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Lecturers' approaches to teaching and their relationship to conceptions of good teaching
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Kember, D and Kwan, K-P, Lecturers' approaches to teaching and their relationship to conceptions of good teaching, Instructional Science: An International Journal of Learning and Cognition, 28, (5) pp. 469-490. ISSN 0020-4277 (2000) [Refereed Article]
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© 2000 Kluwer Academic Publishers.
DOI: doi:10.1023/A:1026569608656
Abstract
Previous research has established a close link between students'conceptions of learning, approaches to study and learning outcomes.Until recently, there have been few studies of lecturers' approaches toteaching in higher education and their relationship with conceptions ofteaching. This study aimed to characterise the alternative approaches toteaching of university lecturers, and to examine the relationshipbetween lecturers' approaches to teaching and their conceptions of goodteaching. This study adopted an open naturalistic approach. Seventeenlecturers in three departments in a university were selected forinterview based on their rank, years of teaching and industrial orprofessional experience. Lecturers were interviewed individually abouttheir conceptions of good teaching, motivational strategies andeffective teaching. The interview records were then content analysed bythe two researchers of the study. The study found that (a) it waspossible to characterise lecturers' approaches to teaching with onemotivation and five strategy dimensions; (b) the conceptions of teachingof the lecturers were best described by two main orientations oftransmissive and facilitative teaching; (c) lecturers who conceivedteaching as transmitting knowledge were more likely to usecontent-centred approaches to teaching, while those who conceivedteaching as facilitative tended to use learning-centred approaches. Thestudy concludes by suggesting that fundamental changes to the quality ofteaching and learning are unlikely to happen without changes tolecturers' conception of teaching.
Item Details
| Item Type: | Refereed Article |
|---|---|
| Research Division: | Education |
| Research Group: | Curriculum and pedagogy |
| Research Field: | Curriculum and pedagogy theory and development |
| Objective Division: | Education and Training |
| Objective Group: | Teaching and curriculum |
| Objective Field: | Pedagogy |
| UTAS Author: | Kember, D (Professor David Kember) |
| ID Code: | 129407 |
| Year Published: | 2000 |
| Web of Science® Times Cited: | 274 |
| Deposited By: | Education |
| Deposited On: | 2018-11-28 |
| Last Modified: | 2018-12-18 |
| Downloads: | 0 |
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