Research dissemination within and beyond the curriculum
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Author: Dr Helen Walkington, Oxford Brookes University.
Keynote Presentation at the Research - Teaching in Wales 2011 Conference, 13th - 14th September, Gregynog Hall, Newtown (Powys)
8. Robertson, S., Walkington, H. (2009) Recycling and waste minimisation behaviours of the transient student population in Oxford: results of an online survey. Local Environment : The International Journal of Justice and Sustainability 14 (4), 285-296. Willingness to minimise waste Claimed recycling behaviour Gender Age University Type of accommodation Environmental concern Waste concern Environmental knowledge Attitude towards recycling Normative influence Box provision
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10. Student as … Ref:– ladder metaphor from Arnstein, 1969; descriptors adapted from Hart, 1992 3.4.4 “A research-informed curriculum will enable learners to benefit from collaboration in a research community as producers of knowledge through research-based learning” 1. Students are assigned but informed 2. Students are consulted and informed 3. Staff initiated, shared decisions with students 4. Student initiated and directed 5. Student initiated decisions shared with university staff Student engagement with research Levels of participation
11. Self-authorship - the central goal of HE in the 21st Century (Baxter-Magolda, 2004) Understanding research and participation in the research process, are central to the needs of undergraduate students in HE (Jenkins and Healey, 2007) Context “ Education must begin with the solution of the teacher-student contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously students and teachers ” (Freire, 1970, p. 72).
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13. Average learning retention rates Teaching others Lectures Audio-visual Reading See a demonstration Discussing in a group Put into Practice 5% 10% 20% 30% 50% 75% 90% Adapted from NTL Institute for Applied Behavioural Science
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20. Aperture 4 – National Image source: http://www.bcur.org/ Many disciplines!
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24. Inclusive and supportive Highly selective but supportive Values As a pedagogical tool to benefit Brookes geography students To establish a national journal for undergraduate research in Geography Purpose ‘ Light touch’ refereeing Undergraduate student editor 4 postgraduate reviewers Rigorous refereeing across 4 institutions 8 academic staff editors 16 postgraduate reviewers Process Showcase the range of research work carried out in the department. A professional publication to showcase top quality undergraduate research Aim Departmental , geography students National , piloted at 4 universities initially Geography Student body Geoversity GEOverse Journal
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36. Academic literacy Recognition as a disciplinary researcher Student engagement vs Student alienation (Mann, 2001) "that conference was fantastic … staff in the department recognised me as a researcher , as a result I was a guest speaker in one of the geography modules, I met with a photo-journalist, I’ve gained a lot of key skills which are important for work as well." "it has been nice just talking to people in a non-lecturer/student capacity, everyone was very much on equal terms , yeah that was the first time that has happened.”
37. Critical self awareness & personal literacy Critical thinking and reflection through dialogue, immediate in-depth feedback ‘ I think it allows some sort of self-criticality … It has opened up areas of thought for me that I wouldn’t have considered otherwise ’ ‘ It enabled you to become objective, to analyse your own work , to re-read your work.’
38. ‘ Normally only two or three people see your dissertation, so being able to share your research in this way makes all the hard work worthwhile.’ ‘ It’s amazing to see other people’s work presented like this.’ ‘ It’s a dual feedback system, the students coming to the conference get ideas about what they want to produce, and as someone presenting it is important for me to see how people interact with my ideas’
39. ‘ the unknown audience enhanced employability skills like dealing with people you don’t know ’ ‘ The job I'm going into I'm going to be doing a lot of presentations and meeting a lot of unfamiliar people and to a certain extent selling my ideas and my research , so it was good experience for me.’ ‘One of the lecturers said “You could suggest this to local councils.” I hadn’t thought about its REAL implications , I made this idea that people could take on but I didn’t really think about [it] being taken on by councils until that conversation.’ Employability (SESE)
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45. GA: Research literacy – curriculum implications Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Desktop research to try to answer provided research questions S2 - Student teams present preliminary findings for “feedforward.” S1 - Students frame own questions for group data collection in the field S2 – CUR S1 - Individual journal articles written for GEOverse
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Notas del editor
HW Geographer VSO PhD in Geo ed Soils at arch sites PL at Brookes NTF
Metaphors! Beware student
Image from: clip art
Organic onions have a much lower carbon demand but also have a much lower yield so in terms of per hectare come off poorly
Make this participatory I shout out student as producer, they say which box it goes in…. Student as consumer…. Student as change agent Read out (auditory): 'There is a subtle, but extremely important, difference between an institution that 'listens' to students and responds accordingly, and an institution that gives students the opportunity to explore areas that they believe to be significant, to recommend solutions and to bring about the required changes. The concept of 'listening to the student voice' - implicitly if not deliberately - supports the perspective of student as 'consumer', whereas 'students as change agents' explicitly supports a view of the student as 'active collaborator' and 'co-producer', with the potential for transformation.' (Dunne in Foreword to Dunne and Zandstra, 2011) Refer to handout In pairs decide where you think the following terms go in the table: Who used these terms? Student as producer Student as change agent Student as co-producer Student as consumer Student as client
balancing external influences with “internally-generated” beliefs and goals “ the capacity to author, or invent, one’s own belief’s, values, sense of self, and relationships with others” intense reflection so individual can express “how I know” Baxter Magolda, 2009
Link to ladder of participation
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Authenticity of task Authentic assessment (Yorke, 2005) The assessment of authentic performance (Yorke, 2005) Aperture metaphor– exposure of work within module / dept, institution – multi institution, fully public.
Example 1 - Built Environment Tutor: Mary Hancock U30020 Case Studies (2 iterations using wiki for collaborative case study report) Students in groups of 5-6 choose and visit building/location, gather data about it, collate and present data in wiki; film, edit and burn to DVD a video presentation of building. Videos published to Brookes Virtual. Techologies: digital photography, digital video, dictaphone (questionnaire), DVD, wiki, VLE. Dissemination: wiki, DVD, VLE How public? Wiki viewable by anyone with wiki account. Video presentations viewable by subsequent cohorts in Brookes Virtual and available to be lent out on DVD.
Staff: Elaine Le Corre, Ruth Millar Comment tab Selective release of items to the public through a process of internal review by students and tutors
Tutors: Jane Anderson and Colin Priest Built Environment
(planning, scripting, filming, dissemination through website, streaming server), Technology Stress targeting a GLOBAL audience Scaffolding / linking publication formats e.g. TV could showcase recent new undergraduate research findings
Ask for shut eyes and I will read it to them (for auditory learners)
Student experience Fantastic! The conference enabled me to be recognised as a student researcher who is interacting with their subject in a positive way. Being able to talk with academics from different disciplines as well as those from the Geography department meant I felt that the research of undergraduate students was being well recognised. I found making the poster rewarding as I could summarise my dissertation in a few hundred words which bought the project into focus. Overall the experience was very beneficial to me as a student, and as a soon to be graduate. It is also something that I can add to my CV. Normally only two or three people see your dissertation, so being able to share your research in this way makes all the hard work worthwhile. It’s amazing to see other people’s work presented like this. I have absolutely loved doing this, and would definitely recommend it to other students. An exciting and different way to share ideas and learn at Brookes I would definitely attend a conference again, however I think more information needs to be given about the event to increase attendance.
Student engagement vs alienation (Mann, 2001) Freire: the teacher-student contradiction
Normally only two or three people see your dissertation, so being able to share your research in this way makes all the hard work worthwhile. It’s amazing to see other people’s work presented like this.
sent link to friends, family / other students to share, impressed other lecturers
NB authenticity: the research process as an inquiry should have primacy, and that the modes of development and exposition should be “authentic” to the research context. Authentic in the context of a creative art & design programme is therefore understood to include creative art & design practice itself.