Becoming critical: Lecturers’ perspectives of learning engagement in first year at USC

Tania Aspland; Tilly Hinton

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Becoming critical: Lecturers’ perspectives of learning engagement in first year at USC

Tania Aspland and Tilly Hinton

Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia (HERDSA) International Conference: Critical Visions: Thinking, Learning and Researching in Higher Education, 2006 (Perth, Australia, 10-Jul-2006–12-Jul-2006)

Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia (HERDSA)

2006

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This paper emerges from a funded study that asks two parallel R … D questions, and then combines findings to discover degrees of congruence between perspectives and experience: · What are the perspectives of first year students when engaging in learning through lectures and tutorials? · What are the perspectives of lecturers as they engage first year students in learning through lectures and tutorials at USC? The findings presented in this paper focus on the second question with a particular emphasis on learning environments that lecturers prefer to engage first year students in learning at USC? Further the paper reveals: 1. the conditions that foster learning engagement with first year students most successfully at USC? 2. The difficulties lecturers have encountered while engaging first year students in learning at USC and 3. how have they managed these difficulties. In conclusion the paper takes up the critical agenda and articulates how academics can engage in curriculum development and pedagogical practices that enhance learning engagement for first year students.

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Title: Becoming critical: Lecturers’ perspectives of learning engagement in first year at USC
Authors: Tania Aspland (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Science, Health and Education
Tilly Hinton (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Science, Health and Education
Conference details: Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia (HERDSA) International Conference: Critical Visions: Thinking, Learning and Researching in Higher Education, 2006 (Perth, Australia, 10-Jul-2006–12-Jul-2006)
Publisher: Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia (HERDSA)
Date published: 2006
Organisation Unit: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99449692102621
Output Type: Conference presentation

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