To the Dissertation and Beyond: Independent Study in the New Undergraduate Curriculum.

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Autor/Urheber	Ainley, Patrick
Institution	University of Greenwich
Titel	To the Dissertation and Beyond: Independent Study in the New Undergraduate Curriculum.
Quelle	In: Compass: Journal of Learning and Teaching; Vol 1, No 2 (2010): Compass: The Journal of Learning and Teaching ; 2044-0081 ; 2044-0073(2012) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
DOI	10.21100/compass.v1i2.26
Abstract	Over the past 30 years social changes have taken place which makes the dialogue of teachers with students as the essential preserve of the higher educational community difficult. This is not only the case for the new universities that have made the most efforts to widen participation. With the decline of industry and the expansion of services, a reformation of social class has re-designated many jobs in what has become the working-middle of society as professional occupations requiring higher qualifications. Partly in response to this pressure for certification, many young people are leaving school and college later with supposedly higher standards but often trained rather than educated, or over schooled but undereducated (A. Ainley, and Allen 2010). Training to meet externally verified competences is also extending into higher education. Paradoxically, considering the hopes invested in it, new information and communications technology has not necessarily helped. While ICT allows access to a mass of information, it has also facilitated a culture of plagiarism and undermined existing expertise by multiplying the possibly verifiable criteria for new knowledge. On top of all this, academics have also often not helped themselves by designing courses which make a virtue of student choice from a range of options that may even deny the possibility of students constructing coherent conceptual totalities related to their fields of study.
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