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Pattison, Philippa; Bridgeman, Adam; Bulmer, Ainslie; McCallum, Peter; Miles, Richard – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2023
A number of commentators have recently called for a re-examination of the purpose and value of undergraduate education, arguing that change is required if universities are to deliver the value in educational outcomes that students and communities now require for a changing and challenging world (for example, Aoun, 2017; Bok, 2020; Davidson, 2017;…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Study, College Curriculum, Curriculum Development
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Hurlimann, Anna; Beilin, Ruth; March, Alan – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2023
Urbanisation and industrialisation have contributed to significant and detrimental changes in the earth's natural environments. The concept of social-ecological resilience can assist this problem, by integrating the consideration of human and ecological systems in decision-making. An implication is that built environment professionals must be…
Descriptors: Physical Environment, Ecology, Climate, Resilience (Psychology)
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Ramji, Karima; Kines, Lalita; Hancock, Robert L. A.; McRae, Norah – International Journal of Work-Integrated Learning, 2021
Students, faculty, and staff in postsecondary institutions around the world are engaging in conversations about decolonization and Indigenization. These conversations are also emerging in the context of work-integrated learning and experiential learning programs. This article presents the key findings of a research project investigating the…
Descriptors: Culturally Relevant Education, Curriculum Development, Experiential Learning, Indigenous Personnel
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Pazell, Sara; Hamilton, Anita – Higher Education Research and Development, 2021
Undergraduate education is competitive. User experience is important to course design because it can improve user-satisfaction and learning. Action research methodology was used in our practice-oriented case study about the application of human-factors methods to re-design an undergraduate second-year occupational therapy course. A cognitive task…
Descriptors: Student Centered Learning, Undergraduate Students, Occupational Therapy, Curriculum Development
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Sultmann, Willian; Lamb, Janeen; Hall, David; Borg, Gary – British Journal of Religious Education, 2022
The Scriptural metaphor, 'Into the Deep', characterises a trial Religious Education curriculum within a Catholic diocese of Australia. Teacher developers (n = 40) and teacher implementers (n = 85) from 37 schools responded to the influence of six Religious Education Development Principles (REDP), and statements on the implementation processes at…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Religious Education, Catholic Educators, Foreign Countries
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Lindsay, Euan D.; Morgan, James R. – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2021
CSU Engineering is the new civil engineering school at Charles Sturt University in Australia. Established at an institution that has not previously offered Engineering, CSU Engineering has taken the opportunity to design and implement a radically different model for its degree, drawing upon the frontier trends and themes in engineering education…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Problem Based Learning, Workplace Learning, Online Courses
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Bilous, Rebecca H.; Hammersley, Laura; Lloyd, Kate – International Journal of Work-Integrated Learning, 2018
Within work-integrated learning (WIL), partner communities and organisations are increasingly seen as co-educators, but not often as collaborators of research inquiry (Hammersley, 2012; 2015). This paper reflects on the research methods employed to engage partner organisations in the co-creation of curriculum to support international WIL…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Research Methodology, Curriculum Development, Cooperative Planning
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Edwards, Melissa; Brown, Paul; Benn, Suzanne; Bajada, Christopher; Perey, Robert; Cotton, Deborah; Jarvis, Walter; Menzies, Gordon; McGregor, Ian; Waite, Katrina – Environmental Education Research, 2020
Sustainability learning is holistic and complex as it draws on diverse disciplines and can be interpreted differently within individual pedagogies. Embedding sustainability across and within business schools relies on developing suitable boundary objects. These may include representations such as models, frameworks or classificatory schemes that…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Business Schools, Interdisciplinary Approach, Curriculum Development
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Sultmann, William; Lamb, Janeen; Hall, David; Borg, Gary – Religious Education, 2021
The development and implementation of a trial Religious Education (RE) curriculum within a Catholic diocese of Australia was characterized by the scriptural metaphor "into the deep." Commentary (5300 words) from teacher developers (n = 40) and implementers (n = 85) were analyzed using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis. Findings…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Teacher Attitudes, Teaching Methods, Creative Teaching
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Sultmann, William; Lamb, Janeen; Hall, David; Borg, Gary – Journal of Beliefs & Values, 2021
Australian students' perception of a trial Religious Education (RE) programme is the focus of this paper. Students (N = 1478) from 37 schools, primary and secondary, completed an online survey that included six Likert style items that aligned with six RE development principles that guided the development of the trial. Curriculum development was…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Religious Education, Student Surveys, Elementary School Students
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Cooper, Trudi – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2017
This article examines the practical difficulties encountered when a renewed curriculum is implemented in higher education. Attention has been given in the literature to the importance of coherent curriculum and approaches to curriculum design. Less attention has been paid to whether the renewed curriculum can be faithfully implemented within a…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Improvement, Educational Change, Barriers
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Lloyd, Kate; Howitt, Richard; Bilous, Rebecca; Clark, Lindie; Dowling, Robyn; Fagan, Robert; Fuller, Sara; Hammersley, Laura; Houston, Donna; McGregor, Andrew; McLean, Jessica; Miller, Fiona; Ruming, Kristian; Semple, Anne-Louise; Suchet-Pearson, Sandie – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2015
In the context of continuing pressures from managerialist and neoliberal drivers of university reform in Australia, Macquarie University's recent undergraduate curriculum innovation, based on "People," "Planet," and "Participation," has resulted in the embedding and integration of experiential learning in its…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Geography, Geography Instruction, Curriculum Development
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Power, Kerith; Green, Monica – Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 2014
Australian curricula name "sustainability" as a key priority area with implications for preparing pre-service teachers. In the research that generated this paper, we asked: How can framing teaching through space and place inform pre-service teachers' pedagogical thinking and practice? In new third year Bachelor of Education (primary)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Sustainability
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Hadley, Bree Jamila – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2012
This article investigates the role of information communication technologies (ICTs) in establishing a well-aligned, authentic learning environment for a diverse cohort of non-cognate and cognate students studying event management in a higher education context. Based on a case study which examined the way ICTs assisted in accommodating diverse…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Industry, Foreign Countries, Curriculum Development
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Leong, Raymond; Kavanagh, Marie – Asia-Pacific Journal of Cooperative Education, 2013
Universities are being placed under increasing pressure to produce employable work ready graduates who are able to cope in a rapidly changing work environment. This has resulted in universities offering their undergraduate students the opportunity to gain business acumen and real world experience by undertaking work-integrated learning (WIL) as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Accounting, Business Administration Education, Skill Development
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