Re-imagining Curriculum: Spaces for disruptionLynn Quinn The book argues that academics, academic developers and academic leaders need to undertake curriculum work in their institutions that has the potential to disrupt common sense notions about curriculum and create spaces for engagement with scholarly concepts and theories, to re‑imagine curricula for the changing times. Now, more than ever in the history of higher education, curriculum practices and processes need to be shared; the findings of research undertaken on curriculum need to be disseminated to inform curriculum work. We hope the book will enable readers to look beyond their contextual difficulties and constraints, to find spaces where they can dream, and begin to implement, innovative and creative solutions to what may seem like intractable challenges or difficulties. |
Contents
1 Why the focus on curriculum? Why now? | 1 |
Recontextualisation identity and selfcritique in a postapartheid university | 23 |
Reflections on an institutional curriculum review process | 45 |
4 Disrupting single stories through participatory learning and action | 65 |
Creating critical spaces for alternative possibilities in curriculum design | 87 |
6 Transforming curriculum development through cocreation with students | 107 |
Currents of disruption and congruence in a collaborative process | 127 |
The disrupting interview as a decolonising practice | 149 |
A departments experience in South Africa | 259 |
Academic developers as curriculum collaborators in technical contexts | 283 |
Unrolling the scroll for academic staff | 307 |
Towards an epistemology of uncertainty | 325 |
Curriculum renewal at a researchintensive university | 345 |
18 Academic development insights into decolonising the Engineering curriculum | 363 |
19 Creating spaces for the emergence of new realities in science curriculum thinking | 387 |
20 Cognitive justice and the higher education curriculum | 403 |
9 Reconfiguring academic development through feminist new materialist and posthuman philosophies | 171 |
Reshaping the instructional design process | 193 |
Towards an understanding of the interplay of barriers and agency in academics educational technology practices | 217 |
12 Reimagining curriculum development and the role of academic developers in a university of technology in the postcolonial setting | 235 |