Teaching and Learning in Contemporary Religious Studies
The Religious Studies Project
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The Challenges in Teaching and Learning
There are some major challenges in teaching and learning in our education. There is a huge emphasis on employability, huge emphasis on instrumental outcomes. You need to have a sophisticated and subtle tool to measure teaching quality. I think t t that will be problematic amongst a lot of academic speakers.
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Transcript
As we career forward into the twenty-first century, in a context where more and more students have access to higher education, where technology advances at an exponential rate, and where the logics of neoliberalism and management seemingly creep further into every aspect of everyday life, critical reflection about the role of academics in teaching has never been more necessary. In this our first podcast of 2016, Chris was joined by Dr Dominic Corrywright of Oxford Brookes University in the UK, to discuss current developments in higher education pedagogy, the challenges and opportunities that these present for Religious Studies, and some practical examples from Dominic’s own experience.
