
Åsa Thelander
Lärare

Teaching and learning regimes as an educational challenge and opportunity
Författare
Summary, in Swedish
The paper is based on text analysis of 28 pedagogical portfolios written by Excellent Teaching Practitioners representing the majority of the departments and disciplines at the Faculty of Social Science. Although most excellent teachers can be said to share a kind of constructionist view, there are considerable differences between the teachers. Identified differences includes the understanding of the aim and role of the teacher, the relation teacher-student as well as actual practice. Three ideal types representing different TLRs are formed and we call them the Facilitator, the Therapist and the Scientist.
The Facilitator is focused on facilitating learning by providing order, structure and a favorable environment. The goal is to foster the student to citizens in a democracy. The Therapist emphasizes that the role of the teacher is to contribute to the students' personal development while the Scientist’s goal is to teach knowledge (what) and how knowledge is produced (why). The different understanding of the goal and role of the teacher results in different ways of understanding the learning process, the teacher-student relation and results in quite different preferences and ways of organizing and performing the teaching and learning activities.
Based on the portfolio texts, it is clear that teachers at some departments have similar approach to learning, so-called communities of practice (Wenger 2000). In this paper we discuss potential conflicts between TLRs from a teacher as well as the student perspective. However, from the analysis it is obvious that the different TLRs can enrich each other as all of them hosts tensions and contradictions. The potential is discussed and a set of questions intended to use to create awareness about TLRs and its consequences among teaching staff is presented.
References
Trowler, Paul R. & Ali Cooper, 2002. Teaching and learning regimes: implicit theories and recurrent practices in the enhancement of teaching and learning through educational development programmes, Higher Education Research and Development, vol. 21, no 3, pp. 221-240.
Wenger, Etienne (2000). Communities of practice and social learning systems. Organization 7(2): 225-246.
Avdelning/ar
- Statsvetenskapliga institutionen
- Institutionen för strategisk kommunikation
Publiceringsår
2020-12-08
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
12-20
Dokumenttyp
Konferensbidrag: abstract
Ämne
- Educational Sciences
Conference name
Lund University's Teaching and Learning Conference 2019
Conference date
2019-11-07 - 2020-11-07
Conference place
Lund, Sweden
Status
Published