Hello Rosalind,
I'm not sure whether you can reduce the instruction design to one orientation in our SCITT.
I'm unhappy with the notion of 'instruction design ' too...
I would have thought that various orientations/theoretical conceptions are reflected in what we do.
Seminar leaders, mentors, professional tutors will also have their own theories of learning embedded in practice.
'Experiential', 'reflection', self-assessment/peer and tutor assessment all feature
, but so do straight instructional techniques, research and enquiry.
There is a structure to the year's course, and I suppose that could be analysed for dominant theoretical perspectives..........
The training scheme is eclectic, complex and multi-dimensional..... I'm not sure how practical or beneficial it is for me to try to reduce it to 'orientations'?
This is probably not a lot of help!
Best wishes in your work
Brian
Brian E. WakemanFree-lance Educational Consultant
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Dear Sarah, Dear All,
I would really appreciate it if we could look closer at the instructional design provided by Universities for ITE so that this may help inform me as to their orientation whether it be as in the question below- cognitivist or reductionist or constructivist or even mechanistic!
My aim is to clarify the practices of organisational learning and interpret them within sociocultural learning theory. I am informed (Boreham, et. al, 2004) that dialogue is the fundamental process by which organisations learn, and relational practices as the social structure which embeds the dialogue into the environment but I wondered if there is evidence of this here in the UK?
Best wishes
Rosalind
1. The instructional design of the University ITE course I researched for
this paper was inherently cognitivist in its orientation, as opposed to a
reductionist view of competencies.
Is this typical of all University ITE courses?
And should it be?
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Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 8:49 AM
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Dear Rosalind (and Everyone),
re.my apologies last night for not understanding. It was a very long day here too in Vienna - wonderful evening with Tadashi & friends! Part of my problem may have been exhaustion. Apologies again - for bombarding you with questions! Hope you'll have time to assist me.
On my way home to London,
Warm regards,
Sarah
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