Recently added articles from Innovations in Education and Teaching International:
Editorial
Nov 01, 2008; ... In this edition we have a wide range of papers from South Africa, Australia, New Zealand and the UK. In 'Perceptions of teacher roles in an experience rich teacher education programme', Annemarie Hattingh and D.M. de Kock from the University of Pretoria, South Africa consider issues of identity ...
Perceptions of teacher roles in an experience-rich teacher education programme
Nov 01, 2008; ... Prospective teachers enrolling for teacher education programmes often bring with them fixed images and beliefs about the roles they see themselves fulfilling in the teaching profession. The aim of this research was to uncover, firstly, beginning student teachers' initial perceptions of the roles ...
Factors affecting student progression and achievement: prediction and intervention. A two-year study
Nov 01, 2008; ... First-year student dropout in the university sector can reach 20% or higher. Over a two-year period, a simple instrument was developed to identify potential student low performance and withdrawal. It was based on a measure of students' early expectation of higher education, matched subsequently ...
Overcoming problems in problem-based learning: a trial of strategies in an undergraduate unit
Nov 01, 2008; ... Professionally oriented tertiary-level courses such as allied health courses in Australia are under pressure from both their professions and the federal government to provide educational outcomes that prepare graduates for the workplace. This has resulted in a number of allied courses adopting ...
Compering and comparing: stand-up comedy and pedagogy
Nov 01, 2008; ... The central argument of this paper is that adopting some of the techniques practised by stand-up comedians can help teachers in higher education challenge students in ways that will ultimately improve the student learning experience overall. It will suggest that developing co-dependent ...
Examining the doctoral thesis: a discussion
Nov 01, 2008; ... The examination of doctoral theses controls an important academic threshold, yet practices are often private, codes non-specific, and individuals isolated. This article adds to recent investigation of the examination culture by reporting informal panel discussion amongst a total of 23 University ...
The effect of concept mapping on students' learning achievements and interests
Nov 01, 2008; ... The study described in this paper has examined whether concept mapping can be used to help students to improve their learning achievement and interests. The participants were 124 students from two classes enrolled in an advanced accounting course at the School of Management of a university in ...
Learning objects, learning objectives and learning design
Nov 01, 2008; ... Educational research and development into e-learning mainly focuses on the inclusion of new technological features without taking into account psycho-pedagogical concerns that are likely to improve a learner's cognitive process in this new educational category. This paper presents an ...
Enhancing students' responsibility towards society through civic involvement projects
Nov 01, 2008; ... The recent literature on corporate social responsibility is searching for new ways of education in relation to citizenship and social responsibility. This paper reviews some of the educational issues discussed within the corporate social responsibility literature. It also includes examples of ...
A generic model for guiding the integration of ICT into teaching and learning
Nov 01, 2008; ... Effective integration of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) into teaching and learning is becoming an essential competency for teachers. However, teachers do not usually follow linear instructional design models when they are planning for ICT integration. This paper proposes a ...
Editorial
Aug 01, 2008; ... Higher Education, suggests Barnett (2000), is faced with preparing students for a supercomplex world in which individuals have to continually reconstruct themselves. Creativity is central to this process as a means by which students negotiate their environments and flourish personally and ...
Towards transformation: conceptions of creativity in higher education
Aug 01, 2008; ... Creativity, which has now entered the discourse in higher education alongside other agenda items such as enterprise, entrepreneurship and innovation, is an elusive and complex notion. It may evade the sort of definition, categorisation and compartmentalisation required to integrate it fully into ...
Creativity and critical thinking in the globalised university
Aug 01, 2008; ... This paper outlines the dynamic life of the university in the era of neo-liberal globalisation, and within this context, discusses the nature of 'creativity' as a life force or power, similar to the Ancient Greek idea of 'Eros'. This power is contrasted with functionalist and bureaucratic ...
Risk: the ethics of a creative curriculum
Aug 01, 2008; ... Higher education in the UK espouses to develop intelligence and critical skills in undergraduates. To do this requires exposing students to challenge and thus risk. However, current models of quality assurance are risk-averse and thus potentially limit the scope of creative learning and teaching ...
Learners reconceptualising education: widening participation through creative engagement?
Aug 01, 2008; ... Engaging imaginatively with how education is manifested is necessary for providers both in higher education and in preceding contexts and phases. Fostering dispositions for creativity in dynamic engagement and the consideration of pedagogy, curriculum, inclusion, policy and the management of ...
Transdisciplinarity for creative futures: what barriers and opportunities?
Aug 01, 2008; ... The call to 'creativity' has become increasingly familiar as a catch-phrase of higher education policy. Much current academic and policy discussion, however, is based on assertions of the importance of 'more creativity' without any clear sense of what the implications are for the disciplinary ...
A pedagogy of connection and boundary crossings: methodological and epistemological transactions in working across and between disciplines
Aug 01, 2008; ... This paper develops the idea of a pedagogy of connection for working across and between disciplines by examining transactions that take place at the boundaries between contributing disciplines. Characteristics of cross-disciplinary work are outlined and a case is made for regarding it as a ...
Unlearning how to teach
Aug 01, 2008; ... The twenty-first century demands not only that we learn new forms of social engagement but also that we unlearn habits that have been useful in the past but may no longer be valuable to the future. Teachers have 'un-learned' the role of Sage-on-the-stage as the dominent model of teaching, and ...
Use of creative space in enhancing students' engagement
Aug 01, 2008; ... This paper explores the effect teaching in a specially designed 'creative learning space' has on students' engagement with the learning process, their motivation to explore, experience and discover (i.e. to be creative), and on them becoming more active, autonomous learners. It examines the ...
Creative activity and its impact on student learning - issues of implementation
Aug 01, 2008; ... The use of filmmaking as a creative learning tool within the academic curriculum has been pioneered at the University of Sheffield. Filmmaking has been found to promote a lively, exciting and challenging environment in the classroom. It produces highly motivated students and makes learning fun ...