Current Institution: Queensland University of Technology
Fellowship: ALTC Senior Teaching Fellowship at Queensland University of Technology
Fellowship Duration: 2006 - 2008
The learning outcomes of higher education need to be relevant to an increasingly unpredictable and irregular social world in which supply and demand is neither linear nor stable, and labour is shaped by complex patterns of anticipations, time and space (Bauman, 2004). Undergraduate students who are seeking employment in this world will need to be able to combine functionality and aesthetics in new and value-adding ways (Pink, 2005). A creative workforce capability required to function optimally in this changing landscape is the ability to edit reality to organise and re-organise it to create new meanings rather than regurgitating content knowledge (Lessig, 2005). Creativity-focused pedagogy responds to this challenge by eschewing long-winded content delivery in favour of more experimental and error-welcoming modes of pedagogical engagement (Zull, 2004). This Fellowship seeks to identify actual instances of such teaching practices in order to understand how such practices can be developed, supported and enhanced more broadly across undergraduate programs.
Disciplines: Creative Arts, Learning innovation, Undergraduate, Workforce
The Australian Learning and Teaching Fellows’ network (ALTF) was established in 2011 with support from the Australian Government Office for Learning and Teaching. The network comprises over 100 scholars who are well placed geographically, institutionally and within their discipline communities to promote and sustain effective learning and teaching in Australian higher education, now and into the future.
The Australian Learning and Teaching Fellows’ network (ALTF) was established in 2011 with support from the Australian Government Office for Learning and Teaching. The network comprises over 100 scholars who are well placed geographically, institutionally and within their discipline communities to promote and sustain effective learning and teaching in Australian higher education, now and into the future.