Abstract
Forming Ecologies of Practice: How a Distributed Facilitator Framework (DFF) scaffolds teacher and student partnerships in Career Development Learning (CDL)
The 11th Asian Conference on Education: ACE2019, p.82
The 11th Asian Conference on Education: ACE2019 (Tokyo, Japan, 31/10/2019 - 03/11/2019)
2019
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Abstract
This paper discusses a project where students and educators worked iteratively in collaborative reciprocal relationships to enhance International student experiences in higher education. Here disciplinary knowledge and appropriate pedagogies are inextricably linked, emergent and meaningful, demonstrated through carefully articulated creative encounters. The Teaching International Student (TIS) Project was planned within in a Distributed Facilitator Framework (DFF) that encompasses activities, events, resources, ‘Student as partners’ projects and a growing independent Community of Practice (CoP). The theories that underpin the DFF model, includes the Iceberg Model of surface and deep culture (Kruger, 2013) and the ‘Ecologies of Practice’ concepts of Kemmis and Heikkinen (2011) and Snepvangers & Rourke (2017). The DFF was created to visually capture an interconnected series of processes and events that utilised the Kemmis et al’s (2011) characteristics of ‘sayings, doings and relatings’. An Action Practitioner Research methodology was developed over a one-year cycle that includes follow-up reflective practice activities. The project has been evaluated utilising high-level positive educator-led evidence that does not rely on one-off surveys and instead explores other ways of longitudinally capturing qualitative data that takes into account the iterative nature of learning and teaching. Evidence of shifts in practice through pre and post reflection survey data within and outside each activity and event is a key focus of the evaluative process. The outcome demonstrates ways of capturing and disseminating holistically new Career Development Learning (CDL) in professional educator practice through showcasing, evaluating and the adaption of good practice in a variety of disciplinary contexts.
Details
- Title
- Forming Ecologies of Practice: How a Distributed Facilitator Framework (DFF) scaffolds teacher and student partnerships in Career Development Learning (CDL)
- Creators
- A Rourke - University of New South WalesK Snepvangers - University of New South Wales
- Publication Details
- The 11th Asian Conference on Education: ACE2019, p.82
- Conference
- The 11th Asian Conference on Education: ACE2019 (Tokyo, Japan, 31/10/2019 - 03/11/2019)
- Publisher
- The International Academic Forum (IAFOR)
- Number of pages
- 1
- Identifiers
- 991012935600202368
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Education
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Abstract