics towards professional development with regard to the teaching role. The article is extremely valuable, firstly in its treatment of the concept of agency in institutional settings, and secondly in the manner in which it depicts attitudes towards teaching in a climate where research is still privileged in relation to incentives, performance criteria and individual attitudes. The study is based on one institution, but the trend is representative of other data collected in the broader NRF funded study, and trends evident nationally and internationally. Pleasingly, it suggests that the tide might be changing somewhat, as there is slightly more valuing of professional development with regard to the teaching role in this institution than previously. Whether this trend is due to the tireless efforts of those in academic development who advocate for the status of teaching, or whether it is simply the outcome of a younger generation of academics whose views on teaching and research are different to those held previously, or the result of an acknowledgement by senior managers that the incentivizing of research over teaching is having deleterious consequences - especially in a country where matriculation rates and participation in high education is inadequate - is not clear. Based on my experience at the two South African universities where I have been working in the past few years, and my engagement in national forums, I think it might be a combined outcome of all of these trends. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: AdvTTec369687, serif;">Here is the detail about the article: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'AdvTT689d5d16.B', serif;"><b>Investing
in teaching development: navigating risk in a research intensive institution </b><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: AdvTTec369687, serif;">It is
often assumed that academics working in a research intensive university are
unlikely to invest in the professional development of their teaching.
Institutional structures and culture tend to undermine investment in academics</span><span style="font-family: 'AdvTTec369687+20', serif;">’ </span><span style="font-family: AdvTTec369687, serif;">teaching role. This
study, conducted at the University of Cape Town, draws on an analysis of the
environment within which academics make decisions to invest in their role as
teachers. While acknowledging the privileging of research embedded in the
institution, a signi</span><span style="font-family: 'AdvTTec369687+fb', serif;">fi</span><span style="font-family: AdvTTec369687, serif;">cant group of
academics have found ways to assert their academic identities as teachers
despite the possible consequences and risks that this position entails. </span><o:p></o:p><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17080824875160812945noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1127414193549089045.post-49643776834215104902015-07-30T03:17:00.000-07:002015-08-03T10:17:11.520-07:00We've been busy!<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Structure, Culture and Agency team have been busy. Two new research articles emanating from the project have been published:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #eeeeee; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Garraway, J. 2015. Academic staff development in foundation provision. </span><i style="background-color: #eeeeee; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">South African Journal for Higher Education, 29 (1) 26 - 44.</i><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Foundation provision is a specially funded student support initiative for disadvantaged students in South African universities. This research focuses on foundation academic staff development. As with staff development more generally, there is a focus on improving classroom practices to support student learning. Although general and foundation staff development practitioners experience similar difficulties in carrying out their work, there are also particular structural and cultural constraints in foundation academic development. This research analyses foundation staff development as an activity system, using Engestrom’s version of activity theory, in order to better understand and expose tensions in staff development. Issues that are highlighted using this methodology are: confusion between the object of staff development and the means to achieve it; the means to achieve the object may be insufficient; and structures/cultures such as short contracts and marginalisation may constrain how staff development is taken up.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #eeeeee; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Quinn, L. and Vorster, J. 2015. Pedagogy for fostering criticality, reflectivity and practice in a course on teaching for lecturers. <i>Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education</i>. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Online.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Using the concepts of criticality, reflectivity and praxis, the paper presents an analysis of our reflections on participants’ responses to the assessment requirements for a course for lecturers on teaching.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The context in which the course is being taught has changed considerably in the last few years in terms of the mode of delivery, as well as the number and diversity of participants. Our analysis has generated insights into ways in which the course is not meeting all the learning needs of the participants, nor preparing them adequately to demonstrate, in writing, Their learning. Using insights gained, we suggest pedagogic processes and strategies for ensuring that the course focuses on both writing to learn and learning to write; And for assisting participants to acquire the practices to demonstrate their learning in written assessment tasks, using the requisite literacy including criticality, reflectivity and praxis.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A colloquium entitled Contextual Approaches to Professional Development with Regard to the Teaching Role<span style="text-align: center;"> was held at Devon </span>Valley, Stellenbosch, on the 27 July 2015. (The programme is attached). This featured presentations on the research as well as presentations by others in Southern Africa who are conducting research into contextual approaches to academic development. In all, 70 people attended and 20 presentations were made. The day culminated with a panel about theories that may inform research into this field. The final set of findings and recommendations on the basis of the research should be completed in August or September, and will be sent to relevant organizations and role-players. The Structure, Culture and Agency project has funding from the National Research Foundation until the end of 2016. Activities in process and plans are for a book on "Theorising learning to teach
in higher education: Sociomaterial, social practice and realist approaches" to be edited by Brenda Leibowitz, Vivienne Bozalek and Peter Kahn, and a monograph on the findings of the project. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: AdvP4DF60E;">A new article from the Structure, Culture and Agency Research Project has appeared in <i>Studies in Educational Evaluation </i>(vol. 46, p 4 - 10), by Susan van Schalkwyk, Nicoline Herman, Brenda Leibowitz and Jean Farmer. Entitled <i>Reflections on professional learning: Choices, context and culture</i>, it is based on the case study of Stellenbosch University. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: AdvP4DF60E;">Understanding factors that enable and constrain the professional learning of academics for their
teaching role provides insight into the complex space within which this teaching resides. The work of
social realist Margaret Archer informed an analysis of multiple data sources as part of an exercise
towards critical reflection and introspection about professional learning at the university. The data
confirms previous work, but also takes the conversation forward. The university teacher – seen to be
making choices, within a particular context and informed by her perceptions of the prevailing culture
and her personal priorities – is central to this discussion. Academic development practitioners should
consider how they might influence dominant discourses, and enhance the dispositions of teaching
academics to support quality teaching. </span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17080824875160812945noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1127414193549089045.post-48655210032245343952015-04-14T16:59:00.000-07:002015-04-14T19:35:31.976-07:00Organizational Learning, Knowledge and Capabilities Conference<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Vivienne Bozalek, Wendy McMillan and I just attended the OLCK Conference in Milan at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore - a beautiful old campus. So old that some of the venues had relics on display, one even had a necropolis from the third century AD - I hope that is not a metaphor for the university today! The conference has a focus on organizational management and a theoretical underpinning of the conference was a practice based approach. It was extremely friendly and non-pompous, and one great feature during the parallel sessions was a series of symposia on a theme,<br />
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A highlight was the second keynote by Silvia Gerardi, who spoke both on affect and on theorizing practice (Gerardi, S. 2012. <i>How to Conduct a Practice-Based Study: Problems and Methods</i>, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar). Her writing is very accessible for those who want to be introduced to theorizing about practices. There were several innovative ways of presenting and communicating at the conference, one of which was a talk artist, who drew on a large surface while Silvia was talking. (See at the beginning of this post.) Another was the conference dinner, where a pianist was accompanied by a percussionist and an artist. His completed work is also shown here.<br />
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I gave a presentation on the Structure, Culture and Agency (S, C, A) project. The paper was asking some questions about the kinds of theories we use in our research, how we go about choosing them, whether theories can be combined, and how. I used the data from the project to illustrate these points, showing in the process that some issues are better explicated through a social realist approach, and some issues through a practice based/socio-material approach. However, there are aspects of these two approaches where they appear to be commensurate, and aspects where they do not appear as commensurate. I am hoping that these questions will receive more airtime in the future, as myself, Vivienne Bozalek and Peter Kahn are planning to edit a book on the question of theorising learning to teach and I am hoping that quite a lot of the data from the S, C and A project will be featured in the book.<br />
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<strong> <a href="https://www.slideshare.net/brendauj/leibowitz-being-and-becoming-a-good-university-teacher" target="_blank" title="Leibowitz being and becoming a good university teacher">Leibowitz being and becoming a good university teacher</a> </strong> from <strong><a href="https://www.slideshare.net/brendauj" target="_blank">Brenda Leibowitz</a></strong> </div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17080824875160812945noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1127414193549089045.post-47416800075206691622015-02-12T03:53:00.002-08:002015-02-12T03:53:56.840-08:00Can theory enable us to speak back to power?<span id="goog_165576724"></span><span id="goog_165576725"></span><br />
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As a new contributor from Melbourne, I am most impressed by the longevity and depth of the Structure, Culture and Agency research project.<span style="background-color: transparent;"> </span></blockquote>
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I would like to introduce myself as a researcher at La Trobe University, taking part in an international study with Brenda (and others) on the topic of knowledge practices in teaching & learning. The study is bringing together a corpus of interview data from five universities in the UK, South Africa and Australia, led by Tai Peseta from Uni of Sydney. The title is "The flow of new knowledge practices: an inquiry into teaching, learning and curriculum dynamics in academic work-groups", where workgroups is a term used by Trowler to describe how academics put their new knowledge and know-how about teaching and learning to work. This study looks like it shares ground with the Structure, Culture and Agency project.<span style="background-color: transparent;"> </span></blockquote>
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The study also offers the rare prospect of a team of researchers bringing different theories and approaches to one investigation– in particular the two approaches mentioned in the 'Focus on Theory' posting of 28 January, namely on critical realism and sociomaterialism.<span style="background-color: transparent;"> </span></blockquote>
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I plan to contribute to the planned Critical Realism colloquium on 27 July, which Brenda mentioned in the Focus on Theory posting. I concur with Brenda that these theory issues matter: teaching and learning practice in higher education are at risk of being framed through a deracinated, "what works" lens, particularly when learning technologies are present. It also matters to articulate a response to the discourses of neo-liberal organisational change that now inform academic practice – these discourses invite us to align academic identities with our performance measures, to be reset like a timer every year.<span style="background-color: transparent;"> </span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b>Can theory enable us to speak back to power?</b></span><br />
Back to contesting theories/approaches: sociomaterialism and actor network theory is my bent: While the possibility of a theory face-off or debate between critical realism and sociomaterialism may be exciting, I am more interested in the intersections between the two approaches: to what extent are they incommensurate, their ontologies contradictory? How does each understand agency and practice from the same data? What are the dimensions of practice? And can each theory/approach make a contribution to the pressing issues in higher education in concert and find common ground?<br />
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The structure, culture and agency research project is in its
second phase and beginning of its fifth year of funding from the National
Research Foundation. The purpose of the second phase is to deepen the analysis
of the data collected in the first phase, and to disseminate research findings.
To this end we will be having a colloquium in Devon Valley, Stellenbosch, on <b><span style="color: #134f5c;">27
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The intention behind the colloquium is threefold:<o:p></o:p></div>
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colleagues outside of the project, who are taking a contextual approach to
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institutional professional academic development strategies and further
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We have confirmed plans for a special issue of the South
African Journal of Higher Education (SAJHE), due out in the second quarter of
2016, on the topic of contextual approaches to professional academic
development (or 'professional learning', which provides more emphasis on what the academic does, than on what is done <i>to</i> or <i>for</i> him or her). The deadline for submissions will be the 31 July 2016 –more
information to follow shortly on this blogsite. <o:p></o:p></div>
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If all goes well the colloquium will be followed by a late
afternoon/early evening focus on two approaches to research on professional
academic development: critical (and social) realism and a practice-based and
socio-material approach. The idea would be to discuss, with panellists, what
kinds of insights can be generated with these two theoretical approaches. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Educational research that informs practice, for example with
regard to higher education teaching and learning, has become increasingly
informed by theory over the past few decades. This is perhaps partly due to the
maturing of educational development as an academic and professional field (vis
the increase in Masters and PhD programmes in the area, Postgraduate Diplomas
in Higher Education Teaching and Learning, in South Africa and elsewhere). Many
international educational journals, for example the International Journal of
Academic Development (IJAD) expects a sound theoretical base for articles that
it publishes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But questions still
remain, about which theories we should use to inform our research or practice;
how important is one’s choice of theory; what issues we take into consideration
when selecting a theory; how important is selection of theory in relation to
issues such as personal values and philosophy of life and ethics?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Various people such as David Gosling (2003),
Paul Ashwin and Etienne Wenger-Trayner (2013) have written about the issue of
theory in relation to education. The issue requires further consideration,
especially when the language theory is so often opaque to the uninitiated. When people have not mastered the
respective logics and vocabularies, (which is fair enough, considering that it takes a while to master specific bodies of theory, and one cannot have in-depth knowledge, or would not necessarily choose to have in-depth knowledge of all) theory can divide people or impede
communication. Within higher education the literature on how lecturers learn to
teach has not teased out the implications of any of the dominant approaches of
the twenty-first century, let alone of these two. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Perhaps ‘approaches’ is more appropriate than ‘theory’,
since there are a variety of takes on critical realism (here we draw on the
work of Roy Bhaskar, Margaret Archer, Andrew Sayer and Dave Elder-Vass, and
they differ on many points), and possibly an even greater variety of takes on
practices and socio materialism (here again, writers such as Theodore Schatzki
and the feminist socio-materialists like Karen Barad would have quite different
views on agency). One reason accounting for the focus on these two approaches
is the Structure, Culture and Agency research project, which was based on
social realism loosely defined. This approach has many advantages for a
contextual approach to professional academic development, especially in
relation to the study of change, and the role of structure and agency.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our project has already published one or two
papers using the work of Archer (see our list of publications). However there
are many valid criticisms of Archer’s take on agency, most notably of her
depiction of reflexivity. Although Archer does describe <i>practice</i> in human
activity and development, and although she takes into account material
resources as an aspect of structure, there is a strong possibility that a
practice based approach will contribute more to our understanding of
professional academic development, than social realism alone. – if nothing
else, it would complement our understanding. <o:p></o:p></div>
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These two approaches are in many respects in contradiction
(approaches to agency and the individual; and transcendence or categorisation,
and a stratified ontology, being aspects of critical realism in contradiction
to the view of practices as typified by Fenwick et al, 2013, drawing on
feminist socio-materialists, for example.) An important difference is how
culture and text is viewed - as ‘real’, within a realist approach. This has
significant ramifications for approaches to teaching and learning, as
differences between realists and practice-based writers have demonstrated. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In some respects there are also similarities: a
non-Cartesian view of practice and emotion not divorced from cognition and
intellectual activity, (as pointed out by Sue Clegg in her presentation on
critical realism - <a href="http://youtu.be/v79aIto70U0">http://youtu.be/v79aIto70U0</a>).
These two approaches thus provide a fruitful basis for a discussion on what
theory can do, which theory, how we choose theory, and so on. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Is this a rarefied debate about nothing crucial? On the
contrary, the ramifications of these approaches, about issues such as agency,
responsibility, development, and distribution of resources, are crucial if one
believes that teaching and
learning is a political project, in the pursuit of social justice. We hope to
take this discussion forward at the colloquium, and possibly in the form of a
book thereafter.<o:p></o:p></div>
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- More about these up and coming events shortly. Comments to
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Ashwin, P. 2009. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Analysing
teaching-learning interactions in higher education: Accounting for structure
and agency</i>. London: Continuum.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Fenwick, T. and Nerland, M. (eds). 2013. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Reconceptualising professional learning:
Sociomaterial knowledges, practices and responsibilities</i>. London:
Routledge. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Gosling, D.
2003. Philosophical approaches to academic development. Eggins, H. and
MacDdonald, R. (eds) <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The scholarship of
academic development</i>. Buckingham: SRHE and OUP. 70 – 79<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Schatzki, T.
2002. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The site of the social: </i></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">A philosophical account of the constitution of social
life and change. </span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Penn State University Press. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17080824875160812945noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1127414193549089045.post-23922661508671626222014-12-15T12:56:00.000-08:002014-12-15T12:56:03.346-08:00New article from Structure, Culture and Agency TeamA new article has just been published by members of the Structure, Culture and Agency research team. By Brenda Leibowitz, James Garraway and Jean Farmer, the article in <i>Mind, Culture and Activity</i> is titled:<br />
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<span style="font-size: 16px;">Influence of the Past on Professional Lives: A Collective </span><span style="font-size: 16px;">Commentary. Here is the abstract:</span><br />
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This collective commentary is based on the narratives of the author-protagonists, three South African<br />
higher education developers who were involved in political activism during their youth. The commentary investigates the continuities between the author-protagonists’ youth and their later professional engagements. Drawing from social realism, the concepts of agency and reflexivity provide a helpful analytic lens. Together, the narratives suggest that these concepts may be more complex when viewed against individual narratives and that some of the differences between social realist Margaret Archer and her critics are worth bridging. Undertaking an investigation of one’s own past is beneficial for professionals engaged in higher education development.<br />
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You should be able to download the first 50 copies from:<a href="http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/VXkEex6WiqrkFdjYTSkY/full">http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/VXkEex6WiqrkFdjYTSkY/full</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17080824875160812945noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1127414193549089045.post-3646661871057267702014-12-11T02:35:00.000-08:002014-12-20T12:32:52.242-08:00Jean Farmer's Poster at the SRHE <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jean Farmer at the SRHE NR Conference, in front of her poster</td></tr>
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Here is some wonderful news from Jean Farmer. She is at the SRHE conference, but first attended the SRHE New Researchers conference. She writes: "I won first prize at the SRHENR conference. A certificate. 50GBP voucher. And my poster goes up on the website and in the London offices of SRHE. My poster has much less information than the other posters but it was judged on poster as well as presentation. 'Enthused discussion of her work and clear explanation of a methodology and thought-provoking method'."<br />
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Jean's PhD is part of the Structure, Culture and Agency research project. </div>
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Congratulations Jean!</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17080824875160812945noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1127414193549089045.post-69800636812972681632014-12-04T10:04:00.000-08:002014-12-05T04:06:32.728-08:00The SCA study as ‘currency’ for change: reflections on what this might mean going forward<style>
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A key component of the entire SCA project has been that of
reflection. Our very first data collection activity required us to reflect on
institutional positions, polices and perspectives with regard to teaching and
learning. We also essentially asked our interviewees to reflect on their own
professional learning, and at then at various points in the project, we as the
research team were asked to reflect: on the experience, on the collaboration
and on our own professional learning. And then we were asked to contribute to
this blog – to share through this less formal yet equally revealing medium, an
experience, a process, an event, that came about as a result of the study.
Thus, some further reflections …</div>
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I spent quite a bit of time contemplating what might be an
appropriate title for this posting. What did I really want to say in reporting
on a particular outcome of the study? Telling a story was one thing – and might
have some value or generate some interest – but my sense was that the sub-text
would be more interesting. I was curious about the extent to which my
enthusiasm about what had been achieved (uncovered?) as a result of the study
at my institution might be clouding my judgment as to what was really happening
– and potentially could happen – in changing conversations about teaching and
learning at my institution. </div>
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But first the story …</div>
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As part of the larger study and working with the different
data sets (document analysis, survey and in-depth interviews) we (Brenda,
Nicoline, Jean and I) worked on our institutional case study report. This was a
challenging process as we grappled with issues around audience (who would read
this tome?), and argument (what message did we want to get across?). We were
fortunate, however. Brenda, as the principal investigator on the project,
provided much of the preamble for all of the institutional case studies and
this provided an immediate way into the writing process. Nicoline and Jean were
both working on their PhDs which were situated within the study. Their
scholarly insights helped to strengthen the analysis and the discussion. We
shifted between using ‘report-like’ text and following a more discursive
approach – highlighting enablers and constraints for the professional learning
of academics in their teaching role while seeking to understand what this might
mean for teaching and learning at the institution. The institutional case study
report is available on request (email <a href="mailto:brenda@uj.ac.za">brenda@uj.ac.za</a>),
its contents are not the focus of this posting. What is interesting is how the
document emerged as an instrument for change. </div>
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The case study report served at the institution’s Committee
for Learning and Teaching at a time when a task team had been commissioned by
the Committee to investigate the Promotion and Recognition of Teaching at the
institution. This proved serendipitous as the task team took the research
findings as set out in the case study report on board as a point of departure
for their work. As their set of ground-breaking recommendations (including
issues relating to promotion, teaching sabbaticals and fellowships, and peer
review of one’s teaching) went out to faculties for comment, an opportunity
arose via the annual in-house Scholarship of Teaching and Learning conference
to capitalise on these different outputs and activities. Thus we conceptualised
a closing event for the conference that would bring together the findings from the
case study report and the recommendations of the task team in a unique way
exploring: “New ways of talking about teaching: Acknowledging teaching as an
institutional good”.</div>
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The session was made up of short inputs on key aspects from
the case study report and the task team’s recommendations. These were
interspersed with opportunities for ‘multi-group brainstorm’ sessions during
which responses from the audience of over 100 academics were captured in real
time and displayed on the screens in the venue. The excitement was palpable and
the response both positive and interesting as people spoke about how the
recommendations will let them ‘come out of the teaching closet’, but also how
they expressed concerns about what exposure of their teaching practice to peer
review might mean for them.</div>
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I believe the event was special and it felt good to end the
conference on a high note. But what about that sub-text I spoke of earlier? The
interesting bits lie beneath the story. There is the issue of agency, both
corporate and personal. In conceiving the session with colleagues from the
Centre for Teaching and Learning in the way that we did – using the audience,
the technology – represented a considerable risk on my part as the one who
would have to stand in front and manage the process. I was willing to take the
chance because I believed that the institutional case study report provided
credibility and substance. As a group we were confident as we sought to ‘deal’
with audience in a currency we felt they would understand and value
(research!). This same ‘currency’ was recognised when the task team referenced
the study in their report. </div>
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Another issue relates to the responses of the academics. The
excitement about the different recommendations made to recognise teaching, on the
one hand, and the hesitancy to accept a review process on the other hand. These
are matters that are unfolding as I write and as the faculties submit their
responses to the recommendations. Already applications for teaching fellowships
have been called for. It will be instructive to see how these processes evolve.</div>
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But finally, it is about effecting change (dare we use the
word ‘transformation’) across the system. It is about a multi-site study funded
nationally to support such change. It is about how change takes time (this SCA
study has been ongoing now for four years), and how those of us in academic
development (agents) have to take risks both individually and corporately to
use what has been achieved to challenge existing structures and adopt new discourses
around teaching and learning. To date the project has generated a number of
outputs in the form of journal articles (over and above the different
institutional case study reports). The three PhD students have all made
significant progress and as I write, a number of other publications are in
various stages of preparedness. This is important not only for the contribution
this makes to scholarship, but also because this is the currency we need to use
to effect change, to enable us to take risks and to stand up ‘at home’ for what
we believe in so that we might alter the landscape. I remain cautiously
optimistic.</div>
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Susan</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07146931794356701248noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1127414193549089045.post-85584344502901849462014-11-24T11:06:00.000-08:002014-11-24T11:06:01.975-08:00Presentations at Heltasa, Free State University, November 2014<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The Structure, Culture and Agency team presented one panel and two individual papers at the annual Heltasa Conference at Free State University in Bloemfontein in November 2014. The panel consisted of a series of presentations on the research findings in relation to institutional context:<br />
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<strong> <a href="https://www.slideshare.net/brendauj/final-structure-culture-and-ageny-panel" target="_blank" title="Final structure, culture and ageny panel">Final structure, culture and ageny panel</a> </strong> from <strong><a href="https://www.slideshare.net/brendauj" target="_blank">Brenda Leibowitz</a></strong> <br />
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Jeff Jawitz and Teresa Perez from UCT made an interesting presentation about choices to participate in professional development activities, attitudes towards time and perceptions of risk:<br />
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<strong> <a href="https://www.slideshare.net/brendauj/jeff-heltasa-conf-presentation-nov-2014" target="_blank" title="Jeff heltasa conf presentation nov 2014">Jeff heltasa conf presentation nov 2014</a> </strong> from <strong><a href="https://www.slideshare.net/brendauj" target="_blank">Brenda Leibowitz</a></strong> <br />
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And finally, Lynn Quinn and Jo-Anne Vorster made a presentation about their PGDIP in HE and the need to research lecturers' learning approaches, in the same way that there is a need to research students' learning approaches:<br />
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<strong> <a href="https://www.slideshare.net/brendauj/quinn-vorster-heltasa-2014" target="_blank" title="Quinn & vorster heltasa 2014">Quinn & vorster heltasa 2014</a> </strong> from <strong><a href="https://www.slideshare.net/brendauj" target="_blank">Brenda Leibowitz</a></strong> </div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17080824875160812945noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1127414193549089045.post-81329356761874976772014-09-28T11:53:00.001-07:002014-09-28T11:53:07.320-07:00UpdatesClever Ndebele has written a new paper using an Archerian framework:<br />
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Conceptualizing a Staff Development Agenda for the Professionalisation of Teaching at a South African University: Attempts at an Action Plan, in <i>Anthropologist</i> 18 (2), 629 - 638. <br />
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ABSTRACT: This study was inspired by the author’s participation in a Post Graduate Diploma in Higher Education course at one South African University. As part of the requirements for the successful completion of the Diploma, one had to design an educational development agenda for a university. Using the Archerian social realist theoretical framework this paper conceptualises an agenda for the professional development of academics in their role as teachers at the University of Higher Learning. The study argues that while structures can be put in place, it is the agency enacting those structural roles and working in the domain of culture that can actualize an educational<br />
development agenda. Based on this argument, the study recommends a commitment from management as key agents in the provision of resources for the implementation of the proposed educational staff development agenda.<br />
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Vivienne Bozalek, Patience Sipuka and I gave a paper at the UKZN Teaching and Learning Conference, 25 - 27 September 2014, at the Edewood Campus, Durban, thus taking the research to a new audience. The conference itself was interesting, with keynotes by Gayatri Spivak (very refreshing and iconoclastic), William Pinar (he gave a strong critique of the CHE Report on the Four Year Curriculum) and Reitumetse Mabokela, and ex-South African who now works at Michigan State. She gave an impassioned keynote about the state of higher education in South Africa, and the relative inability to transform the sector in terms of student outcomes and staff representativity. She argued that it is the responsibility of all in the sector to try and make a difference, we cannot just blame those at the top. This resonates well with the idea of Structure, Culture - and Agency, I would argue.<br />
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<b> <a href="https://www.slideshare.net/brendauj/the-professional-development-of-academics-with-regard-to-the-teaching-role-an-interinstitutional-investigation" target="_blank" title=" The Professional Development of Academics with Regard to the Teaching Role – an Inter-institutional Investigation"> The Professional Development of Academics with Regard to the Teaching Role – an Inter-institutional Investigation</a> </b> from <b><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/brendauj" target="_blank">Brenda Leibowitz</a></b> </div>
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17080824875160812945noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1127414193549089045.post-34120703854748803092014-08-25T07:03:00.000-07:002014-08-25T07:03:29.474-07:00The significance of Eraut’s ‘Non-formal learning and tacit knowledge in professional work’ for researching professional development in higher education.
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Michale Eraut is </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">University of Sussex and SCEPTrE Senior Research
Fellow,</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">University of Surrey</span></span><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: navy; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">. </span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span><span lang="EN-US">Here is a photograph of him. I don’t know how recent it is. </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The article ‘Non-formal learning and tacit knowledge
in professional work’ by Michale Eraut (<i>British Journal of Educational
Psychology</i> <b>(</b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">2000<b>), </b></span>70<b>,
</b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">113–136) is not a very recent
article, but it presents very significant views for the Structure, Culture and
Agency project. It would be a disservice to oversimplify this article in order
to summarise it here. For this reason I am rather providing the author’s own
abstract: </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Background. This paper explores the conceptual and
methodological problems arising from several empirical investigations of
professional education and learning in the workplace.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Aims. 1. To clarify the multiple meanings accorded to
terms such as ‘nonformal learning’, ‘implicit learning’ and ‘tacit knowledge’,
their theoretical assumptions and the range of phenomena to which they refer.
2. To discuss their implications for professional practice.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Method. A largely theoretical analysis of issues and
phenomena arising from empirical investigations.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Analysis. The author’s typology of non-formal learning
distinguishes between implicit learning, reactive on-the-spot learning and
deliberative learning. The significance of the last is commonly overemphasised.
The problematic nature of tacit knowledge is discussed with respect to both
detecting it and representing it. Three types of tacit knowledge are discussed:
tacit understanding of people and situations, routinised actions and the tacit
rules that underpin intuitive decision-making. They come together when
professional performance involves sequences of routinised action punctuated by
rapid intuitive decisions based on tacit understanding of the situation. Four
types of process are involved – reading the situation, making decisions, overt
activity and metacognition – and three modes of cognition – intuitive, analytic
and deliberative. The balance between these modes depends on time, experience
and complexity. Where rapid action dominates, periods of deliberation are
needed to maintain critical control. Finally the role of both formal and
informal social knowledge is discussed; and it is argued that situated learning
often leads not to local conformity but to greater individual variation as
people’s careers take them through a series of different contexts. This
abstract necessarily simplifies a more complex analysis in the paper itself.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">This paper is so important for researching
professional development for several reasons: </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">1. It sets out very well the role of the immediate
environment for learning and professional development, and why the immediate
work context is so important</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">2. It explains why an individual learns both from
formal programmes and informal settings, thus that both are important and
require attention in strategies to enhance professional development </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">3. At a more theoretical level, the article discusses
the value of ‘deliberative’ or more overt, explicit learning, as well as the
value of more tacit learning. There is a tendency sometimes to emphasise the
value of theory and explicit learning and criticize the role of non-formal or
experiential learning, and vice versa, to overemphasize informal learning. A particularly
deleterious outcome of the latter, is the statement, heard often in
universities, that academics do not need to be trained to teach, as they have been
doing it all these years. I find this polarization of views particularly
unhelpful, and don’t believe that it advances our understanding of how
academics learn to teach. </span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17080824875160812945noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1127414193549089045.post-21539357059379893742014-08-13T03:25:00.000-07:002014-08-13T03:25:20.813-07:00The Concept of RuralityI have just read a chapter on 'rurality' and students and higher education in the United Kingdom. Obviously the context in the UK and South Africa, with regard to rurality is different, but this is still a useful resource for our project, with regard to context. The focus is more on students than on academics. We have three universities in rural areas, albeit with different levels of resourcing, different histories and so on. We plan to talk about 'rurality' as one of the inputs at a panel we have planned for the annual Heltasa conference in November later this year.<br />
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The chapter, entitled Rurality and Higher Education: A conceptual analysis is by Neil Moreland, Joyce Chamberlain and Kepa Artarez. It is in Maria Slowey and David Watson (Eds) Higher Education and the Lifecourse. Maidenhead: SRHE/OUP.<br />
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The writers do not define rurality, but they do describe it as follows:<br />
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There is a diversity in rural areas; the dispersal of rural exclusion and poverty is often found amidst affluence (Rowntree Foundation 2000). As the Rowntree Foundation Report says: The main axes of inequality in rural Britain are social class, gender and age. The principal groups affected by exclusion are older people, young people, low-paid people in work, self-employed people, people detached from labour markets, and women . . . Other factors which are more important in rural than urban areas include low pay, inadequate pensions, poverty in self-employment, lower levels of benefit uptake, and fear of stigma in small communities. (Rowntree Foundation 2000: 4) Such factors are not likely to be addressed by free markets in educational provision at higher education.<br />
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I wonder if there are more recent writings on this issue, and whether there are some pertaining more specifically to South Africa or similar resource constrained contexts?Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17080824875160812945noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1127414193549089045.post-769010071998085092014-08-06T07:18:00.002-07:002014-08-12T23:38:58.076-07:00The S, C and A group has been busy - latest news<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: purple;">Completion of Phase O</span>n<span style="color: purple;">e</span></span></span><br />
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research be conducted into the ways in which history, resources, conditions of
employment and geography impact on teaching;</span></li>
<li><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">the discourse, science and art of
teaching needs to be uplifted nationally; </span></li>
<li><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">the status of teaching and
learning should be recognized; </span></li>
<li><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">time and resources need to be made available for
professional development;</span></li>
<li><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">the findings indicate a binary between research and
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;">Leibowitz, B. 2014. Conducive Environments for the Promotion of Quality Teaching in Higher Education in South Africa. </span><i style="line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;">Cristal</i><span style="line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;">, 2 (1) 47 - 73. </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;">Ndebele, C. and Maphosa, C. 2014. Voices of Educational Developers on the Enabling and Constraining Conditions in the Uptake of Professional Development Opportunities by Academics at a South African University.</span><span style="line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"> </span><i style="line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;">International Journal of Educational Science</i></span><span style="line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, 7 (1) 169 - 182. </span></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">18 members of the project participated in a very productive writing retreat at Montefleur, near Stellenbosch. We wrote, we walked and we formulated plans for the future. The plans include: a panel and several papers for the 2014 annual Heltasa conference; a colloquium on professional development, including on the findings from our project, which will be held the Cape in the last week of July 2015; and an edited volume on quality teaching and professional development with a focus on the social and relational aspects. </span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17080824875160812945noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1127414193549089045.post-4638858766572221342014-07-16T10:08:00.000-07:002014-07-16T11:29:31.551-07:00Teaching and Learning Week at Fort Hare and the Workgroup<div style="text-indent: -49.93333435058594px;">
The The Teaching and Learning Centre (TLC) at Fort Hare celebrated ten years of existence this week. This was attended by TLC members, faculty, the VC, DVC and visitors from North West University and Walter Sisulu University. Invited presentations were from Diane Grayson (the CHE), Nan Yeld (DHET), Rubby Dhunpath (UKZN) and myself. There was a lot of festivity around the event. Particularly exciting were the presentations by students who had benefitted from Supplemental Instruction, and participants on the University's Post-Graduate Diploma in Higher Education. Vuyisile Nkonki (who along with Patricia Muhuro, is a member of our S, C and A project) pointed out how beneficial the Diploma is to people who come as a group. This was in response to the joint presentation from members of the Accounting Department, who came as a group to the Diploma, and who used their participation to initiate changes in their own programme. This is interesting in the light of the work by writers such as Peter Knight and Paul Trowler, about the significance of the workgroup for professional learning. In fact Trowler and Knight argued that interaction in the immediate work context is more significant for professional learning, than formal courses (<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-indent: -37.45pt;">Trowler, P. and Knight, P. 1999.
Organizational socialization and induction in universities: Reconceptualizing
theory and practice. </span><i style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-indent: -37.45pt;">Higher Education</i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-indent: -37.45pt;">, 37: 159–177). The two-way relationship between the 'workgroup' and participation in graduate courses is currently being investigated in an international research project led by Tai Peseta, called the GCert Workgroup </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Study. Congrats to the Fort Hare TLC!<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Patricia and Vuyisile - S, C, A research team members</td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: white;">One can just as easily apply this to the structural order as well, or to both the cultural and structural, at the same time. In a future article, to come out shortly in Critical </span>Studies in Teaching and Learning (CRISTAL), I pay more attention to the human and agentic element. I believe that if we do wish to understand how teaching and learning can be enhanced, it is precisely the <i>interplay</i> between structure, culture and human interaction, that needs to be investigated. What interests me personally in all of this, is the human or individual component, and the extent to which this is indeed reflexive, or more unconscious or habitual or conditioned, as critics of the work of Margaret Archer argue. </div>
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Leibowitz, B., Bozalek, V., van Schalkwyk, S & Winberg, C. 2014. Institutional context matters: the professional development of academics as teachers in South African higher education. <i>Higher Education</i>. Available at: http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s10734-014-9777-2 [Accessed July 2, 2014].</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17080824875160812945noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1127414193549089045.post-14944532163088986452014-07-04T03:38:00.001-07:002014-07-11T12:06:42.946-07:00Conference presentations by Structure, Culture and Agency teamJune has been a busy month for the Structure, Culture and Agency team. We made five presentations at the International Consortium for Educational Development (ICED) Conference in Stockholm and one poster presentation at the Propel Conference in Stirling. Most of these have been written up for publication or are being written up at our up and coming writing retreat at the end of July. They are mostly based on the idea of the interplay between structure, culture and agency, and are mostly based on the institutional case studies.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17080824875160812945noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1127414193549089045.post-81571340682489826762014-07-03T14:20:00.002-07:002014-07-05T04:43:54.537-07:00New article from project on the influence of institutional context on quality teachingThe latest article based on the Structure, Culture and Agency project is entitled <span style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Institutional Context Matters: the
professional development of academics as teachers in South African Higher
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<b>Abstract:</b> This study features the concept of ‘context’ and how various macro, meso and micro features of the social system play themselves out in any setting. Using South Africa as an example, it explores the features that may constrain or enable professional development, quality teaching and the work of teaching and learning centres at eight universities in varied socio-cultural settings. The article draws on the work of critical realists and their explication of the concepts of structure, culture and agency. The research design was participatory, where members of teaching and learning centres at the eight institutions defined the aims and key questions for the study. They collected the data on which this article is based, namely a series of descriptive and reflective reports. The findings clustered around six themes: history, geography and resources; leadership and administrative processes; beliefs about quality teaching and staff development; recognition and appraisal; and capacity, image and status of the TLC staff. These features play out in unique and unpredictable constellations in each different context, while at the same time, clusters of features adhere together. Whilst there is no one to one, predictive relationship between university type and outcome, there is a sense that socio-economic contextual features are salient and require greater attention than other features.<br />
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<i>The Reality of Social Construction</i>, by Dave Elder-Vass was published in 2012 (Cambridge). Here Elder-Vass argues that social scientists should be "<i>both</i> realists <i>and</i> social constructionists" (p.3). He agrees that "our senses and/or concepts of ourselves are shaped by discursive forces as well as by other forms of experience" (p. 12). He further develops the concept of "norm circles", posited in his 2010 book, <i>The Causal Power of Social Structures </i>which he says regulate cultural, linguistic, discursive and epistemic practices. These circles influence our thinking and provide the resources for us to think and to challenge. These circles are, he argues, increasingly intersectional. Significantly, for the Structure, Culture and Agency project, although Elder-Vass stresses culture and norms, he makes provision for the influence of "practice" and "participation" - for those of us who feel very strongly about practice based perspectives on learning and development. He also affirms the importance of materiality: "material configurations of, for example, location or technology may also help to shape these practices" (p. 259). This is extremely helpful for the Structure, Culture and Agency research project's investigation of how context influences academics' participation in professional academic development activities, where we have found that geographic location of universities, for example, does have a potential impact on teaching quality. But in a more fundamental sense, the material world is the basis for much action and sensory activity: "our minds are material; our social world is material; neither is fundamentally divided from the rest of the world in a way that would prevent us from accessing that world" (p. 262). A point that Elder-Vass makes several times in the book, is that it is people, not language, that influence how we talk about the world. This should prevent us from reifying language the way many pro-multilingualism or pro-mother tongue activists do.<br />
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One of the joys of this book is that it traverses a huge body of theory on language, discourse, knowledge and agency. Elder-Vass gives his view on diverse writers including Durkheim, Foucault, Judith Butler, Saussure, Berger and Luckmann and Margaret Archer. He makes a successful attempt to write lucidly and fairly simply about a range of important ontological and epistemological issues and provides a very interesting account of critical realist thinking about how norms are generated. It is a valuable resources for investigating the influence of institutional contexts on the professional development of academics.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17080824875160812945noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1127414193549089045.post-38800932914435189272014-05-28T01:53:00.000-07:002014-07-05T04:47:24.736-07:00Presentation by Susan van Schalkwyk and Julia Blitz at Ottawa Conference, 25 - 29 April 2014<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="webkit-fake-url://24F764FB-A3FF-4962-9E85-1DB70294C766/image.tiff" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><a href="webkit-fake-url://10F30F44-E458-4D8C-BD07-04DBC0FAA38B/image.tiff" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; display: inline !important; float: right; font-size: 27.5px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a>Julia Blitz and Susan van Schalkwyk, members of the Structure, Culture and Agency research project, made a presentation on data from the project at the 12th Canadian Conference on Medical Education in Ottawa, Ontario, on 25 - 29 April 2014. They used the work of Lieff to show that the qualitative data derived from the open ended responses to a survey conducted at participating universities could be analyzed in terms of four lenses: political, structural, symbolic and human resource. (See S Lieff 'Faculty development: Yesterday, today and tomorrow: Guide supplement'. 33.2-Viewpoint, Medical Teacher, 32, 429-431, 2010). Their conclusion is contained in the slide below.<br />
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