Dear Dickson,
'Support' is not just ill-defined but hotly contested in the Learning
Development community. You will find that though we may agree that our
role is 'supportive' in many ways - we prefer the term 'development'
because it smacks less of the remedial overtones somehow bound up with
the term 'support'. For many of us 'development' is empowering and
emancipatory and applies to all no matter where on the learning
development continuum you may find yourself. Whilst 'support' implies
a deficit student and, at worst, a dependent/dependency relationship.
Your colleague might want to have a look at the Learning Development
Journal:
http://www.aldinhe.ac.uk/journal.html
Or the Learning Development in Higher Education book that we produced
recently that covers the emergence and development of this field.
With best wishes,
Sandra
On 19 June 2012 10:51, Dickson Telfer <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Hi folks,
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> I have a colleague in Health, Nursing and Midwifery who is studying for a
> PhD and is zooming in on the role of the link lecturer, specifically looking
> at their responsibilities surrounding ‘supporting student learning’.
> However, she has discovered that there appears to be no specific definition
> for this term – and sometimes link lecturers are found giving academic
> advice on coursework when visiting students on placement, where really the
> place for this is the university. She can find plenty stuff on learning
> theory but nothing concrete on ‘support’ theory.
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> Can anyone suggest resources that would help her find some sort of
> definition / discussion in relation to pedagogy?
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> Thanks in advance.
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> Dickson.
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