ERIC Number: EJ1033054
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2014
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Policy Enacted--Teachers' Approaches to an Outcome-Based Framework for Course Design
Barman, Linda; Bolander-Laksov, Klara; Silén, Charlotte
Teaching in Higher Education, v19 n7 p735-746 2014
In this paper, we report on how teachers in Higher Education enact policy. Outcome-based education (OBE) serves as an example of a governmental educational policy introduced with the European Bologna reform. With a hermeneutic approach, we have studied how 14 teachers interpreted this policy and re-designed their courses. The findings show teachers' enactment of policy framed as different approaches to OBE:" container,""technocratic," "pragmatic" or "ideological." The approaches range from being (1) highly regulated to being autonomous; and (2) from having a teacher-centred orientation to having a student-centred orientation to teaching-learning. Teachers who reinterpreted the policy to fit their learning-centred orientation used it to facilitate a joint development process together with colleagues. Thus, policy may stimulate development of teaching-learning.
Descriptors: College Faculty, Outcomes of Education, Educational Policy, Student Centered Curriculum, College Curriculum, Curriculum Design, Faculty Development, Health Sciences, Foreign Countries, Educational Theories, Semi Structured Interviews, Hermeneutics, Government Role
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Sweden
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