ERIC Number: EJ782396
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2008-Jan
Pages: 13
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ISSN: ISSN-0742-051X
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Innovation, Research and Professional Development in Higher Education: Learning from Our Own Experience
Garcia, Leonor Margalef; Roblin, Natalie Pareja
Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, v24 n1 p104-116 Jan 2008
This paper describes and analyses an innovative experience carried out by a group of lecturers from the Psychopedagogy Faculty of the University of Alcala, involved in an action research process with the purpose of reflecting about our own practice and constructing alternative teaching strategies to facilitate students' reflective, autonomous and critic learning. The experience consists of a didactical proposal through which we intend to establish connections and interdisciplinary relationships among courses, in order to break down the isolation that usually characterizes the work of university teachers, and move towards a more global and complex formula for curriculum development. We also propose the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) as tools to support the learning process and expand opportunities for reflection, dialogue and collaboration beyond the classroom activities. The results of this experience show a dialectic interaction amongst innovation, research and professional development processes.
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Learning Activities, Action Research, Innovation, Faculty Development, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, Interdisciplinary Approach, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Computer Uses in Education, Teacher Collaboration, Educational Innovation, Learning Strategies, Teacher Education Programs, Teacher Educators
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
Audience: Teachers
Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Spain
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