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Metamodern Sensibilities: Toward a Pedagogical Framework for a Wicked World
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Sarah Bowman; Josh Salter; Carol Stephenson; Darryl Humble – Teaching in Higher Education, 2024
This paper identifies the need for a pedagogical re-orientation in UK higher education to prepare graduates to overcome wicked problems. In addition to key knowledge sets, graduates need attributes of critical self-reflection, risk-awareness and management, collaboration, creativity, agility, reflexivity - enabling the ability to manage the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Problem Solving, Higher Education, College Graduates
Teaching Death to Undergraduates: Exploring the Student Experience of Discussing Emotive Topics in the University Classroom
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Pitimson, Natalie – Educational Review, 2021
The experience of learning about emotive topics in the classroom remains relatively under-researched. Within the social sciences, death studies is undergoing a resurgence yet little is known about the student experience of exploring such issues in an academic setting. This research focuses on final year undergraduate students at a British…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Death, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Social Sciences
The Flipped Classroom, Disruptive Pedagogies, Enabling Technologies and Wicked Problems: Responding to "The Bomb in the Basement"
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Hutchings, Maggie; Quinney, Anne – Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 2015
The adoption of enabling technologies by universities provides unprecedented opportunities for flipping the classroom to achieve student-centred learning. While higher education policies focus on placing students at the heart of the education process, the propensity for student identities to shift from partners in learning to consumers of…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Video Technology, Homework, Blended Learning
Understanding the Danish Forest School Approach: Early Years Education in Practice. Understanding the... Approach
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Williams-Siegfredsen, Jane – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
"Understanding the Danish Forest School Approach" is a much needed source of information for those wishing to extend and consolidate their understanding of the Forest School Approach in Denmark and how it is used in the teaching and learning of young children. It will enable the reader to analyse the essential elements of this Approach…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physical Environment, Outdoor Education, Case Studies
Risk: The Ethics of a Creative Curriculum
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Hargreaves, Janet – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2008
Higher education in the UK espouses to develop intelligence and critical skills in undergraduates. To do this requires exposing students to challenge and thus risk. However, current models of quality assurance are risk-averse and thus potentially limit the scope of creative learning and teaching strategies. Using two case studies, this paper…
Descriptors: Risk Management, Quality Control, Ethics, Teaching Methods
Quick Win or Slow Burn: Modelling UK HE CAA Uptake
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Warburton, Bill – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2009
The uptake of CAA in UK higher education (HE) on a large scale lags behind the expectations of CAA specialists. A research project was undertaken with the aim of discovering and addressing the underlying reasons for this. The research was conducted according to Strauss and Corbin's (1998) prescription for grounded theory (GT) research. During…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Higher Education, College Faculty, Administrators