Book chapter
Facilitating creative problem solving in the entrepreneurship curriculum through authentic learning activities
Activity Theory, Authentic Learning and Emerging Technologies: Towards a Transformative Higher Education Pedagogy, pp.92-101
Routledge
2014
Abstract
This chapter reports on interviews conducted with educators in which they reflect on what drives their innovative practices, within the context of differing and challenging circumstances of their work. It draws on data collected as part of a larger study that was funded by the National Research Fund (NRF) to investigate how emerging technologies (ET) can be used to improve teaching and learning in the higher education (HE) sector. Lecturers who were interviewed identified the importance of graduate attributes of critical scholarship, critical citizenship and lifelong learning to prepare students as agents of social good dealing with the complexity and uncertainty of the twenty-first century. The chapter explains an analysis of the 20 interviews conducted revealed three common themes. It provides an overview of the driving forces that enabled innovative lecturers aiming to create successful authentic learning experiences for their students working with the affordances of emerging technologies, given the complexities of the current South African HE context.
Details
- Title
- Facilitating creative problem solving in the entrepreneurship curriculum through authentic learning activities
- Authors
- Noel Lindsay (Author) - The University of AdelaideDenise Wood (Author) - Central Queensland University
- Contributors
- V Bozalek (Editor) - University of the Western CapeD Ng'ambi (Editor) - University of Cape TownDenise Wood (Editor) - Central Queensland UniversityJ Herrington (Editor) - Murdoch UniversityJ Hardman (Editor) - University of Cape TownA Amory (Editor) - University of Johannesburg
- Publication details
- Activity Theory, Authentic Learning and Emerging Technologies: Towards a Transformative Higher Education Pedagogy, pp.92-101
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Date published
- 2014
- DOI
- 10.4324/9781315771823
- ISBN
- 9781315771823
- Organisation Unit
- Office of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic); University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99513896602621
- Output Type
- Book chapter
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