Re-imagining Curriculum: Spaces for disruption

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Lynn Quinn
AFRICAN SUN MeDIA, Nov 15, 2019 - Education - 444 pages

 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
Index
419
Notes on contributors
425
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Lynn Quinn is an Associate Professor in the Centre for Higher Education Research, Teaching and Learning at Rhodes University, South Africa. 

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