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Open discourse; technicism; heuristic research; dreams; rich pictures; university teaching reform
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Pictures, Dreams, And The Reflexive Educational Reformer, Mark Campbell Williams
Pictures, Dreams, And The Reflexive Educational Reformer, Mark Campbell Williams
Networks: An Online Journal for Teacher Research
What do pictures, dreams and reflection have to do with educational reform? In this paper I reflect heuristically on a five year study investigating a major teaching reform of a university business computing course. I conducted action research on a raft of teaching innovations designed to introduce communication, discourse, and reflection on broad social and organisational implications of computing rather than merely hardware and software techniques. The main theme was to see if discourse could ameliorate a dominant technicism in the teaching-learning process and curriculum. After three years, I realised that, in my own technicist drive to achieve "success" and …