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Changing Practice: Research On The Impact Of Continuing Professional Development In Higher Education, Roisin Donnelly, Marian Fitzmaurice
Changing Practice: Research On The Impact Of Continuing Professional Development In Higher Education, Roisin Donnelly, Marian Fitzmaurice
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In higher education, we still have much to learn about the nature of teacher training, about the construction of curricula, and about how teachers become reflective about their practice. Eraut (1994) emphasised that professionals continually learn on the job but that unless time is set aside to deliberate, the learning may not be integrated into any general theory of practice. Also, it is argued in the most recent literature (Day & Sachs 2004) that there is a gap in our knowledge of the effects of CPD upon the thinking, planning and practice of individual teachers. Kelchtermans (2004) highlights the need …
Researching What Lecturers Want: Supporting Academic Staff In The Scholarship Of Learning And Teaching, Roisin Donnelly, Marian Fitzmaurice
Researching What Lecturers Want: Supporting Academic Staff In The Scholarship Of Learning And Teaching, Roisin Donnelly, Marian Fitzmaurice
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Fostering Of Creativity Within An Imaginative Curriculum In Higher Education, Roisin Donnelly
Fostering Of Creativity Within An Imaginative Curriculum In Higher Education, Roisin Donnelly
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Psychology is frequently used as a foundation discipline in the training of adult educators because it addresses those questions which naturally emerge from an engagement with adult learning and teaching (Tennant, 1997). The professional context which forms the focus of this article is no different. By providing academic support for lecturers in a higher education institution in Ireland, there is a desire to develop a sustainable curriculum model whereby by working with them on designing and developing creative curricula in their various subject disciplines in the arts and sciences they, in turn, pass the benefits of this on to their …