Pedagogical action research for improving teaching and learning in Higher Education - Part 1
This interactive symposium offers an account of the pedagogical action research that we, a research group of academic practitioners at York St John University, are undertaking, out of a commitment to improve our understandings of how we can improve our teaching and learning. While there is a growing literature on the nature and uses of pedagogical research, little of this literature focuses on how pedagogical research is done by real-life practitioners, how it influences the learning of staff and students working together, and what its systemic potentials may be for institutional research. Our symposium explains how we engage in our action enquiries, offering our descriptions and explanations of practice in the form of our living educational theories (Whitehead 1989), and how these form the focus of our doctoral programmes.
The symposium is innovative in the following ways:
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