Morning, Graham
How does this relate to any claims to educational provision being vocational? We do claim that for some/most of our courses here- there is a lot of discourse about employability, preparation for
practice, industry links etc etc and much of the work is based on conceptions of communities of practice (not that they necessarily use that construct consciously). So, if this is the case, should
we have house rules that differ from industry norms?
I appreciate that because we are degree-awarding institutions we have to do things at times that differ from industry practice. For example, as far as I can establish, design industries' law on
copywright is not as tight as our expectations around avoiding plagiarism....and of course there are the journalism courses..........
The debate about how we relate to industry norms is also interesting re the other strand on team work and collusion. What are the industry norms there? Indeed what are our own norms......writing
validation documents for example?
I always come back to the point about degree-awarding. Is a particular academic practice necessary because of the whole nature of awarding individual degrees? If yes, then fine I can accept that.
If not, then why are we insisting on it?
Wouldn't it be nice to be able to spend whole mornings exploring this rather than doing all the things sitting on our desks????
Margo
Graham Lewis wrote:
> Too much coffee too early perhaps but here are my thoughts for what they are worth;
>
> House rules only apply when you are still in the house. Out in the real world many referencing systems exist. The house rule serves several purposes:
> 1. It makes marking easier
> 2. It teaches the discipline of complying with a standard
> 3. It teaches the value of standards (not the same as 2)
>
> I would say the most valuable of these for the student in the long term is 3. It seems to me that Matt's approach focuses on the principles rtaher than the rules which I would argue has longer
>
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