Teaching undergraduate students as researchers and the relationship to powerful knowledge Seminar
- Date:
- 5 October 2017
- Venue:
- University of Southampton School of Education
Event details
In this seminar I will examine the concept of ‘powerful knowledge’ for higher education in the context of teaching undergraduate students as researchers. The key to attaining powerful knowledge is ‘epistemic access’ to the discipline and powerful knowledge is both an outcome and part of the process of education. A model is presented in which there is the possibility of powerful action after graduation that questions the limits of a lecturer’s responsibility. Powerful knowledge may be a more appropriate objective for learning in universities and could replace the over-specified lists of skills and attributes currently in vogue.
Speaker information
Professor Tony Harland , University of Otago, New Zealand. Professor of higher education and the Head of the Higher Education Development Centre at the University of Otago, New Zealand. His research focuses on the purposes of a university education and he has published widely on student learning, assessment and values in higher education.