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HEA retention and success seminar series 2012
Social integration and student engagement with disciplinary knowledge, 5 March 2012, University of Nottingham
For further details and how to register, please see the website: http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/events/detail/2012/seminars/themes/TW039_Nottingham
The workshop focuses on the teaching and learning of social science. It is widely observed that engagement with the academic project of being at university is a key component of students persevering in and benefitting from higher education. The workshop arises from a three-year ESRC–funded project called ‘Pedagogic Quality and Inequality in Undergraduate Degrees’ to be completed in January 2012. The project aimed to theorise effective and egalitarian teaching practices by investigating social science degrees in four different universities, using a theoretical framework drawn from the work of the sociologist of education Basil Bernstein.
The workshop will disseminate and build on striking findings about how, for students, good quality teaching supports their efforts to know and understand their discipline. Such teaching resides, above all, in (1) seminars which include authentic tasks and stimulating, challenging discussion in which all members partake and (2) good quality of relationships with tutors. The project has illuminated how these seemingly simple yet essential goals are difficult to achieve, and has also provided clues about how to achieve them.
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