Students as co-creators of curricula: reflections from a research project on links to SoTL Dr Catherine Bovill, Lecturer, Academic Development Unit, University.

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Students as co-creators of curricula: reflections from a research project on links to SoTL Dr Catherine Bovill, Lecturer, Academic Development Unit, University of Glasgow SoTL Symposium, 7 th December 2009, University of Glasgow

Overview Background to research project The research process and the cases studied Making links to SoTL (1-4)

Background to research Students as co-creators/co-producers of their learning (ESU, 2008; McCulloch, 2009; SFC, 2008) Silence about curriculum within HE (Barnett & Coate, 2005) Students passive in the curriculum (Mann, 2008) Most refs to ASP - student feedback informing curricula (e.g. Rumpus, 2009; University of Warwick, 2006) Literature calling for ASP in curriculum design from critical pedagogy and popular education (Darder et al, 2003; Dewey, 1916; Fischer, 2005; Freire, 1993; Giroux, 1983; Rogers and Freiberg, 1969) HE Literature calling for ASP in curriculum design limited Breen & Littlejohn (2000) Language teaching; Samson & Scandrett (1999) Environmental justice; Fischer (2005) Education Active participation in university, representation & learning

Research process Carnegie Research Grant – Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland 3 examples purposively sampled from an earlier study on first year curriculum design (Bovill et al., 2008) Geographical spread – Scotland, Ireland, USA Subject spread – environmental justice, geography, education, First year focus Case study methodology, informed by critical theory

The cases: interview 1 University College Dublin, Ireland (February 2009) Geography, 400 students Retrospective and current design

The cases: interview 2 Elon University, North Carolina, USA (March 2009) Education, 50 students Retrospective and future design

The cases: interview 3 Queen Margaret University Edinburgh, Scotland (March 09) Environmental Justice, 16 students Current and future design (Thanks to wikimedia commons for image of QMU)

SoTL links (1) FINDINGS: Key themes Risk Tutor – student relationship Reflections on my own practice Individuals Institutional context Familiarity/unfamiliarity Expectations

Opening up boundaries between tutors and students You work in a university and you get surrounded by people who should like teaching but who really dont like teaching and dont like students…theyre so stupid, they dont do any work, theyre so lazy…and I think actually, its our problem, because theyre not, theyre smart, theyre engaged, theyre interested. (UCD)

The tutor-student relationship Tutors as gatekeepers to curricula design Relationship as litmus test to motivations of tutor & students Students as experts in student experience Tutors have expert knowledge & control over assessment Tutor and students as learners in joint inquiry (Freire, 1993) The importance of the nature of dialogue (Fischer, 2005; Haggis, 2006) Exposure to rich pedagogical variety - experimentation Liminal moments – key to convincing students of sincerity Is there a curriculum without students? (Barnett & Coate, 2005) Tutors operate within the constraints of a market-driven university system (McLean, 2006; Parker, 2003) Legitimate concerns about handing over control and loss of expertise

SoTL links (2) The research process led to participants… Reflecting on their teaching practice Recognising the need to write up evaluations of their teaching Wanting to go public with their teaching experiences

SoTL links (3) Students as key players in the SoTL community (Mihans et al, 2008) ISSoTL SIG

Genuine participation or tokenism? Danger of participative methodologies being adopted in instrumental ways - tends to result in alienation (Cleaver, 2001; Mosse, 2005) Participation has become a grand narrative Lyotard (1984) warns that we should demonstrate incredulity towards metanarratives. Possible to be methodologically radical but politically conservative (Kane, 2005) - Challenges my own academic practice SoTL links (4)

Reflections on my practice – tutor-student relationship Reflections on their practice – research participants Students as SoTL partners Challenges to my practice – ensuring scholarship and criticality are at the heart of my practice SoTL links (1-4 summary)

Final thoughts… Are the differences between educational research and SoTL really that big?