Monthly Archives: Sep 2016
EDEV_505 Week 7_2
If an organisation wishes to encourage triple-loop learning according to Tosey, Visser and Saunders’s (2011) interpretation of Bateson’s third order learning, most, if not all, aspects of an organisation may be considered as a type of evidence. A serious level … Continue reading
EDEV_505 Week 7_1
It’s interesting that graduate students in psychology don’t engage in inter-student counselling. One would have thought that the chance to practice would be exciting, just as in my own graduate studies in music, we students always formed groups with each … Continue reading
EDEV_505 Week 6_2
Thanks for your questions. I am not familiar with the notion of a pathway. How does this differ from streaming? (Just to keep the conversation clear and I think that we’re on the same page here anyway, streaming in this … Continue reading
EDEV_505 Week 6_1
Because of my recent job change, I find myself in a bit of a bind regarding the tasks for this week. I had selected in week 2 an issue that currently affects my present job, but I was not in … Continue reading
EDEV_505 Week 3_3
You ask some very intriguing questions about my teaching context. To answer them all fully would take a monograph, and as this week is about policy, I’ll try to relate my answer to the limited scope of how policy effects … Continue reading
EDEV_505 Week 3_1
Kurt Lewin gave us these two inspirational sentiments: “There is nothing so practical as a good theory.” “If you want truly to understand something, try to change it.” (Van Vliet, 2013) As theory underpins all social science research (Gray, 2004; … Continue reading
EDEV_505 Week 2_6
Your third point about student employability raises questions about the nature of vocational and general study. Yesterday, the OECD blog (van de Werfhorts, Forster & Bol, 2016) addressed the question that if vocationally trained students have a head-start on career opportunities, might they lose out … Continue reading
EDEV_505 Week 2_5
Thanks for this resource. It points to a digital future of education in which the learning experience reflects the digital natives’ expectations, needs and predilections in the new age. Being an in-house publication for the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), … Continue reading
EDEV_505 Week 2_4
Your experience of globalisation has been a positive and powerful one. That you could develop your outlook to include an international perspective was evident in your successful publishing experiences. Congratulations! You will note that I used both ‘globalisation’ and ‘international’ … Continue reading
