In scholarship and research, having a “problem” is at the heart of the investigative process . . . [b]ut in one’s teaching, a “problem” is something you don’t want to have . . . How might we think of teaching [and learning] practice, and the evidence of student learning, as problems to be investigated, analysed, represented, and debated?
Randy Bass The Scholarship of Teaching: What’s the Problem?
The Researching Students Study Group was launched at the 2006 BSA Annual Conference and will run in conjunction with the Society for Research into Higher Education's Student Experience Network. The aim of the group is to rethink learning and teaching by reconfiguring them as research problems requiring exploration as the epigraph suggests and, crucially, to bring students into dialogue with us about addressing these problems. Involving students in researching their experience as students is essential to a greater appreciation of learning and teaching and, equally importantly, can, as Neary put it, “have a significant impact on the quality of student learning, as well as giving students a sense of the potential of their subjects”.
(Mike Neary, Director, The Reinvention Centre for Undergraduate Research, Department of Sociology, University of Warwick - 2004)
Forthcoming Events
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Contact the Convenor:
Dr Joyce Canaan
School of Social Sciences
Faculty of Law, Humanities, Development and Society
University of Central England
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