This set of slides has been prepared for a workshop “Interdisciplinary methods for researching teaching and learning”. It summarises some ideas about intellectual work across conventional (disciplinary) boundaries in education. A number of them draw on the experiences writing Epistemic fluency book and working in the field of the leaning sciences more generally. The main message is the paradoxical tension between what educational research is as practice and how educational research is organised and institutionalised as a formal research field (aka. discipline).
Research-as-science, ….as disciplined inquiry
1. Finite cluster of social sciences: psychology, sociology, etc
2. Loose groupings: curriculum, professional development, etc
3. Discipline(s) on its own right: the learning sciences, other institutionalised practices
Research-as-project …as activity in the world
1. “Normal” science-as-project: compact vs. diffuse; explanatory vs. interpretative; conceptually driven vs. textually driven; explicit vs. implicit.
2. Researcher-participant collaboration
3. Multi-, Inter-, Trans-tribal research
Epistemic fluency in higher education: bridging actionable knowledgeable and ...Lina Markauskaite
A summary of the key ideas in the book "Epistemic fluency in higher education".
Based on the seminar: Epistemic fluency in higher education: bridging actionable knowledgeable and knowledgeable action"
15 November 2016 16:30
Seminar Room G
Speaker: Lina Markauskaite, Associate Professor, Centre for Research on Learning and Innovation, University of Sydney
Conveners: Dr Ian Thompson and Professor Harry Daniels, OSAT
What does it take to be a productive member of a multidisciplinary team working on a complex problem? How do people get better at these things? How can researchers get deeper insight in these valued capacities; and how can teachers help students develop them? Working on real-world professional problems usually requires the combination of different kinds of specialised and context-dependent knowledge, as well as different ways of knowing. People who are flexible and adept with respect to different ways of knowing about the world can be said to possess epistemic fluency.
Drawing upon and extending the notion of epistemic fluency, in this research seminar, I will present some key ideas that we developed studying how university teachers teach and students learn complex professional knowledge and skills. Our account combines grounded and enacted cognition with sociocultural and material perspectives of human knowing and focus on capacities that underpin knowledgeable action and innovative professional work. In this seminar, I will discuss critical roles of grounded conceptual knowledge, ability to embrace professional materially-grounded ways of knowing and students’ capacities to construct their epistemic environments.
The Kean Community was provided an open conversation about the value of interdisciplinarity for teaching, research, and community engagement. Divided into three dialogue segments, the workshop included outlining the development of ID courses and programs at Kean, addressing the conceptual meaning of inter- versus multi- and trans- disciplinarity, and an introduction to the new Interdisciplinary Studies Center as a Kean resource, housed within the College of Liberal Arts. The workshop offered practical, teaching-focused reflections on the methods and strategies that can be used in the course structure, set-up, delivery, and assessment of ID courses and minor programs. Application of the methods can be used to foster future cross-college interdisciplinary work and engage students in the classroom or as part of creative and scholarly works.
Epistemic fluency in higher education: bridging actionable knowledgeable and ...Lina Markauskaite
A summary of the key ideas in the book "Epistemic fluency in higher education".
Based on the seminar: Epistemic fluency in higher education: bridging actionable knowledgeable and knowledgeable action"
15 November 2016 16:30
Seminar Room G
Speaker: Lina Markauskaite, Associate Professor, Centre for Research on Learning and Innovation, University of Sydney
Conveners: Dr Ian Thompson and Professor Harry Daniels, OSAT
What does it take to be a productive member of a multidisciplinary team working on a complex problem? How do people get better at these things? How can researchers get deeper insight in these valued capacities; and how can teachers help students develop them? Working on real-world professional problems usually requires the combination of different kinds of specialised and context-dependent knowledge, as well as different ways of knowing. People who are flexible and adept with respect to different ways of knowing about the world can be said to possess epistemic fluency.
Drawing upon and extending the notion of epistemic fluency, in this research seminar, I will present some key ideas that we developed studying how university teachers teach and students learn complex professional knowledge and skills. Our account combines grounded and enacted cognition with sociocultural and material perspectives of human knowing and focus on capacities that underpin knowledgeable action and innovative professional work. In this seminar, I will discuss critical roles of grounded conceptual knowledge, ability to embrace professional materially-grounded ways of knowing and students’ capacities to construct their epistemic environments.
The Kean Community was provided an open conversation about the value of interdisciplinarity for teaching, research, and community engagement. Divided into three dialogue segments, the workshop included outlining the development of ID courses and programs at Kean, addressing the conceptual meaning of inter- versus multi- and trans- disciplinarity, and an introduction to the new Interdisciplinary Studies Center as a Kean resource, housed within the College of Liberal Arts. The workshop offered practical, teaching-focused reflections on the methods and strategies that can be used in the course structure, set-up, delivery, and assessment of ID courses and minor programs. Application of the methods can be used to foster future cross-college interdisciplinary work and engage students in the classroom or as part of creative and scholarly works.
Pursuing a Curriculum of Interdisciplinary StudiesGraham Garner
The pursuit of interdisciplinary studies in modern curricula represents the continued effort to design an education that gives students the knowledge about the world around them, the ability to critically think about it and then act to the advancement of knowledge and betterment of mankind. The traditional division of disciplines has raised barriers, and techniques from interdisciplinary studies can replace those with bridges. Educators must be committed to overcoming interdisciplinary studies’ unique challenges to make a difference in the future of curriculum.
Issues in Linking Teaching and Discipline Based Research: Disciplinary and De...NewportCELT
Professors Alan Jenkins (Oxford Brookes University) and Mick Healey (University of Gloucestershire) present Session 1 to the Higher Education Academy All Wales Research-Teaching Nexus Action Set Conference at Gregynog Hall, 1-2 September 2009 (near Newtown, Powys, Wales, UK). Session is introduced by the conference convenor Professor Simon Haslett of the Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching at the University of Wales, Newport (to skip introduction move to slide 2).
Mapping the Domain of Subject Area Integration: Elementary Educators’ Descriptions and Practices..................... 1
Gustave E. Nollmeyer, Lynn Kelting-Gibson and C. John Graves
Improving Leadership Practice through the Power of Reflection: An Epistemological Study .................................. 28
Ann Thanaraj
Towards Actualising Sustainable Education Standards in Nigeria ............................................................................... 44
Dr. B. K. Oyewole and Dr. (Mrs.) F. M. Osalusi
Policy of Carrying Capacity and Access to University Education in Nigeria: Issues, Challenges and the Way
Forward.................................................................................................................................................................................. 55
Dr (Mrs.) Chinyere Amini-Philips and Mukoro, Samuel Akpoyowaire
Who am I? Where am I Going? And which Path should I Choose? Developing the Personal and Professional
Identity of Student-Teachers ............................................................................................................................................... 71
Batia Riechman
Secondary Mathematics Teachers: What they Know and Don't Know about Dyscalculia ......................................... 84
Anastasia Chideridou–Mandari, Susana Padeliadu, Angeliki Karamatsouki, Angelos Sandravelis and Charalampos
Karagiannidis
Case Study – Results at Primary School Leaving Examination in a Rural District in Rwanda .................................. 99
Jan Willem Lackamp
Teacher Evaluation and Quality of Pedagogical Practices ............................................................................................ 118
Paul Malunda, David Onen, John C. S. Musaazi and Joseph Oonyu
Investigation Learners’ Performance in TOEFL Prior to their Participation in the TOEFL Enhancement Training
Program................................................................................................................................................................................ 134
Ardi Marwan, Anggita and Indah Anjar Reski
Practice-based research methods: Challenges and potentialsLina Markauskaite
Master class on practice based research methods 11 December 2019.
Education as an applied interdisciplinary research field faces acute challenges in defining the nature and scope of practice-based research. Constantly shifting notions of what it means to learn and, consequentially, what it means to teach make practice-based research a fluid and muddy concept. Increasing technologisation of learning environments and heightened expectations concerning the role of evidence in situated educational decisions have led some scholars to suggest a range of new approaches that are seen as more suitable for quickly changing research and practice contexts and capable to connect research with practice, design with teaching, and data with action. In this presentation, I discuss some different ways of thinking about these connections and emerging from them methodological implications. I argue that practice-based research has to ground itself in a much better understanding of diverse ways of knowing and embrace the notion of the methodological craftsmanship.
This workshops outlines approaches and tools for successful embedded industry research. Based in ethnography, it explores the do's and don't's of workmen with industry partners.
Pursuing a Curriculum of Interdisciplinary StudiesGraham Garner
The pursuit of interdisciplinary studies in modern curricula represents the continued effort to design an education that gives students the knowledge about the world around them, the ability to critically think about it and then act to the advancement of knowledge and betterment of mankind. The traditional division of disciplines has raised barriers, and techniques from interdisciplinary studies can replace those with bridges. Educators must be committed to overcoming interdisciplinary studies’ unique challenges to make a difference in the future of curriculum.
Issues in Linking Teaching and Discipline Based Research: Disciplinary and De...NewportCELT
Professors Alan Jenkins (Oxford Brookes University) and Mick Healey (University of Gloucestershire) present Session 1 to the Higher Education Academy All Wales Research-Teaching Nexus Action Set Conference at Gregynog Hall, 1-2 September 2009 (near Newtown, Powys, Wales, UK). Session is introduced by the conference convenor Professor Simon Haslett of the Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching at the University of Wales, Newport (to skip introduction move to slide 2).
Mapping the Domain of Subject Area Integration: Elementary Educators’ Descriptions and Practices..................... 1
Gustave E. Nollmeyer, Lynn Kelting-Gibson and C. John Graves
Improving Leadership Practice through the Power of Reflection: An Epistemological Study .................................. 28
Ann Thanaraj
Towards Actualising Sustainable Education Standards in Nigeria ............................................................................... 44
Dr. B. K. Oyewole and Dr. (Mrs.) F. M. Osalusi
Policy of Carrying Capacity and Access to University Education in Nigeria: Issues, Challenges and the Way
Forward.................................................................................................................................................................................. 55
Dr (Mrs.) Chinyere Amini-Philips and Mukoro, Samuel Akpoyowaire
Who am I? Where am I Going? And which Path should I Choose? Developing the Personal and Professional
Identity of Student-Teachers ............................................................................................................................................... 71
Batia Riechman
Secondary Mathematics Teachers: What they Know and Don't Know about Dyscalculia ......................................... 84
Anastasia Chideridou–Mandari, Susana Padeliadu, Angeliki Karamatsouki, Angelos Sandravelis and Charalampos
Karagiannidis
Case Study – Results at Primary School Leaving Examination in a Rural District in Rwanda .................................. 99
Jan Willem Lackamp
Teacher Evaluation and Quality of Pedagogical Practices ............................................................................................ 118
Paul Malunda, David Onen, John C. S. Musaazi and Joseph Oonyu
Investigation Learners’ Performance in TOEFL Prior to their Participation in the TOEFL Enhancement Training
Program................................................................................................................................................................................ 134
Ardi Marwan, Anggita and Indah Anjar Reski
Practice-based research methods: Challenges and potentialsLina Markauskaite
Master class on practice based research methods 11 December 2019.
Education as an applied interdisciplinary research field faces acute challenges in defining the nature and scope of practice-based research. Constantly shifting notions of what it means to learn and, consequentially, what it means to teach make practice-based research a fluid and muddy concept. Increasing technologisation of learning environments and heightened expectations concerning the role of evidence in situated educational decisions have led some scholars to suggest a range of new approaches that are seen as more suitable for quickly changing research and practice contexts and capable to connect research with practice, design with teaching, and data with action. In this presentation, I discuss some different ways of thinking about these connections and emerging from them methodological implications. I argue that practice-based research has to ground itself in a much better understanding of diverse ways of knowing and embrace the notion of the methodological craftsmanship.
This workshops outlines approaches and tools for successful embedded industry research. Based in ethnography, it explores the do's and don't's of workmen with industry partners.
Learning to co-create actionable knowledge across disciplinary and profession...Lina Markauskaite
Capability to work across disciplinary and professional boundaries has become an essential attribute of today’s professionals: it is integral to complex professional problem solving; it drives innovation and research; it is key for sustainable development of industries and communities. This presentation will discuss some frontier research ideas on how people develop capability to work across diverse knowledge boundaries and how this capability could be fostered in higher education and workplaces.
Bridging professional learning, doing and innovation through making epistemic...Lina Markauskaite
Bridging professional learning, doing and innovation through making epistemic artefacts
Lina Markauskaite and Peter Goodyear
Centre for Research on Learning and Innovation
Presented at the Practice-Based Education Summit “Bridging Practice Spaces” @ CSU, Sydney 13-14 April, 2016
Abstract
Professional learning and assessment in higher education often involve production of various artefacts, such as lesson plans and reflections in teaching, assessment reports and case studies in counselling, drawings and portfolios in architecture. What is the nature of the artefacts that students produce during their professional learning? How does students’ work on making these artefacts help them to bridge knowledge learnt in university setting with knowledge work in workplaces?
In this presentation we report on our research in which we combine socio-cultural “mediation” (Kaptelinin, 2005), socio-material “objectual practice” (Knorr Cetina, 2001) and extended ecological cognition perspectives (Ingold, 2012; Knappett, 2010) to investigate the nature of learning activities in the overlapping spaces of the university and the workplace. Specifically, we investigate the nature of the artefacts that students create as a part of assessment tasks during their preparation for professional practice.
Initially, we argue that learning in university settings and doing in workplaces are two distinct kinds of objectual practices that are inherently directed towards different kinds of objects. We unpack the nature of these two kinds of objectual practices by distinguishing between object as motive and object as material entity. Specifically, We show that university learning orients itself towards abstract forms of knowledge that can travel across diverse workplace contexts and situations, while workplace practices orient themselves towards production of concrete situated solutions of specific professional problems.
Then, we look at the nature of activities and artefacts produced by students during preparation for work placements in the overlapping space of the university and the workplace., what kinds of epistemic experiences these artefacts afford and what their relationships with professional knowledge and knowing practices are. We show that these artefact-oriented activities, and the artefacts produced, often connect, rather than separate, abstract knowledge and objects of professional practice with embodied skill through concrete, materially expressed, actions and things . This entangled epistemic nature of professional learning artefacts allows bridging not only learning and work, but also learning and innovation. To make this argument we distinguish between different kinds of epistemic artefacts that students create – showing the ways in which they elucidate, preserve, transfer, fine-tune, mediate and advance upon professional knowledge and skills.
Opponent's questions in the public examination of Marcus Duveskog's doctoral dissertation, School of Computing, University of Eastern Finland, January 29, 2015.
This presentation addresses recent calls for the importance of multidisciplinary research and action in communication design. The impetus for multidisciplinary perspectives toward communication design is technological change, rapid developments in work products and processes, and the perception that emerging issues in the workplace demand additional competencies and knowledge. Terminology related to multidisciplinarity, such as disciplinarity, cross-disciplinarity, interdisciplinarity, and transdisciplinarity, is defined. Since ACM SIGDOC members are distributed across academic and nonacademic fields and institutions, the focus will be on discipline as epistemology and as language with the goal of explicating common frameworks and terminology for better articulating communication design and work.
Leading transdisciplinary projects to success: Isabelle LessardFuture Earth
Explore how researchers can mobilise and engage scientists and stakeholders in transdisciplinary research processes to produce solutions for sustainable development. The webinar shares experiences presented by participants from CIRODD, the Centre interdisciplinaire de recherche en opérationnalisation du développement durable.
Introductory presentation for MashingUp:Practice+Research symposium at CCA Glasgow, 19th May 2010. Part of a series of public events from the University of the West of Scotland's School of Creative and Cultural Industries. For more info visit http://uwspracticeresearch.blogspot.com
Crafting Hackerspaces with Moodle and Mahara: The Potential of Creation based...Jingjing Lin
Associated keynote talk can be found on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slIITVfOhXg&t=1433s
On February 18, 2022, I delivered a rather interesting and important talk online to a group of 60ish educators, researchers, and practitioners on teaching with Moodle in MoodleMoot Japan 2022. If the following keywords interest you, you should not miss this video: ontology, epistemology, psychology, educational paradigms, learning theories, and pedagogy. This video also for the first time introduces an original untested learning theory called by me "creation-based learning (CBL)". I embrace the learning paradigms of #constructivism and #connectivism. I also am a strong fan of constructionism. I hope CBL will be one step further to promote active learning online. In this video, I also raised the idea of "sustainable learning behaviors" and raised the attention of the public towards sustainable learning behaviors of creating, maintaining, recycling, renewing, and sharing knowledge using networked digital technologies.
Kirsty Kitto, Simon Buckingham Shum, and Andrew Gibson. (2018). Embracing Imperfection in Learning Analytics. In Proceedings of LAK18: International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge, March 5–9, 2018, Sydney, NSW, Australia, pp.451-460. (ACM, New York, NY, USA). https://doi.org/10.1145/3170358.3170413
Open Access: http://simon.buckinghamshum.net/2018/01/embracing-imperfection-in-learning-analytics
Abstract: Learning Analytics (LA) sits at the confluence of many contributing disciplines, which brings the risk of hidden assumptions inherited from those fields. Here, we consider a hidden assumption derived from computer science, namely, that improving computational accuracy in classification is always a worthy goal. We demonstrate that this assumption is unlikely to hold in some important educational contexts, and argue that embracing computational “imperfection” can improve outcomes for those scenarios. Specifically, we show that learner-facing approaches aimed at “learning how to learn” require more holistic validation strategies. We consider what information must be provided in order to reasonably evaluate algorithmic tools in LA, to facilitate transparency and realistic performance comparisons.
“World creation” How might we educate the citizens of the future to be thoug...Stine Ejsing-Duun
Education that focus on facts and grades does not nurture creativity and problem-solving skills. If the new generations are expected to tackle real-world problems, we need to be able to learn from practice and use theory, but also to produce new insights in the realm of the unknown. When venturing into untrodden ground, tackling emerging problems abductive reasoning as a type of reasoning that is behind introducing new ideas. However, while inductive and deductive reasoning is highly appreciated, abductive reasoning is a way of thinking often not supported in (higher) education.
Through an investigation of abductive reasoning, design as inquiry, and design thinking as approaches to pedagogy and learning, this presentation shows possibilities for nurturing creativity and critical thinking. In my talk, I will use examples from different parts of the educational system. It relates to game-based learning, design thinking and design practice.
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Interdisciplinarity and Epistemic Fluency: What makes complex knowledge work ...Lina Markauskaite
Webinar 2 “Interdisciplinarity in Technology-Enhanced Learning”
The topic chosen for the second edition of the Webinar series is “Interdisciplinarity in TEL”. The TEL field is interdisciplinary by definition. This makes TEL an especially interesting research field. Yet, it also brings complexity at different levels. A challenge for TEL researchers is to properly understand what is interdisciplinarity in our field, its challenges and implications. In the first part of the dialog, Lina Markauskaite will elaborate on the concept of epistemic fluency as “the capacity to understand, switch between and combine different kinds of knowledge and different ways of knowing about the world” (Markauskaite & Goodyear, 2016)
Quality multiplied: Learning that matters in a runaway worldLina Markauskaite
The OpenLearning Conference 27 November 2018 https://www.conference.openlearning.com
Quality multiplied: Learning that matters in a runaway world
Lina Markauskaite
Centre for Research on Learning and Innovation
The University of Sydney, Australia
Abstract
How can we help prepare students to solve wicked problems when nobody knows exactly what these problems will be, for jobs and professions that do not yet exist and for a society whose contours, as Anthony Giddens put it, ‘we can as yet only dimly see’?
For the last ten years, I have been researching how university students learn to integrate different kinds of knowledge and ways of knowing needed for innovative and skilful professional action in the world — how they develop a capability called ‘epistemic fluency’. Drawing on my studies and related innovations in my teaching, I will argue that education needs to go beyond the established notions of ‘learning as knowledge acquisition’ or ‘learning as participation’ and go beyond developing courses or shaping students’ experiences. Instead, it should focus on learning that enables students to re-imagine their future, co-assemble their own environments, and co-create actionable knowledge that runs away outside the educational institutions. This is a risky business that requires openness to the world in which the students will live, in fact, to the world which they will co-create.
Universities and other educational institutions have skin in this game. They need courage and wisdom to move beyond their secure ‘industrial’ methods for assuring educational quality, and embrace a greater diversity of ways in which they teach and produce socially valuable knowledge.
Workshop: Assessment as boundary work: between the discipline and the professionLina Markauskaite
This workshop is for academics, learning designers and academic leaders who work with developing assessment tasks across the spectrum of work integrated learning initiatives. Participants are asked to come with an assessment task that they have used, or plan to use, for students preparing for, or reflecting on, a work placement, practicum or simulated work experience. The workshop will explore how these types of assessment tasks create a dialogue at the boundary between academic discipline knowledge and the reflexive knowledge of a skilled practitioner. Peter and Lina will draw on their recent work on epistemic fluency to introduce the workshop. They have analysed a range of assessment task designs in a variety of professional education contexts to try to identify the multiple forms of knowledge and ways of knowing with which students have to become fluent in preparing for professional practice. Many aspects of professional work involve the creation of new understandings – such as in inter-professional dialogues or client consultations. Often this epistemic work goes unnoticed, though sometimes it involves conscious problem-solving and innovation. The workshop will be a hands-on investigation of how these ideas about epistemic fluency, knowledge work and actionable knowledge can be applied in designing better assessment tasks.
Learning as construction of actionable concepts: A multimodal blending perspe...Lina Markauskaite
In mainstream cognitive research, ‘formal concepts’ usually serve as the main unit of analysis for investigating students’ conceptual learning. Accordingly, conceptual understanding is often seen as a capacity to take an already acquired formal concept and transfer it intact to a new situation, by recognising structural commonalities and using analogy. We use our research into how pre-service (student) teachers design lessons to show that their capacity to use concepts in real world professional work cannot be understood as a simple transfer of formal concepts to new situations. Rather, actionable conceptual understanding, or concepts that are used in action, involve a capacity to construct situated conceptualisations dynamically: by selecting, projecting, mapping and blending relevant conceptual features with material and symbolic affordances of the encountered situation into one emerging multimodal construct that becomes a part of an embodied action. Extending conceptual and material blending (Fauconnier & Turner, 1998; Hutchins, 2005), we show that construction of multimodal blends serves as a productive unit of analysis for investigating conceptual learning for professional action.
Insights into the dynamics between changing professional fields and teaching ...Lina Markauskaite
What counts as expert knowledge, and what is expected from knowledgeable practitioners are subject to continual change in professional fields. Consequently, professional education programmes are often challenged to ascertain their capacities to prepare “job-ready” graduates for such changing professional knowledge work. However, what is the nature of these changes and how they get incorporated into teaching and learning practices in university courses are rarely examined, so teachers running courses for professional education get little guidance about how it can be more clearly conceptualised, and done better. Our study focussed on “epistemic shifts” – observable changes in professional fields that bear on how professionals are expected to work with knowledge. We aimed to understand how recent epistemic shifts in specific professional fields were instantiated in assessment tasks in professional courses. We focussed on assessment tasks as these tasks give insights not only into what and how students learn, but also into what counts as “job-ready” graduates. Our detailed case studies came from five courses – in pharmacy, nursing, social work, school counselling and education. Our results show that the epistemic shifts varied in their transformative scale and in the ways they became incorporated in assessment tasks: from implicit incorporation of an ongoing flow of small shifts into established professional tasks, to introduction of new professional epistemic practices. The analytical framework we have constructed helps depict what is actually changing in students’ epistemic practices when assessment tasks are redesigned and what kinds of new epistemic capabilities students will consequently develop.
Preparing teachers for knowledgeable action: Epistemic fluency, innovation pe...Lina Markauskaite
This presentation is around the theme “Preparing teachers for knowledgeable action”. I mainly talk about the nature of teachers' actionable knowledge and productive learning and assessment tasks.
Main topics
1. Seeing teachers’ knowledge and learning form a ‘practice' perspective (I briefly introduce ways in which we have been looking at professional skilfulness and preparation)
2. Unpacking teachers’ resourcefulness for knowledgeable action (I briefly give some insights into what we call "epistemic fluency", particularly what makes teacher’s action “knowledgeable” and knowledge “actionable")
3. Assessment artefacts: what do they say us about work readiness, knowledgeability, and capability for knowledgeable action? (here, I will give some insights into what kinds of artefacts teachers are actually asked to produce and submit for assessment and what they say us about what teachers know and should be able to do)
4. Innovation pedagogy as an approach to prepare and assess work-capable graduates (some examples into how learning through innovation looks like and some (provocative) suggestions how ‘measurement’ of teachers’ readiness could look like).
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Summary
Capacities to drive collective learning, address jointly complex practical challenges and create innovative solutions are seen essential for future graduates. How to prepare students to lead complex collaborative learning, change and innovation projects? How to assist them to develop knowledge and skills needed for resourceful teamwork with other people who have different expertises, experiences, and interests?
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The course draws on the second-order pedagogy and grants students’ agency to design not only the innovation, but also their own learning and innovation process and environment. Students choose complex real life organisational learning or educational change challenges and, over the course of the semester, work in small innovation teams by analysing an encountered problematical situation, modelling possible scenarios and developing innovative solutions. As a result, each team creates a practical guide for Change and Innovation Managers who will be tasked with implementing the proposed innovation in an organisational setting.
The main emphasis is on fostering expansive learning and deliberative innovation culture trough cultivating systems thinking, design practice and responsive action. Through engaging in systemic inquiry, innovation design tasks and authentic teamwork, students develop a number of graduate attributes that are critical for joint learning and knowledge-informed, responsive action in modern workplaces, such as analytical and integrative thinking, effective teamwork, multidisciplinary and intercultural competencies.
Evaluations show that this course promotes deep student engagement and brings about transformative learning experiences. It is now offered as an elective in two other interdisciplinary masters programs.
Teaching people to think and work across disciplinary and professional bounda...Lina Markauskaite
Teaching people to think and work across disciplinary and professional boundaries
Organisers and invited discussants: Lina Markauskaite, Peter Goodyear, Marie Carroll, Tina Hinton, Philip Poronnik, Kim Bell-Anderson, Simon Poon
TIME: 11:00-11:45am, Thursday 5, November, STL Research Fest 2015
Developing students’ capacities to work in multidisciplinary teams, communicate effectively with people across traditional professional boundaries, and solve complex real-world issues are a priority area for future enhancements of university teaching. But what is really involved? What kinds of capacities do students actually need for working effectively across disciplinary and professional boundaries? What kinds of interdisciplinary teaching and learning models are effective? What kinds of teaching and learning approaches are most productive for enhancing students’ capacities? How can we validly and effectively assess students’ mastery of various interdisciplinary skills?
In this session, we will share some insights from recent research and teaching, as a stimulus to discussing experiences and practical action in this space. If there is sufficient support, we envisage forming an action research group to collaborate in innovative educational R&D over the next few years.
If you are interested in this challenging area but can’t attend the event, please send us an email and we will keep you informed.
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Markauskaite, L., Goodyear, P., & Bachfischer, A. (2014) Epistemic games for knowledgeable action in professional learning. In Polman, J. L., Kyza, E. A., O’Neill, D. K., Tabak, I., Penuel, W. R., Jurow, A. S., O’Connor, K., Lee, T., and D’Amico, L. (Eds.), Learning and becoming in practice: The International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS) 2014, June 23–27 2014, University of Colorado Boulder. Proceedings (Vol. 3, pp.1289–1292). Boulder, CO: International Society of the Learning Sciences. Retrieved from
http://isls.org/icls/2014/downloads/ICLS%202014%20Volume%203%20%28PDF%29-wCover.pdf
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This presentation provides a briefing on how to upload submissions and documents in Google Classroom. It was prepared as part of an orientation for new Sainik School in-service teacher trainees. As a training officer, my goal is to ensure that you are comfortable and proficient with this essential tool for managing assignments and fostering student engagement.
2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...Sandy Millin
http://sandymillin.wordpress.com/iateflwebinar2024
Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
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Interdisciplinary methods for researching teaching and learning
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Interdisciplinary
methods for researching
teaching and learning
Workshop
Lina Markauskaitė
24 November 2016 @ University of
Stirling
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My 2 (out of 5) “modes” of making
interdisciplinarity
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Interdisciplinarity: ‘hot’ but not ‘new’
Origins
– Circa1920
– US Social Science
Research Council
– A bureaucratic shorthand
to refer to all SRC’s
societies
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Two images of interdisciplinary: Bright
From Frank, 1988, p. 146
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What do we mean by it?
From Frank, 1988, p. 143
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Interdisciplinarities…
Multidisciplinarity
Within disciplines
Close disciplines
Complementing
Methodological
Instrumental
‘Single man’ science
Cooperative
Collocated
Knowledge focussed
Professional
Transdisciplinarity
Across disciplines
Remote disciplines
Hybridizing
Theoretical
Critical
Team science
Collaborative
Remote
Problem-focused
Social
Integration
Scope
Proximity
Function
Extent
Sharing
Nature
Mode
Role
Distribution
Space
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Disciplines of education
1. Psychology
2. Sociology
3. Philosophy
4. History
5. Economics
6. Comparative ed
7. Geography
8. …
Education as major “importer” from other disciplines
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v534/n7609/ful…
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What is “within” and what is “across”?
Education as an (interdisciplinary) field of study
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v534/n7609/ful…
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Discipline as…
…a set of shared dispositions
about:
a) Objects
b) Evidence
c) Methods
d) Expertise
Production of cumulative
knowledge
A dual mandate of “science”:
• values intellectual agency
• imposes constrains on
knowledge development
https://www.findaupair.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/kids-discipline
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Educational research as…
Research-as-science
1. Finite cluster of social
sciences: psychology,
sociology, etc
2. Loose groupings:
curriculum, professional
development, etc
3. Discipline(s) on its own
right: the learning
sciences, other
institutionalised practices
….as disciplined inquiry
Research-as-project
1. “Normal” science-as-
project: diffuse,
interpretative, textually
driven, implicit
2. Researcher-participant
collaboration
3. Multi-, Inter-, Trans-tribal
research
…as activity in the world
MacDonald, 1994; Tolumin, 1972
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Has educational research
ever been mono-
disciplinary?
John Furlong, 2016 Nov 17
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Your questions, comments, reflections…
1. How do you describe your “tradition”?
2. What is “inter-” in your project?
Education
Source: http://xkcd.com/435/
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EXAMPLE 1:
‘Easy’ interdisciplinarity
Following a tradition
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From ISLS Vision 2009
Interdisciplinary tradition of the learning
sciences
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A view of learning
Learning is distributed…
…across people, and across tools and artifacts.
Activity
System
…therefore, it is situated and,
importantly, mediated.
Research involves production of
design artefacts – technology,
models, principles, theories
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Design-based research
…a systematic but flexible
methodology aimed to improve
educational practices through
iterative analysis, design,
development, and implementation,
based on collaboration among
researchers and practitioners in
real-world settings, and leading to
contextually-sensitive design
principles and theories.
Wang & Hannafin, 2005, p.
6
…involves the creation of a
theoretically-inspired innovation,
usually a learning environment, to
directly address a local problem.
Barab, 2008, p. 155
Action
research
(Lab)
experimen
ts
DBR
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DBR: Main steps & characteristics
1. Grounded in theory and
real-world settings
2. Addresses theory-
building and practice
innovation
3. Interactive, participatory
4. Iterative, flexible
5. Integrative (mixed
methods)
6. Contextual
1 Exploration and
development of
“grounded models”
2 Development of
artifacts
3 Feasibility/Field
Study/ Definitive
Test
4. Dissemination &
Impact
5. Refinement
Middleton et al, 2008
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Example: Learning about climate systems
– Learning complexity
knowledge
– “Productive failure” and
analogical encoding
– Developing concrete
models, worksheets, etc
– Trialing solutions in a
classroom, refining
Acknowledgement: ARC Linkage project with Michael Jacobson
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DBR: Some challenges
1. Researcher-participant relationship and roles
2. Hawthorne effect
3. Reliability and validity
4. Capturing context and process
5. Managing, integrating and analyzing various, often ‘rich’,
data formats
Design &
Refine
Implement &
Observe
Analyze
Design &
Refine
Implement &
Observe
Analyze
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EXAMPLE 2:
‘Hard’
interdisciplinarity
Working outside
educational traditions
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Some layers of social inquiry: and living
between the “ends”
What kind of conclusions will
we be able to draw?
Where do we focus?
What kind of evidence do we
collect?
What things do we choose to
notice?
How do we know & research?
What kinds of questions do we
ask?ONTOLOGY
EPISTEMOLOGY
METHODOLOGY
INSTRUMENTATION
DATA
ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES
Realism
Positivism
Nomothetic
Segregation
Numerical
Statistical
Nominalism
Anti-positivist
Ideographic
Integration
Qualitative
Interpretative
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“Descartes error”
Post-positivism Critical
(Discourse analysis)
Participatory,
Constructivist
(Action research)
Post-modernism
New materialism
Ecological perspectives
Performative
(Arts-based inquiry)
Complexity
Positivist Interpretativist
(Interaction analysis, Phenomenology)
Critical realism
(Design based research)
Feminism
(Discourse analysis)
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“Performative” science
Ontology
– Materialist
– Phenomenological
– Psychology of perception
Epistemology
– Performative: centrality of
“raw” perception, skill, body
and action
– [Anthropology] is not a study of at
all, but a study with.
Anthropologists work and study
with people. Immersed with them in
an environment of joint activity, they
learn to see things (or hear them, or
touch them) <…> it educates our
perception of the world, and opens
our eyes and minds to other
possibilities of being.” (Ingold,
2010, 238)
Material ecology
It is NOT an eclectic constellation of
different ontologies, epistemologies
and methodologies
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Example: Studying “actionable knowledge”
Ontology: realist, dynamic
Axiology: internal-external
Epistemology: manifold
Human nature: grounded
Methodology: interpretativeImmanuel Kant
1724-1804
Thomas S. Kuhn
1922-1996
David Hume
1711-1776
Manuel Delanda
Lawrence Barsalou
Stephen Toulmin
1922-2009
Atkinson & Shriffin
Grounded cognition & manifold view of human conceptual understanding
It is NOT an eclectic constellation
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Research as “method” and Research as “craft”
Design
Data
Analysis
Findings
Hypothesis
Design
Data
Analysis
Findings
Hypothesis
Design
Data
Analysis
Hypothesis
Data
Analysis
Analysis
Analysis
Hypothesis
Findings
Findings
Findings
Improvisation based on Patton (2011) Developmental evaluation
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Traditional challenges
Design
Data
Analysis
Findings
Hypothesis
Design
Data
Analysis
Hypothesis
Data
Analysis
Analysis
Analysis
Hypothesis
Findings
Findings
Findings
Improvisation based on Patton (2011) Developmental evaluation
1. Lack of compact theoretical language
2. No ready methodological toolbox
3. Being outside “epistemic renting” culture
4. Creating cumulative knowledge
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Your questions and comments
1. What are your main methodological challenges working in
your “inter” spaces?
Education
Source: http://xkcd.com/435/
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Interdisciplinary work requires
epistemological awareness and...
epistemic fluency
Email:
Lina.Marakauskaite@sydney.edu.au
My final note