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Professor Bruce Macfarlane
Bruce Macfarlane is Professor of Higher Education at the University of Portsmouth (UK) where he is also the Head of Academic Development. He has published widely in the field of academic ethics where his books include Teaching with Integrity (2004), The Academic Citizen (2007) and Researching with Integrity (2009). He is the Vice Chair of the Society for Research into Higher Education and a Senior Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy.
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This interactive seminar will engage participants in thinking through the way the university curriculum should be designed. A dialogue sheet will be used to structure group discussion based on questions concerning its politics, purposes, principles and priorities. Participants will consider the tension between 'academic rule' and a stakeholder model; the role of cognitive, affective and skill-based aims; the pedagogic and social principles that underpin curriculum design; and which principles can be realistically prioritised in a crowded modern curriculum. Differences between disciplinary perspectives will be drawn out though dialogue sheet discussion.
Among the questions to be considered during the seminar are the following:
To what extent should faculty or a wider group of stakeholders determine the curriculum?
What are the aims of the curriculum and how should we balance knowledge acquisition with the development of skills and values?
What pedagogic principles should underpin the design of a curriculum?
What principles should be prioritised?
What kind of graduate do we want to produce?
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25 Jan 2010 Mon
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2:30pm - 4:00pm |
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Room 405, William M.W. Mong Engineering Building
(next to Ho Sin-Hang Engineering Building)
(H32 on Campus Map)
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