SECTION C: ASPECTS OF SCHOLARLY TEACHING

(i) Developing aims and content for scholarly teaching

 

Aim 3: How might a student learning approach to articulating aims and content be applied to your own field?
Topic 3:

Elaborating a discipline-based student learning approach to aims and content.

Read:

Ramsden: Chapter 8 "The goals and structure of a course". Particularly study the examples Ramsden gives of curriculum statements in several different disciplines (Pages 141-149) - Design Studies, Anatomy, Humanitis, Statistics an Engineering.

Task:

  • After studying Ramsden, revisit your own present approach to aims and content.
  • Where can you discern among the Aims and Contents statements you currently use, your concern for the quality of student learning and how they should approach their learning?
  • Consider which of Ramsden's case studies is closest to your disciplinary setting; and in what way that case might inform your own approach within your particular discipline.

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