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Pedagogical Research: How not to reinvent the whee l

Pedagogical Research: How not to reinvent the whee l. The Higher Education Academy.

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Pedagogical Research: How not to reinvent the whee l

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  1. Pedagogical Research: How not to reinvent the wheel

  2. The Higher Education Academy The Higher Education Academy (HEA) is committed to improving the student learning experience by raising the status of teaching, adding to the body of knowledge relating to pedagogy, enhancing professional teaching practice, and facilitating networks and communities of practice. The Higher Education Academy Strategic Plan, 2012-2016

  3. What does it look like? Student responses to Creative Writing: Coherence, Progression and Purpose This set of pages forms the major project output of the research into student expectations of doing Creative Writing at the undergraduate level conducted during 2007-8 by Dr Steve May, Head of Department, Bath Spa University. http://www.english.heacademy.ac.uk/explore/projects/archive/creative/cwstudproj/index.php

  4. Research needs funding, sometimes • Funding Opportunities • Applying for a HEA Teaching Development Grant (TDG) can help gain recognition for the innovative work you do with your students and/or provide seed money for a larger project.

  5. Sharing ideas and practice • Workshops, Seminars, Conferences • Attending some of the many different types of events that the HEA organises is one way to learn about how others teach and what pedagogical research is in development. It can also help you to develop as a teacher.

  6. Upcoming HEA events - FREE 2 April Digital Literacies: Building learning Communities in the Humanities, Liverpool 7 AprilTeaching Screenwriting: Creativity, Innovation and Professional Practice, Salford 8 April, Teaching Landscape Writing: Interdisciplinary Approaches & Innovations, MMU Cheshire Crewe, 29 April, Towards a postcolonial pedagogy: Engaging with literary representations of ‘race’, racism and ethnicity, Reading

  7. Upcoming HEA events – fee! 1 May The Transatlantic – Towards a Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Liverpool 2-3 June Heroes and Monsters: extraordinary tales of teaching and learning in the arts and humanities, Manchester 17 June Teaching War & RemembranceLondon *CFP Deadline 31 March*

  8. Have an idea? • Discipline specific pedagogical research • Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL)? • What might youdo?

  9. Nicole’s contact information • Email: nicole.king@heacademy.ac.uk • Twitter: @DrNicoleKing • Mobile: 07989 434 003

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