Current Institution: Edith Cowan University
Fellowship: ALTC Teaching Fellowship at Edith Cowan University
Fellowship Duration: 2010 - 2012
This fellowship addresses the significant issue of leadership. Its primary focus is developing leadership skills in undergraduate students. This is an area that has been under-researched and -debated in recent work about graduate attributes, generic skills, and work integrated learning. The fellowship will research, refine and trial an innovative approach that promotes leadership knowledge, leadership skills and leadership in action. The student program will be delivered through retreat workshops and work-based student projects directly related to their academic studies. The program aims to equip students with skills and insights that will help them to lead, inspire and positively influence their professions and workplaces. It will adopt a model of distributed leadership to conduct trials across diverse disciplines and professions in four Australian universities. This approach has the great advantage of also enhancing the leadership capacity of students and university teachers by engaging them in critical debate, reflection and feedback around the application of the leadership model in their own context.
Disciplines: Cross-disciplinary
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.