ERIC Number: EJ1030942
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2014
Pages: 14
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ISSN: ISSN-0729-4360
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Managing Curriculum Change and "Ontological Uncertainty" in Tertiary Education
Keesing-Styles, Linda; Nash, Simon; Ayres, Robert
Higher Education Research and Development, v33 n3 p496-509 2014
Curriculum reform at institutional level is a challenging endeavour. Those charged with leading this process will encounter both enthusiasm and multiple obstacles to teacher engagement including the particularly complex issue of confronting existing teacher identities. At Unitec Institute of Technology (Unitec), the "Living Curriculum" initiative focused on whole-of-institution curriculum renewal and, in the process, acknowledged and addressed teacher beliefs and practices that variously supported and contested both the initiative itself and the professional development offerings that accompanied it. The related research project identified factors and processes that unsettle teachers, rendering them "insecure," and strategies that have proven effective in supporting teachers through significant change in conceptions of curriculum, teaching and learning.
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, College Curriculum, Postsecondary Education, College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Barriers, Professional Identity, Faculty Development, Security (Psychology), Qualitative Research, Case Studies, Focus Groups, Interviews, Foreign Countries
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Postsecondary Education; Higher Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: New Zealand
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